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The Rise and Fall of a Law-School Empire Fueled by Federal Loans
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 24, 2017 | Josh Mitchell

Posted on 11/24/2017 12:46:48 PM PST by reaganaut1

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To: Flick Lives

Hello Marines are government, genius


21 posted on 11/24/2017 3:00:10 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

Hello Marines are government, genius


Have you checked the composition of Congress lately “genius” (right back at yah), it’s 99.9% lawyers. They won’t eat their own.

And by the way, I’m looking at history both recent and ancient. Most truly corrupt governments are “taken out” by their own military. Zimbabwe. Chile. All the way back to the Roman Empire with it’s numerous government takeovers by military governors in control of the Legions.


22 posted on 11/24/2017 3:16:40 PM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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To: reaganaut1

Good luck hiring prosecuting attorneys for the crimminal justice system, who will opt for private practice after graduation to make enough monry to pay the private loan.


23 posted on 11/24/2017 3:29:24 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: marktwain
There are a lot of starving lawyers out there. Some are quite talented.

And a lot of useless ones. For every lawyer with A-average grades, there are a dozen with C-average grades, and the mentality to boot. My sister-in-law's boyfriend is a lawyer and always taunts strangers with "I'm a lawyer, I know stuff.". I tell the strangers that he's an idiot that doesn't know common sense. I've challenged him on quite a few topics where I corrected him and he had to back off.

24 posted on 11/24/2017 3:29:34 PM PST by roadcat
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To: yldstrk
dude, lawyers are the only defense against government overreach and you better wise up

Yeah, but almost all legislators are lawyers. Not every lawyer is cut from the same cloth as Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird."

25 posted on 11/24/2017 4:45:33 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: reaganaut1

Yeah, take a lot of candidates who are proven to be unqualified based on LSAT exams, lower standards by recruiting them into newly minted sham law schools, and then scratch your head when they can’t pass the bar exam after being handed a J.D. degree just because they’re “diverse”.

A brilliant business model.


26 posted on 11/24/2017 4:57:18 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: yldstrk; Fiddlstix
"lawyers are the only defense against government overreach and you better wise up"

You're right about that (well, you would be if you didn't have the 2nd Amendment) -- and, that was Shakespeare's point too. OTOH, Fiddlstix is using the quote the way that most people do. It helps to put the quote in context:

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Cade: I thank you, good people—there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.

Dick: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Cade: Nay, that I mean to do.

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Cade, the wannabee quasi-communist totalitarian dictator, agrees with useful-idiot Dick the butcher -- if you're going to create a quasi-communist totalitarian utopia, you best start by killing all the lawyers.

27 posted on 11/24/2017 5:06:12 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: yldstrk

Dude, last time I checked the Government was run by and filled with Lawyers. So practicing, some disbarred.


28 posted on 11/24/2017 5:54:08 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: roadcat

Half the lawyers in this country finished in the bottom half of their class


29 posted on 11/24/2017 5:56:31 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: reaganaut1

State Bar Associations are like the mafia and corrupt labor unions. Restrict supply and charge huge amounts of money to enter the profession;and then, don’t dare try to go after corrupt judges and powerful politicians because they will take away your right to practice your profession.

This happens every time a lawyer goes after a corrupt judge.

The racketeers that control the courts do not fear lawyers. They fear non-lawyers who know the law going after them.


30 posted on 11/24/2017 6:00:08 PM PST by WASCWatch
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To: Lockbox

“More lawyers mean cheaper lawyers. Supply and demand.”

Reminds me of the case where the only lawyer in town was struggling hand to mouth to make a living . That was until another lawyer moved to town. Result: They both were able to retire wealthy.


31 posted on 11/24/2017 6:39:17 PM PST by Phosgood (Send in the Clowns...but Wait, they're here!! >..<)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

St. Atticus, the Virtuous?
A town that can’t support one lawyer can support two.


32 posted on 11/24/2017 8:25:05 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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