tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23639362535831481532024-02-08T05:13:09.935-08:00Law School Truth CenterLaw School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.comBlogger548125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-76208839459715897562019-10-31T12:00:00.000-07:002019-10-31T12:00:06.331-07:00Shop Closed, Party ContinuesThis blog started over six and a half years ago as a one-off joke adjacent to ITLSS and OTLSS. It had a touch more legs than I thought. The Center developed a small but regular readership of idiots who got it (including, it seems, law schools). Thank you to those of you who read regularly and commented. Making the same joke a few hundred times only works if you know, somewhere, that someone else smirks (or, one supposes, needs a drink).<br />
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<i>It's Halloween: somewhere Dean Satan is hip-hop trick-or-treating with Slick Nick and the Notorious ADCP. He approaches the honors' sorority of a small liberal arts college. They think he's an early puberty child in costume instead of corporate evil incarnate. But it's too late, baby! This is slasher horror. A few quick cuts of the pen and you bitches are the first members of next year's 1L class at a ghoulish fourth-tier law school and the interest is already accruing.</i><br />
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Sorry, old habit.<i> </i><br />
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Truth is, the world's changed, and I don't mean law school - it's still bocoup pricey and run by well-meaning sinecures who, despite their stellar resumes and often excellent intellect, maintain a haughty moat between themselves and real practice to preserve their own relevance.<br />
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Blabber about discounts all you want, obfuscate the data, ignore the casualties, whatever. The modal law student of middle class means still walks away with high five- or six-figure debt with limited means to reasonably pay it off short of entering a narrow range of already-high-in-demand jobs, subject to the whims of empathy-less oligarchs like Betsy Devos on side A and policy reformers on side B who would rather purchase votes from the masses than equitably solve the damn problem.<br />
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No - that's still a shitshow in the Land of Make-Believe. The bottom line - and I think this encapsulates the non-bitter/angry part of the "scamblog" movement - is that we can do much better, and for that matter, the "scamblog" era has been part of a damn good trend: bad law schools closing, enrollments right-sizing; relative to the population, enrollment is way down over recent memory. I really don't like the botched/memed Schopenhauer quote about the stages of truth, but I'll post a translation of one from his actual writings:<br />
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To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.</blockquote>
I think that applies to the "law school truth" movement - Nando et al were pilloried as heretics. I remember ages ago I contacted someone about a "future of law" symposium and including these sorts of discussions and being treated like a leper. Now, most of the criticisms levied at legal education are broadly accepted as problems to be acknowledged - ABA imprimatur and all! - and summarily swept under the rug to be cleaned up another day. To the extent that awareness was ever a goal, that's long done.<br />
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But the bigger elephant in the room at this point is that internet culture has changed. No one reads one-off blogs any more, or even message boards, really; both were in the process of dying when this stuff started. Access has moved to mobile and social media; "platforms" like FB or Twitter have become exclusive islands to themselves to the exclusion of non-conforming or non-viral content. Text is bad; that no one reads is a true cliche. To the extent they do, diverse niche sites have become established enough to drive out a lot of what used to be random people in the wilderness crafting industry-relevant blog content. The algo tech people have driven everyone to an extremely mediocre present.<br />
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All of this has happened in a relatively short period of time, shockingly, really. Mediums and industries now move faster than student loan repayments. <br />
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Frankly, though, I'm also more established in my own career than I used to be, not that I really have security to be this stable in 5 years, but I'm a lot more at peace with it, and it helps that my amount of bad anxiety days have been drastically reduced compared to when I started this thing. More distant from law school, I also don't really care as much as I used to (which is a common trend for authors in these parts) although I still get that interesting-new-case thrill from seeing some new entrant to the rogues' gallery. But then again, I think social media shaming has given inhibition to the type of dean who used to pass brazen idiocy as wisdom with no hint of irony or self-awareness.<br />
