No Wonder Most Lawyers Are Socialists

LSAT Test | 02/03/2004 | WayneShrugged

[wayne_shrugged]

Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) essay question from 1988:

"Community Hospital, serving a population of 150,00 people, has received a large federal grant to improve its facilites. Write an argument supporting one of the following proposals for use of those funds. Two considerations guide your decision:

1. Funding is only adequate to institute one of the programs under consideration and future funding cannot be anticipated.

2. Community Hositpal is committed to meeting the needs of the community it serves. Specifically, the community has a large population of people in retirement and has numerous, haszardous industrial plants.

One proposal calls for the development of a complete coronary care facility. This would enable Community Hospital to be the second hospital in the area with the capabilities to perform major heart surgeries and to provide total critical care and rehabilition programs for its patients with heart disease. Community proposes to use the funds to hire a cardiovascular specialist to head and develop this program and several full-time professionals to start it: six nurses, a psychologist, a dietician, and a physical therapist, all with expertise in cardiac care. The complete program will include an eight-bed cardiac care unit and an operation room specifically designed and equipped for cardiac surgery. The grant is large enough to build and equip the facilities and to pay the cardiovascular specialist's salary for one year.

The second proposal is for Community to add a trauma center: a specially designed unit to handle severe emergencies from auto crashes, burns, occupational accidents, etc. No other hospital within a one hundred mile radius has a trauma center. The hospital proposes to use some of the funds to equip the emergency room with special monitoring units, surgical facilites, and x-ray equipment. Another portion of the funds will be used to purchase a helicopter, to outfit it with the necessary equipment, and to pay the salaries, for one year, of three nurses who are trained in trauma procedures. The grant will also cover the cost of contracting with a private pilot for a year and for training other staff nurses to work in the unit. Community will, hoever, need to raise its own funding to bring on staff a physician who is trained to work in a trauma center."

[wayne_shrugged]

I ran across my OLD LSAT essay question; I took this 12/03/1988. I was amazed at the logical consequences of the essay question which all potential applicants to law school had to answer -- I'm interested in your feedback re: the inherent socialist slant to the set-up...

[longtermmemmory]

I think it is a set up by law professors to identify the more socially liberal. However, I don'[t think the law schools saw the actual essay, just the score.

Today with a 1 applicant for every first year seat in the nation, favoring leftis only is a top tier law school issue.

[wayne_shrugged]

True, I think most schools just see the score. But the inherent direction of the question doesn't even question whether or if the federal government *should* be involved with medicine to begin with. Of course, at the time I took the test, with sweaty palms, I didn't even process what the underlying assumptions were/are...

[wayne_shrugged]

Vanity bump for me! I got carpal tunnel syndrome typing all that crap in, so I want some feed-back guys! LOL!

[cyborg]

As Mark Levine asks on his show, 'are you a slip-n-fall lawyer'?

[secret garden]

lawyer ping

[dwills]

i graduated law school in 1992, so i probably took the lsat just before this offering

i'm certain that they didn't score the essays when i took it, but merely sent them to the schools along with the multiple choice score

socialist lawyers are the ones who didn't have to take on a mortgage-sized debt to get through or were able to pay theirs off within 5 years due to the generosity of family or extremely fortunate earnings

[BroncosFan]

As of 1997, the essay was deemed irrelevant. Write complete sentences and you're fine.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bump and a bookmark for a later read. Can you say "John Edwards, Socialist, Democratic Presidential Candidate"?!

[Timesink]

Today with a 1 applicant for every first year seat in the nation, favoring leftis only is a top tier law school issue.

Is that an increase or decrease in demand? Please tell me it's a decrease and the market's getting oversaturated.

[AmericanVictory]

It is not that most lawyers are socialists, it's that most legal academics are.

[longtermmemmory]

there are new law schools opening up. ANYONE who wants to become a lawyer can. They many not get into and IVY league school, but they get into a law school which lets them sit for any bar exam.

[Brian Allen]

<< Can you say "John Edwards, Socialist, Democratic Presidential Candidate"?! >>

Nope.

But I can say, "slick and oily rule by 'law' standover and shakedown merchant."

Does that rate a pass?

[JudgemAll]

What do those proposals have to do with law? It seems to me to be more of an engineering or Industrial Engineering problem.

[JudgemAll]

.... ah yes, but again, progressists always mix up laws of science with that of people....

[JudgemAll]

.... so that I sense they want indeed the essay to point to the social justice needs of building such a facility or shelter.... reversing the client/provider relationship, where the client becomes responsible for production and the industrialist responsible for guessing or anticipating demand with a crystal ball looking in the head and other organs of the provided.....

Welcome to the mad and criminal world of socialists where everything is upside down.. .

[JudgemAll]

I personaly would go with the second proposal. The first one is mostly socialistic and redundent care, while the second one seems to point to a business incentive need requiring brute force Government funding to add to the creation of further health highways in the community, all of which could be strategicaly beneficial in cases of emergencies, FEMA, 911 and type civil defense....

[driftless]

My fiancee's daughter got her law degree from U-Minn two years ago. Although she herself is extremely liberal, apparently she was not nearly as leftist as many of her classmates. The great majority of her classmates, she said, were exceptionally anti-police and anti-Israel.

[Teacher317]

It is not that most lawyers are socialists, it's that most legal academics are.

VERY well put. I will be finishing my JD next year, and I would venture to guess that the student body accurately reflects the nation: 30% liberal, 30% conservative, and 40% who wish both sides would just shut up. The faculty is about 40% liberal, 20% ultra-liberal (and have had their lunacy posted on FR), 10% conservative, and 30% unknown.

[dwills]

write relevant sentences and i'm sure you'll still be an ass

my post was directed at and responded to the assertion that essays were scored during the era when i took the lsat

learn not to confuse a refusal to capitalize and punctuate a brief internet post with failure to complete sentences and your ignorance will be less irritating