Unlike many of my fellow law school scambloggers, I don't view the overproduction of JDs as a key issue per se. If tuition was reasonable, or, if the ABA and law school cartel didn't tacitly collude to charge whatever students can borrow and require an ABA accredited degree, then new graduates would't have to ambulance chase or sell-out to corporate firms. Instead, they could assist real people with real problems and afford to charge reasonable fees.
The problem is not lawyers. The problem is not the law. The problem is the law school cartel and the horrific damage they do to the general public, the tax-payer, and the youth of America.
This post is awesome..i've been reading tons of crap posts from other blogs, but shows you have a more educated reader base.
ReplyDeleteI think much of what this post says could also be applied to other professions and graduate school in any number of areas.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons why the oversupply of JDs and people with other advanced degrees, and the astronomical tuition rates, spell disaster for so many graduates is that their educations don't prepare them to do much else. Contrary to what advisers and shills say, most PhDs don't have a lot of transferrable skills. The same is true for JDs, and they have the additional burden of the animus so much of the public has toward lawyers.