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Oh, well.<br />
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I will still check in on OTLSS, police comments (minor annoying reason to close shop: Google doesn't give a shit about spam filtering), etc., may post there if the spirit moves me, but the tank's run out on this side project.<br />
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As a final note, if you have liked my writing or comic style (or stop by here in the future, etc.) and actually read book-ish things, I did publish grown-up juvenalia a while back concerning the legal industry under a different pen name, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lawyer-Fantasy-H-W-Felix/dp/1520906749">Lawyer Fantasy</a>. Various statutes of limitation have now passed, if I'm not mistaken, and I think some of the issues may be more salient now than they were when I wrote the damn thing. I am also full of myself, if you haven't noticed by now, despite pseudonymity, not promoting anything, etc.<br />
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The play was fine otherwise, Ms. Lincoln, and I love my law degree, thanks for asking.<br />
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Best,<br />
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LSTC Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-8488188613013519542019-08-10T12:00:00.000-07:002019-08-10T12:00:04.488-07:00The Scam Movement, Forgotten in South DakotaA decade of observations about the law school bubble <a href="https://www.yankton.net/community/article_eb552734-bb21-11e9-8e03-a7ddf44e9d93.html">means absolutely naught to the good folks in Yankton</a>.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The University of South Dakota School of Law will welcome one of the
largest incoming classes of students in 10 years next Monday, Aug. 12.
Eighty-seven students representing 14 states comprise the Class of 2022.<br />
...<br />
The class also scored strongly on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT)
with both the median and 75th percentile scores improving one point from
last year at 152 and 154 respectively.</blockquote>
Remember all that discussion about "right-sizing" law school? About how a lot of schools were actually admitting that their admissions needed a diet?<br />
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Well, screw that. That argument is as passe as heroin. USD (and others, it seems) is gonna party like it's 2008, which is probably fitting if you've ever seen what they wear to malls in those parts.<br />
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And you know we're back in boom times when the press trumpets a 154 as the "strong" 75th percentile LSAT that it is. For years, pocket-protected nebbishes would have argued against such a premise, but you know what? They're all going to be high-powered lawyers in the end so long as the bar folks burn their caution flags and let the engines roar.<br />
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The "fourteen states" bit... folks, only six states border South Dakota, so that means there's a few of these kids coming a fairly long way to go to a public school in a low-population state. Among other conclusions, that tells me we might need more law schools in the flyover states. Is Texas hungry for another school? Illinois? Colorado need a third? Does Mitchell Hamline need to expand?<br />
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In any event, law school is <b><i>back</i></b>, baby, even though it never left.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-26060620483374505712019-07-30T00:00:00.000-07:002019-07-30T00:00:04.974-07:00California Bar Examiners Respond to Criticism with Convenient Technical GlitchYeah, you know how the bar examiners in California have been getting progressively bitch-slapped harder and harder by law deans in California for failing an ungoldly percentage of would-be Clarence Darrows?<br />
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<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-state-bar-accidentally-leaks-details-upcoming-exam-n1035681">Oops</a>.<br />
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The State Bar of California accidentally
tipped off law school deans about "general subject matter topics" of its
upcoming exam — and now is telling everyone what will be on this week's
career-altering tests, the group announced Sunday.</div>
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The
State Bar normally tells the law schools what topics were covered on
the tests after they're taken by aspiring lawyers each February and
July.</div>
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But
the State Bar revealed this sensitive information was somehow sent out
on Thursday, well ahead of schedule, to 16 law school deans. The
