Sunday, January 18, 2015

December 2014

Though the economy has recovered — an 11.2% U-6 is relatively good — one industry seems to lag. At this point you would have to be an idiot to go to law school, which is exactly what is happening. As I type this, seven schools have a first-year class with a median LSAT below 145; these stoodints are in the bottom-quartile of test takers. But wait, there's more! The ABA allows schools to waive the LSAT for up to ten percent of their incoming students. You know, the ones who when asked what they got on their SAT reply, "Drool."

If you think law school has a bad outcome now, wait until a legion of idiots starts failing the bar, squalls online, and the media picks it up and runs with it. Basically, the schools plan to pull the entire "profession" down with them and are laying the groundwork in private. Knowing your students will never pass the bar, you either get rid of it with Diploma Privilege or have the examiners weight the results, all in the name of fairness/opportunity/diversity. The alternative is to acknowledge the academy accepts unqualified students and let John Q. Public think graduates of non-elite law schools are dumb as bricks. Pick your poison.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Not seasonally adjustedNovember20131,138,800
December20131,134,400
January20141,134,800
February20141,138,100-700
Seasonally adjustedNovember20131,135,100
December20131,133,700
January20141,133,700
February20141,134,200-900
Change from Jan-14 to
Feb-14
500

3 comments:

  1. What a "prestigious" profession, huh?!?!

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  2. You're forgetting option C:

    Allow non-citizenship to be fine for entrants, allow bars to practice for non-citizens. This appears to be the plan with LLMs. In fact, the future could be lower law school enrollment and ballooning LLM--via foreigners.

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    1. California already licenses illegal aliens. See this. I agree that the LLM is the future of the scam and it will probably mostly be delivered by distance learning.

      I wonder which law skool will be first to accept tuition in bitcoins?

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