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<p>When I entered law school in 2011 few of my classmates knew all that much about what was going on. The information was out there, sure, but to get at it you first had to doubt what your school was telling you. Maybe they’d heard about a downturn in the legal market (though I doubt it) but they’d heard about it in the background of the Great Recession. Law didn’t stand out from any of the other collapsing industries without doing quite a bit of digging. My natural cynicism helped me out there but many of my classmates were not so lucky. I’m not sure why we think they should be. After all, we’ve been teaching them for years to trust their parents and teachers and both those groups were selling law school quite hard. Is our argument seriously going to be “Ignore what those people who have led and guided you your whole life are saying, I’m from the internet”?</p>
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<p>Being more perceptive than most. As for that “shouldn’t be a lawyer” business, I think it misses the point. It’s not about whether a person is well suited for a given profession, it’s about whether the circumstances that led them where they are warrant sympathy. Whether the people should or shouldn’t be lawyers I can’t say, but I think it’s reasonable to point out that a lot of what led and still leads people into law school has nothing to do with the given student.</p>