blunder, described as "human error," was only discovered over the
weekend.</div>
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Human error my fuzzy taint. You didn't see this shit happen in Montana or South Carolina. Nope, in California, where law deans have begged and begged for a break from the mercilessness of minimum professional standards, they just gave all of their dopes a chance to ditch certain complex subjects and laser-focus in the last weekend before the bar exam.<br />
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I just hope when the appoint a task force to investigate this security breach it's stocked with law deans, ideally the ones who come up with the most clever excuses for why their students still couldn't pass the bar exam knowing what topics were going to be discussed. Give the token private citizen slot to the lawyer in the article who dropped the b-word.<br />
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Dramatically improved CA pass rate, here we come! Scam on.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-64501164863522570042019-07-22T00:00:00.000-07:002019-07-22T00:00:08.452-07:00Maine Potentially Investing Heavily in Law SchoolOne could argue that Maine is our smartest state. Indeed, I do so here solely because some blue ribbon report <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2019/07/19/report-recommends-sweeping-changes-at-umaine-law-school/">just recommended that Maine invest in its law school</a>. In 2019. <i>In Maine</i>, a state that - the naysayers claim - could probably get by with one law school shared between it and half of New England.<br />
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A report released Friday calls for sweeping changes at the University of Maine School of Law, including the addition of new faculty and administrative positions,
expansion of course offerings and an overhaul of governance and
operational practices.<br />
...<br />
“Maine (School of Law) has already begun to cannibalize core
functions in order to balance budget priorities,” the report says. “If
Maine is to have a law school, then it must be repositioned within three
years, funded and led by a skilled team as soon as possible.”<br />
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University officials Friday did not have an exact figure on how much
it would cost to implement the wide-ranging recommendations of the
report, but James Erwin, chairman of the UMaine System Board of
Trustees, estimated it would require “millions of dollars at least.”</blockquote>
Fuck, boing, yes. Sure, this is sorta like the institutional equivalent of buying your 51-year-old wife breast implants and new cheekbones instead of just leaving her on the curb and embracing swingin' singledom, but you work with what you have.<br />
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The list of suggestions reads like Christmas in July for a law school sycophant. Big, new investment in diversity (read: getting non-white people to move to Maine)? Check. Investment in specifically training lawyers for rural Maine, which has a dreadful lawyer shortage? Check. Expanded tenured faculty and an administrator devoted to fundraising? Big-dick-energy check.<br />
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Of course the article discusses the "financial" "issues" of operating a law school in a remote, small population state. The government isn't giving them nearly enough, admissions have been stagnant, law applicants nationwide are down, blah blah blah. It's had to make tuition concessions to draw new students and the faculty has even gone without cost-of-living increases since <i>2013</i>.<br />
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But fold the cards? No, baby, it's time to go all-in. Student loan money ain't coming in like it used to? Well, time to amp up state funding! Get some new tenured faculty and funnel some o' that ol' internet money or somethin' this way! <br />
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I like the cut of your jib, folks. Tell that blue ribbon task force to go on tour, please. I've got a few more states they can visit... Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-36040049863020094172019-07-15T00:00:00.000-07:002019-07-15T17:29:58.392-07:00Hail, Columbia! The Seven Figure Law School<a href="http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/06/the-400000-law-school">This Campos/LGM post is from a month ago</a>, but I read fine-print books instead of playing with electronic gizmos and sending e-texts when I was younger so my brain works better but not faster, you damn kids.<br />
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Columbia’s law school has passed a fiscal milestone: for the first time,
its estimated cost of attendance for a nine-month academic year will be
in six figures ($101,345 to be exact).<br />
...<br />
Students who borrow the full cost of attendance will owe about $370,000
when the first loan payment comes due six months after graduation.
