Putting the cool back into law school
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You think that after all the complaining about how law schools are taking advantage of a bunch of suckers by selling them the good life after three very expensive years, Above the Law would be supportive of a school that is trying to get students out as fast as possible. So when the Indiana University [...]
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If some legal education is good, more is better right? Most law students and commentators on law schools would disagree with that on two fronts: that some legal education is not, at the moment, good at all, and that the last thing we need is more of it. But what if more legal education came [...]
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Law schools have taken it on the chin over the last year or so. Rising tuition costs and high debt loads are not translating into lawyers that are ready to begin their careers. Law firms attempted to pass the cost of junior associate training on to clients, a system that worked until clients refused to [...]
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One big problem with law school is the lack of an opportunity to decide what type of legal work you want to do until after 2L. During 1L you’re taking very broad and basic courses. During the first summer, you’re working in a job that you won’t come back to for two years at least, [...]
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There’s an assumption that law school has to teach you how to be a lawyer. It’s a reasonable assumption. Law school is a professional school, ergo you should be learning the skills you need to succeed in a profession. There’s a substantial investment of time and money, so the thought is that for that investment [...]
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One of the bigger bees in my bonnet regarding law school has to do with the fact that law schools are at a crossroads. Either they need to embrace their academic roots and stop pitching themselves as a type of trade school, or they need to go the trade school route. It seems Gonzaga has [...]
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