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Law School Enrollments are Plummeting. What Happens Next?
Daily Beast ^ | 01/19/2013 | by Megan McArdle

Posted on 01/19/2013 7:53:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/19/2013 7:53:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This is good news.


2 posted on 01/19/2013 7:58:32 PM PST by Fido969
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To: SeekAndFind
So there is some hope for our country. Less lawyers can only be a good thing. Most FReeper lawyers excluded, of course. :)
3 posted on 01/19/2013 8:00:02 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: SeekAndFind

He gets it right toward the end. It isn’t just law school. The entire academic industry is non-sustainable with its current model.


4 posted on 01/19/2013 8:01:11 PM PST by PAR35
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To: SeekAndFind

Please, oh please let this mean there will be fewer lawyer programs on TV. Enough already.


5 posted on 01/19/2013 8:03:00 PM PST by doc1019
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To: SeekAndFind

What do you call 1,000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?


6 posted on 01/19/2013 8:03:25 PM PST by FredZarguna (A good start.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Best bet is to have Daddy or Mommy as a lawyer and use their contacts to find work and KEEP it.


7 posted on 01/19/2013 8:06:33 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: SeekAndFind

Best bet is to have Daddy or Mommy as a lawyer and use their contacts to find work and KEEP it.


8 posted on 01/19/2013 8:06:47 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, like the old saying goes, Those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach.


9 posted on 01/19/2013 8:06:47 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: FredZarguna

“What do you call 1,000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?”

A good start?


10 posted on 01/19/2013 8:08:10 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I own a weapon to protect my family from those wanting to take that weapon away.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Do kids start rethinking the interesting-but-non-remunerative departments?

The author acts as if they had some other options. Most of the kids in liberal arts and humanities couldn't pass a Calculus course or Comp Sci 101 if their lives depended on it. Their only other option is "government service." Those jobs don't have especially rosy prospects going forward, either.

11 posted on 01/19/2013 8:09:22 PM PST by FredZarguna (A good start.)
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Do kids start rethinking the interesting-but-non-remunerative departments?

The author acts as if they had some other options. Most of the kids in liberal arts and humanities couldn't pass a Calculus course or Comp Sci 101 if their lives depended on it. Their only other option is "government service." Those jobs don't have especially rosy prospects going forward, either.

12 posted on 01/19/2013 8:09:41 PM PST by FredZarguna (A good start.)
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Seriously, the reason law school attendance is plummeting is because the liberal arts majors who used to go to law school are getting dumber by the semester and cannot pass the bar.

Pretty soon Starbucks will be offering legal advice.


13 posted on 01/19/2013 8:10:19 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I own a weapon to protect my family from those wanting to take that weapon away.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The country improves ...


14 posted on 01/19/2013 8:11:08 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Colorado Doug

Lawyers/attorneys have uses and they are tools we use in business, especially when dealing in my industry. Not all are scumbag liberals.

On the other hand, I was just reading my Filipino bud’s weekly newspaper and every page had an immigration attorney pimping their firm.


15 posted on 01/19/2013 8:11:47 PM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I couldn’t think of a good answer, because I assumed they were poached and their fins were taken for soup.


16 posted on 01/19/2013 8:12:45 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Fido969
A double silver lining! At first glance I didn't think about less indoctrination workers liberal professors.
17 posted on 01/19/2013 8:13:10 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: SeekAndFind; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

You won’t be laughing when as a result of this shortage the state legislatures and Congress find themselves unable to pass thousands of new laws each year for you like they are doing now!


18 posted on 01/19/2013 8:13:43 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I was a uni at the height on law school enrollment during the early 80’s. EVERYONE wanted to be a lawyer. So much so.....the uni build a new law school with all of the $$$$ pouring in. The market was saturated. “Paper Chase” really inspired many.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx22TyCge7w

I dated a LS student at the time. Most of them had aspirations in politics. Only good thing to come out of that relationship was 3rd row seats to see THE ““Ronaldus Magnus” speak and I was in awe. ;-) Law students had the prime seats, of course.


19 posted on 01/19/2013 8:16:21 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Yeah. It was in the tag line. I’m having a very hard time seeing a down side to having fewer lawyers.


20 posted on 01/19/2013 8:19:32 PM PST by FredZarguna ("The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry the Sixth Part II, 4.2.71-78)
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