Posted on 11/24/2017 12:46:48 PM PST by reaganaut1
Don Lively had a plan to bring more blacks and Hispanics into the practice of law.
Mr. Lively, a professor who is white, set out to open a law school that would take minority students even if they had low test scores or did poorly in college. Using retirement savings, a loan from his father and a check from a retired couple who read about him in a local newspaper, he opened Florida Coastal School of Law in 1996 in Jacksonville.
That school and two others he later helped run—Arizona Summit in Phoenix and Charlotte School of Law in North Carolina—became among the fastest-growing law schools in the country. Half of their students were from minority groups. The for-profit schools became part of a business network called the InfiLaw System, backed by Chicago private-equity investors. Enrollment soared from several dozen at Florida Coastal in 1996 to roughly 4,000 at the three schools combined in 2012.
Now, two decades after it all started, Mr. Lively’s mission is in tatters. The Charlotte school closed in August after North Carolina revoked its license. Enrollment in Arizona and Florida is down sharply, and InfiLaw is looking for buyers for both schools. Thousands of InfiLaw students have dropped out, transferred or failed state bar exams and are struggling to pay down a total of more than $1 billion in federal student loans, Education Department and American Bar Association data indicate. Many owe more than $100,000.
“The whole system broke down,” says Mr. Lively, 69 years old, who serves as Arizona Summit’s president and owns less than 1% of InfiLaw. “We weren’t ready to deliver on a scaled basis. We haven’t built up our academic support program to a level that would enable us to deliver those things that we were convinced that we could deliver.”
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Hello Marines are government, genius
Hello Marines are government, genius
Have you checked the composition of Congress lately “genius” (right back at yah), it’s 99.9% lawyers. They won’t eat their own.
And by the way, I’m looking at history both recent and ancient. Most truly corrupt governments are “taken out” by their own military. Zimbabwe. Chile. All the way back to the Roman Empire with it’s numerous government takeovers by military governors in control of the Legions.
Good luck hiring prosecuting attorneys for the crimminal justice system, who will opt for private practice after graduation to make enough monry to pay the private loan.
And a lot of useless ones. For every lawyer with A-average grades, there are a dozen with C-average grades, and the mentality to boot. My sister-in-law's boyfriend is a lawyer and always taunts strangers with "I'm a lawyer, I know stuff.". I tell the strangers that he's an idiot that doesn't know common sense. I've challenged him on quite a few topics where I corrected him and he had to back off.
Yeah, but almost all legislators are lawyers. Not every lawyer is cut from the same cloth as Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Yeah, take a lot of candidates who are proven to be unqualified based on LSAT exams, lower standards by recruiting them into newly minted sham law schools, and then scratch your head when they can’t pass the bar exam after being handed a J.D. degree just because they’re “diverse”.
A brilliant business model.
You're right about that (well, you would be if you didn't have the 2nd Amendment) -- and, that was Shakespeare's point too. OTOH, Fiddlstix is using the quote the way that most people do. It helps to put the quote in context:
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Cade: I thank you, good people—there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.
Dick: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Cade: Nay, that I mean to do.
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Cade, the wannabee quasi-communist totalitarian dictator, agrees with useful-idiot Dick the butcher -- if you're going to create a quasi-communist totalitarian utopia, you best start by killing all the lawyers.
Dude, last time I checked the Government was run by and filled with Lawyers. So practicing, some disbarred.
Half the lawyers in this country finished in the bottom half of their class
State Bar Associations are like the mafia and corrupt labor unions. Restrict supply and charge huge amounts of money to enter the profession;and then, don’t dare try to go after corrupt judges and powerful politicians because they will take away your right to practice your profession.
This happens every time a lawyer goes after a corrupt judge.
The racketeers that control the courts do not fear lawyers. They fear non-lawyers who know the law going after them.
“More lawyers mean cheaper lawyers. Supply and demand.”
Reminds me of the case where the only lawyer in town was struggling hand to mouth to make a living . That was until another lawyer moved to town. Result: They both were able to retire wealthy.
St. Atticus, the Virtuous?
A town that can’t support one lawyer can support two.
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