Posted on 03/19/2016 7:51:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A well-respected law professor is predicting that a top law school will close in the next few years.
"In 2 to 4 years, a university administration will shut down a top law school and we may never see it coming," Dorothy A. Brown, a professor of tax law at Emory University School of Law, wrote in a column for Forbes on Thursday.
Brown previously predicted the demise of law schools last year, citing a declining legal job market.
Now Brown is doubling down on her predictions. Because law school is no longer a safe bet to landing a lucrative legal job, first-year (1L) applications have been sinking at many schools.
In an interview with Business Insider last year, Brown said that, "Most people at top-50 law schools think this is a fourth-tier or a third-tier problem, and I think that misses the mark."
Even at top-tier law schools, like Yale and Harvard, applications are down 13% and 18% respectively between 2011 and 2015. At Columbia, the problem is even more acute: Applications are down 25% over the same time period, according to the American Bar Association.
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OK
Do we need to say bye?
On line edumaction is improving and professors are increasingly less financially efficient as class loads drop and administrators increase.
They need to close down a few journalism schools too.
Personally, I think we already have all the lawyers that we need right now. Probably too many.
This has been a career concern since 2001, if not before.
The number of people with law degrees without law careers is staggering. I had considered it (took the LSAT), and discarded the idea when I heard about the problems getting jobs. And I was already at one of these top 50 law schools.
Ten bucks says every one of these law schools is simply lowering their standards and admitting students who never could have gotten into those schools ten years ago.
Why stop there? Add idiotic liberal arts majors like African Studies or gay Studies. My aunt is from a top Ivy League medical school and their applications are way down too. I believe it’s the tuition too.
Law schools should be rolled into the Schoolz of Social Justice Studies....
I am trying to shed a tear....but it just ain’t happenin’.
Folks, do you have $5, $10, or $90,000 to help us?
You don’t want to see more good kids ruined by law school, do you?
Do you want to condemn more fine young American kids to a life of avarice and bickering?
Send what you can, now, to the Send A Lawyer To Plumbing School Fund.
Instead of stirring up shirt, we teach them how to send the shirt down the drain.
Contribute now!
If we could get about 85% of the law schools to close, we’d be better off.
I get the idea she has a PARTICULAR law school in mind.
Princeton? LOL
> law school is no longer a safe bet to landing a lucrative legal job
Law school also ridiculously expensive.
Yes, I considered releasing them back into their natural habitat... but as long as we have them rounded up, well.
We do not currently have enough money to pay for any pain medication or anesthesia. That' OK too.
Would any FReeper like to "sponsor" an attorney?
We also take nominations...
What do lawyers produce? If we could only figure out how to export them, then maybe the L school could stay open.
.....If we could get about 85% of the law schools to close, we’d be better off...
However, a big decrease in the amount of solo practitioners would lead to a big increase in legal fees. Not a small one, but a huge one. And there are lots of legal matters a layman just isn’t equipped to handle. Not even with Internet assistance.
There are many good, conscientious lawyers out there. People who actually put the clients needs ahead of their own checkbook. The hard part is finding them because they are interspersed with the Saul Goodmans. But, they are out there.
I think you are correct. Got to get the $$$$
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