Scholarships for law school?

tomtownsend
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:37:35 +0000

Of course we want our civil engineers to be up to date on the latest techniques and safety measures. The law just isn’t that complicated and what is learned in CLEs is usually useless to clients. If it were up to me all law schools would be abolished and we’d return to the apprentice system. There was less malpractice before we had 200 law schools and anyone with an associates could go to one of Cooley’s multiple franchise campuses (imagine if the AMA permitted such a farce of intake methods). The only people benefitting from law school are professors and administrators, none of whom could command their salaries at a firm.

I use big law percentage as a proxy for a school’s ability to launch your legal career. Without big law, getting desirable in-house jobs is nearly impossible now. Government (federal and state, increasingly non-rural DAs) is more competitive than ever, with many being former big law litigators.

Yes, being an equity partner is a horrible lifestyle. It is like winning a pie eating competition and you find out the surprise prize is more pie. You don’t get that lengthy summer vacation the PE boys get or that payout in stock options. It isn’t worth it.