(This sum is calculated by assuming average historical COA increases
over the next three years, plus accruing loan interest and origination
fees). <br />
...<br />
<i>How much did it cost to do this kind of thing when the heart of </i><br />
<del><i>rock and roll</i></del><i> the baby boom was moving through this and similar institutions?</i><br />
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Inflation-adjusted to constant dollars, about one quarter as much. [Example from1980, blah blah blah]</blockquote>
Turn the amps to 11, 'cause speaking of 1980:<br />
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<i>Hell's bells!<br />Yeah, hell's bells!<br />You got me ringing<br />Hell's bells!<br />My temperature's high<br />Hell's bells!</i></blockquote>
Rock on, motherfuckers, a $100k/year law school! Much like automobile sales, we've long crossed the point where it's "overpriced" and we're in straight-up "DGAF luxury" Lambo et al territory. You want a Daewoo, you little schmeltz? No, you want a Maserati, jet black like your natural hair age 65, with a phat bitch pre-installed in the passenger seat, stick shift only, mmmbaby!<br />
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And with the prestige of a luxury degree like Columbia in a hot, lawyer-hungry market like New York (see my last post), you're sure to be gainfully employed for <i>at least </i>five or six years, more than enough time to pay back any debt. Don't worry, if the long days at Necktie / Noose LLP send you drinkin' like Bon Scott, you'll probably have health care sufficient to cover any <i>incidents</i>. Probably.<br />
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Note that the urbane, progressive Columbia is bucking a distasteful, garish counter-trend to lower tuition in backwater red state hick-holes to "keep the best minds at home" (like any "best minds" would fall for THAT scam!). For example, South Carolina just <a href="http://www.nationaljurist.com/prelaw/south-carolina-law-makes-walmart-and-slashes-tuition">slashed in-state tuition</a> to what must be <a href="https://www.lstreports.com/schools/southcarolina/costs/">unsustainable 2015 levels</a>.<br />
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Losers. When people seek out counsel, they don't want some poser who bargain-shopped. They want a grown-up bambino who knows how to spend money, who has no qualms about dumping cash on people who paid rent-controlled tuition. What better way to show clients that you know how to spend money - and that you're willing to invest in their winning case, if need be - than by plunking down $400k for the premier legal education shared by U.S. Grant, Jr.; David Stern; and Roy Cohn?<br />
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But why stop there? The market obviously is signalling that top legal education has no maximum price. These little bitches will sign over their damned organs for a Manhattan T13 roll-o'-the-dice. Let's steer this branch of the express to 500, 750, and <i>one million dollars</i>. Why not? This ain't no Highway to Hell. The rubber stamp's never been wetter and if you tell people there's only a few law schools that'll get them where they wanna go, they'll throw money at you like fat drunks on a strip club bar crawl who know they'll be dead before the bill comes due, only they'll likely be alive, with models, and bottles, and a suit collection featuring every tone of gray.<br />
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I mean, you might think a $1M cost of attendance is ludicrous, but you, a starch-eating rational grump, thought a $200k cost of attendance was ludicrous and now that's S.O.P. Buckle up, buckaroos, 'cause mixed metaphors be damned we're shiftin' this baby into warp speed. By the light of the <i>Million Dollar Express </i>shall we see light. <br />
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Cue the music, boys:<br />
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<i>I won't take no prisoners, won't spare no lives<br />Nobody's putting up a fight<br />I got my bell, I'm gonna take you to hell<br />I'm gonna get you, [Dean?] Satan get you </i></blockquote>
Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-59519137087846870762019-07-11T00:00:00.000-07:002019-07-11T00:00:01.033-07:00The New York Lawyer ShortageI'm not making this up - it's a real news article/topic - that NEW YORK of all states (what, not Florida?) has a lawyer shortage! You know, "hey, why does that place need so many fucking law schools" New York. "They put the dead ones in Banker's Boxes and no one misses a beat" New York. "Touro Law School sounds made up" New York. That New York.<br />
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God damn I love this industry. Give me a fellowship and let me shoot this shit in my veins, drooling passed out in the stacks of the local law library.<br />
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Here's <a href="https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/07/01/lawyers-retire-move-out-of-rural-upstate-ny-at-alarming-pace/">the article</a> with the golly-shucks lawyer picture (winning sartorial formula: bow-tie, bold belt, no suit; needs suspenders or jeans ideally, B+) and the one-two punch of anecdotal whimsy ("kids 'r' movin' away!") and context-free data (only 1 lawyer for every 1310 residents, Orleans County, how dare you!).<br />
