Posted on 09/03/2009 9:53:58 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Another View: Lock the Law School Doors
September 2, 2009, 10:00 am
Dan Slater, a former litigator, argues that there are too many places at too many law schools, especially with the current hiring slump at law firms.
This summer, in the staid world of legal education, where curriculum is uniform and scholars are trained in the art of like-mindedness, one dean hatched a contrary plan.
In a memo to incoming students, Patricia D. White, the dean of University of Miami School of Law, surmised: Perhaps many of you are looking to law school as a safe harbor in which you can wait out the current economic storm. She then urged them to think hard about their plans and offered incentives for those willing to defer for one year.
The nature of the legal profession is in great flux, Dean White observed. It is very difficult to predict what the employment landscape for young lawyers will be in May 2012 and thereafter.
(Excerpt) Read more at dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Leave musty reports,
and forsake the king's courts,
Where dulness and discord
have set up their thrones;
Burn Salkeld and Ventris,
with all your damned entries,
And away with the claret
"A bumper, Squire Jones!"
Open new medical schools and close 1/2 the law schools!
Meaning that with a modicum of intelligence and a good teacher, what an engineer learns is needed, and valued, anywhere. What a lawyer learns is only good in the nation where he learned it.
Good post!
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