From time to time, we have the effects that the economy has had on the legal profession. We alerted our readers about the side effects for more recent graduates from 250 schools in the nation right + recognizable. We have often asked the question: Do we really need more lawyers?
The latest development in this area about the profession is the latest proposal from the American Bar Association, the requirement that students entering law school to remove the last.
Is not that sound like a good thing? Many critics have long argued that the only thing this test measures the ability of a standardized test to make. Well, not so fast.
The consensus among experts is that all schools require applicants to continue to take the exam. It should be noted that nearly 10 schools have been granted waivers to allow students without LAST scores.
In the meantime, behind the scenes, the chairman of the ABA said on the entrance exam for the National Law Journal that a significant faction within the Committee that the rule concludes that the law school applicants “through an entrance exam valid and reliable” should be repealed. The Committee is concerned, in part to the appropriate role of ABA in the approval process of the law schools and its indirect approval of the Law School Admission lawyer, well-funded organization that manages LAST.
The proposal to delete the last requirement is the subject of public discussion at the next meeting of the ABA, 2nd April in Chicago.
Last weekend we released ourselves on issues related to the flood of lawyers on our lead from a front-page article in the business section of The New York Times, which has since received much exposure. The proposed ABA has attracted more unwanted attention to the professional training of lawyers.
One of the strikes against the lawyer, is that the process is designed to enrich the impoverished institutions and law student. The Juris Doctor: Students volunteer to submit to the process of impoverishment in exchange for a coveted professional. No law school illustrates this process more than our own Cooley Law School, nor the dramatic negative publicity gets into the blog of tongue-in-cheeky Above the Law, whose most recent post on this application “ABA really all low-ranking law school to do to be Thomas Cooley? “
While acknowledging that most schools will continue the certification shall be used to propose, ATL, that is Cooley, the last, like drop a bad habit of opening the door even further for those who, uh, less qualified applicants legal, it is can afford to pay heavy tuition bills for their chance at the American dream, still a lawyer.
While our economy is flexible and not very tolerant, is not your law school student loan obligation. When the rubber meets the road on this issue is that the positions have occasionally attorney in an overcrowded profession.