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"Rural justice is a quickly disappearing commodity," the article bellows, tickling my fervid loins like an electric feather and calling upon anyone who can pass the first year at St. Johns and once upon a time read a Richard Russo novel...<br />
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These articles all sound the same after a while, but we're used to seeing them pop up about states no one ever wants to visit like Nebraska or Montana, woebegone artless shitholes that have to pay for tourism campaigns with subtitles like "it won't be THAT embarrassing to tell your parents you came here!" New York has hick places, but you're never that far from a liberal arts campus, a tourist hot-spot, or a big city - the town featured in the article is within an hour of Binghamton and a bit over an hour from Syracuse, after all. But I guess those expert practitioners cannot drive...<br />
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If <i>that </i>place can have a lawyer shortage, the only answer is to start a task force, ask how you can get young people to move to rural communities against their economic and cultural interests to, uh, serve the undefined and debatable greater good, and, hell, just pump more people through law schools, will ya?<br />
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Not convinced? Want to claim that young people are rational economic actors (ha!). Well, don't worry, the neutral Albany Law School brought science to this church potluck:<br />
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A survey by Albany Law School published in April shows the strain facing
those left behind. Among its conclusions: Rural attorneys are
overwhelmed by their caseloads, suffering financial stress and
struggling with limited resources.</blockquote>
Overwhelming work with financial stress? What could possibly go wrong on the five-lane way to making money hand-over-fist?! Well.... for one thing, Boomer lawyers and their egos could not retire:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Responses like this were typical: “I am the only lawyer handling complex
business transactions. I am 69 years old and cannot retire because too
many people rely on me.”</blockquote>
If only the State of New York would put the resources in to train lawyers who could handle the complex business transactions of postcard New York.<br />
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I guess, again, we'll just have to put out more lawyers until we get one to apprentice for this gentleman and then pay him a generous buy-out in lieu of a retirement account. <br />
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Ditto for Georgia and Maine, which the article also states face calamitous lawyer shortages. The ABA must act now to correct these things, or else in ten years life will continue unabated and the law school profit-self-righteousness matrix will remain sadly underwhelming. Scam on.<br />
<br />Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-85541642099063081232019-07-04T00:00:00.000-07:002019-07-04T00:00:07.996-07:00Dean Satan's Declaration of IndependenceWhen in the Course of Scamcraft it becomes necessary for red-faced administrators to speak in the third person and gesture menacingly at the bands which have connected them with another
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal
station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to the hypothetical separation.<br />
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I hold these truths to be self-evident, that not all men are created equal,
that legal administrations are endowed by their Creator with certain surplus uncommon abilities, unimpeachable white-collar manners, and unalienable rights,
that among these are Limitless Locution, Licentious Leisure, and the pursuit of Legal Lucre. —
That to secure these rights, academic bar associations are instituted among our Special Clique,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That
whenever any Form of Administrative Oversight becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the Deans to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Administrative Regime (or just destroy the existing one, por favor?), laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their
Satisfaction and Greed. <br />
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The history of the present American Bar Association is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,
all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny
over these Legal Institutions and prevent the Justice of the Inoffensive Exploitation of Student Loan Conduits. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.<br />
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I would list them out Severally and Specifically, the Scorns and Calumnies, but as a Law Dean such a task is beneath me and my Secretary is on Holiday. Basically, kindly lower bar score thresholds and ensure the rest of us are not going the way of our Lesser Acquaintances. The soft exploitation of minorities is good, too. I also would like a free Espresso Bar at the next Tropical Convention. Suffice to say, the American Bar Association has blown its organizational imperative to fully support its member organizations' earnest efforts of Scamcraft.<br />
