I grew up in the 1980s, when it seems that everyone wants to be a lawyer, like those on LA Law. The 1980, 1990 and 2000 (up until 2007) was the era of the biggest when the promise of salary $ 100,000 to $ 160,000 is, it seems to have extended to anyone who graduates from 20 schools a top and to the many people graduating from a top 50 law school with grades and clerkships great.
Even in a bad economy before - 1990 to 1992, 1998-2000 - legal profession seems to survive, if not thrive. Hundreds of thousands of people are smarter (and even less smart) are encouraged to become a lawyer, with a combination of salary strong - in 2007 Cravath, one of the law firms, corporations peak in this country has to offer prize money of nearly 100,000 $ for top associates performing - loans subsidized federal student, security assumptions of professional protection (with exam bar their own) and the prestigious putative (see John Grisham any novel).
Indeed, the reality of all that is always a little suspect. While a law Grad back top 20 today can expect to earn six figures - unless he chose to go into public interest law, many graduates are not lucky. And while it's very highly thought of himself as a constitutional lawyer or a sentence from the novel Grisham, this, day-to-day practical experience of lawyers have always been (and still is) to grind.
Moments of glory, there are not many. Do not get me wrong, I enjoy the practice of law and enjoy helping customers. And, as my father would say that it's better than digging a ditch. But the day to day practice of law is not out of a movie script. It involves helping people with Dwi, the burden of drugs or theft or embezzlement. Most rare but high-profile lawyer in trials involving murder movie stars!
The need for law school and school of government subsidies has led to the growth of the industrial sector has helped by publishing such notification United States with its ludicrous. School has become the financial center of the University of profits (such as successful), and in many cases are required to kick back money to the central university administration to help underwrite the remainder of the less profitable parts of the university.
The cost is passed on new graduates and eventually, the use of legitimate in the form of high legal fees, especially in corporate law.
Who benefited? One of the beneficiaries is the University Law School. Faculty members usually a decent law school that has next to no practical experience. The person who has to go to a top law school applied for one or two years and then went out into the job market academy at the age of 28 or 29 to get a college job. Some law professors who keep up their practical skills by working Pro Bono legal or consulting on the side.
Most law professors know precious little about what it means to become a lawyer, and they are really proud of this. That's because the rest of the universities always look at the law school (and business schools), a trade school. Since the law professors do not want to think that they are participating in a technical vocational school they tried to stay away from the practice of law.
Second, the actual curriculum associated with law school, little changed from 1930, when it focuses on the 19th century common law concepts or ideas or bug ancient property laws. These policies have very little to do with material possessions, basic error or criminal law is applied in modern America. Most of the law is the law, the law is not simple, however.
As if excusing their ability lags significantly trained lawyer, a law professor and a dean of the law school, love to tell the disciples that they did not teach you how to become a lawyer, which they train you how to think like the approach the lawyer through the Socratic one.
In fact, "thinking like a lawyer" is a good idea. That means all think carefully about the problem. Yes, it requires a bit of discipline. But it is not difficult, and does not require three years of school.
Problems with the law - which has always been trained not effective at the lawyer - is that it was built in the center - a Professor of law - those who would fight like heck to keep the privileged position of his or her.
Law School has been experiencing a boom in the last 4 years, as routinely happens when the economy takes a dive. That's because rather than go out into the job market, one unfamiliar to many of the students who have completed college, young new (and even professionals Central) decided to go to school in the hope of improving their work. (What they are doing often is increasing its debt load without reasonable hope of paying back those loans. So the tone to make student loan discharge in bankruptcy!)
But as the market legally continue to suffer, even in comparison to other parts of the economy, students potentially going to take another path and go back to the other kind of career, despite a career, those are less reward financially because of the amount of money it takes to go to school for three years, there is too much consideration paid.
In recent conversations with lawyers, I had heard about how even top law schools with their students. That has put the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, which is a good law school, but not a great law school in a position that is very difficult.
If the University of Virginia (Law School top 10) have trouble putting a third of the students in its law firm top position what is not meant for UNC- company Ch non-prestigious and well that there are situations, unfortunately, of being in a state with only two markets legal-sized Intermediate (Charlotte and Raleigh) and compete with law school well, including Duke (although Duke tends to send students out of state) and wake forest as Mr. Campbell (who is underrated a school that trained graduates its better than UNC) and North Carolina Central (which is the best price for the legal education in the state and well-trained lawyers).
Students who graduate from UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina to have allowed the law school that has not yet completely disappeared, but its privileged position will begin to erode. The privileged position of the law school.
So what will happen to law school? First Dean smart schools will abandon the pretense that law school is not business school. They will capture the whole idea that the curriculum should be revised to focus on the practical skills necessary to implement this law.
Law School will then need to adjust, bust, study to reflect the potential earnings actually associated with degrees and increasing competition from road option of learning how to apply the laws and decreased demand for such people to know that becoming a lawyer is not a financial reward as it used to.
The final will be started to make an effort to change the way that is professionally managed. Most require the state bar three years of legal education. This will be under attack as more people realize that this is absurd on its face.
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