[longtermmemmory]

Enforcing rule 11 sanctions agains the lawyers who file the cases would bring clarity of mind.

Additionally these universities desperate for money should be stopped from opening law diploma mills.

Does everyone realize ANYONE who wants to be a lawyer is able to find a law school? It is now 1 to 1 applicants to first year seats. There is NO selectivity. (unless conservative, then you have to pay cash.)

[CatoRenasci]

Do you mean to say there is a seat in an accredited law school for every applicant? That would be scary. When I was in law school in the late 1970's in California there were lots of proprietary unaccredited law schools, but their students had to take a 'make or break' "Baby Bar" examination at the end of their first year in order to later be permitted to take the bar examination.

At least the bar examinations (watered down though they may have been) in major states are some sort of barrier to entry for the truly incompetent and stupid. Character and Fitness committees have long since become a joke in judging candidates.

[ought-six]

"Enforcing rule 11 sanctions agains the lawyers who file the cases would bring clarity of mind."

One can file for Rule 11 sanctions all day long, but if the judge disagrees (which is usually the case, since the party seeking sanctions is almost always on the defense side, and is seeking sanctions against the plaintiff's attorney, and the judiciary is virtually owned by the plaintiff's bar), the only party who loses is the party who has to pay the bill of the attorney filing to motionn

[CatoRenasci]

I must say, I have been taken aback at some of the practitioners I've seen who managed to pass the bar on their 5th or 6th attempt after graduating at the bottom of their class at some "East Pottowatomie State Teachers' Normal School College of Law and Animal Husbandry" or equivalent.

Entry to the major law schools remains extremely competitive, however, even more than it was in my day, and even then a 99th percentile LSAT and an A GPA did not assure one's choice of top schools.