This is good news.
He gets it right toward the end. It isn’t just law school. The entire academic industry is non-sustainable with its current model.
Please, oh please let this mean there will be fewer lawyer programs on TV. Enough already.
What do you call 1,000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?
Best bet is to have Daddy or Mommy as a lawyer and use their contacts to find work and KEEP it.
Best bet is to have Daddy or Mommy as a lawyer and use their contacts to find work and KEEP it.
Well, like the old saying goes, Those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach.
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.
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.
The country improves ...
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!
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.
Celebration?
Education is going to have to take a long look at itself. Probably about 80% of courses don’t need to be taught at a formal setting and can be learned by the student, on his time, with only a qualifying test need to be taken to be eligible for the rest of the courses,
I dunno, but it is a helluva good start in the right direction back to prosperity and competitiveness.
And this a problem how?
My law school had some good tenured professors. Who also had some guys who had not published anything, or bought a new tie or sports coat since they got tenure. Their coats no longer closed over their bellies, but since they got tenure in the 1970s, their 10" wide polyester ties covered up their dress shirts where their coats gaped, giving the illusion that their clothes fit better than they did.
Hmmmmm.... let's see. Perhaps we'll have fewer lawyers...?
A father walks into a bookstore with his young son. The boy is holding a nickel. Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face.
The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickel and starts panicking, shouting for help.
A well dressed, attractive and serious looking woman, in a blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the book store.
Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy’s testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand. Releasing the boy’s testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat in the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, ‘I’ve never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor?’
‘No,’ the woman replied. ‘Divorce attorney.’