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Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of my intentions, I do, in the Name, and by Authority of my Supreme Deanship, declare that I am, <strike>and of Right ought to be Free and Independent </strike> hereby sternly advising the American Bar Association of my Supreme Consternation. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of divine Providence, I pledge <strike>my
Life, my Fortune (the fuck?) and</strike> my sacred Honor.<br />
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Govern yourself accordingly.<br />
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Scam on,<br />
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Dean Satan <br />
<br />Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-2933627350243445882019-06-23T00:00:00.000-07:002019-06-23T00:00:03.885-07:00LSTC Sips Fine Napa Cab, Calls Shenanigans on the California February Bar Results, Joins Demand for Another Task ForceHere is a tabulation from this <a href="https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/06/19/how-law-schools-fared-on-californias-february-2019-bar-exam/">past February's California bar examination results</a> to study for fun and profit:<br />
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<u>FIRST TIME PASS RATES</u><br />Total: 43.5%<br />California ABA Approved: 45.2%<br />Out of State ABA Approved: 47.5%<br />California Accredited: 21.2%<br />California Unaccredited: 25.4%</blockquote>
Questions:<br />
<ul>
<li>The bar exam sucks. </li>
<li>Based on these results, what is the benefit of attending a California law school if it gives you no advantage in passing the California bar examination over an out-of-state school?</li>
<li>Based on these results, what is the benefit of attending a California accredited law school if it gives you no advantage in passing the California bar examination over an unaccredited school?</li>
<li>All of these applicants passed a rigorous course of study over several years, so WTF kind of a bastard shitbird cousinblowing nutpunching lousy bar testing program fails more than half of them? Even Clarence Thomas would find that cruel and unusual punishment, and he's gone full heel at this point.</li>
</ul>
Consider, too, that the Santa Barbara College of Law went 6/11 on first-timers - a better rate than all but 3 of the 12 ABA-accredited schools with sufficient first-timers to report numbers. Or that unaccredited distance learning schools had a better pass rate (28%) than Chapman (25%) or the surviving remnants of Whittier (25%).<br />
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Sorry to repeat myself, but when you're right you're right, and I look fucking amazing today: the bar exam sucks and these people are spitting out results that simply defy expectations (which, when you're smart enough to run a law school cartel, should match reality). If students at Santa Barbara - this is not an ABA accredited school, okay!? - are outperforming Loyola (Los Angeles), Southwestern, and McGeorge, that would suggest a major problem in the reality of American legal education in terms of accreditation, admissions, and testing. It's simply unnatural, an abomination to the Naturale Law and Goode Order. <br />
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I refuse to believe that the space-time continuum is broken; my wine simply tastes too good. The only possible explanation is that <b>the bar exam sucks</b>.<br />
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Thankfully, genius finds genius and I'm not alone in my conclusions. <a href="https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/05/28/california-needs-a-task-force-to-study-the-bar-exam-and-needs-it-now/?slreturn=20190522144911">Here are three of California's top 25 law deans in an opinion piece for law.com</a>:<br />
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Though California bar takers, on average, perform better than their
counterparts elsewhere on the multistate bar exam (MBE), a far greater
number fail as a direct consequence of California’s exceptionally high
cut score.<br />
...<br />
The best path forward is for the California Supreme Court to appoint—as
soon as is practicable—an independent, blue-ribbon task force to study
the cut score issue and make its recommendations within six or nine
months. Such a task force should bring together leaders from the bench,
bar and law schools to assess the cut score and licensure issues
expeditiously, thoughtfully and holistically.</blockquote>
Say it loud, say it proud:<b> <i>TASK FORCE!</i></b><br />
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As with every task force in the history of white collar task forces, you don't appoint one unless you know the result of deploying their tactical expertise, so you know any such task force will develop one hell of a white paper advocating that California reduce its cut score and flood the market with even more lawyers to make even more money.<br />
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We should just have a standing task force (Task Force One? The X-Persons-of-all-Genders? The Un-Avengers?) to deal with legal reform proposals, but since we don't, appoint me! I know the score and I've been doing this shill thing longer than a lot of law deans. <br />
<br />
Too bad the California bar examiners have forgotten the Latin saying embroidered into napkins on the dining car: <i>Squamous Onus. </i>Be a darned shame if I just spilled some of this fine Cab on their lapels and they had to to reach for one...Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-64373144131687804412019-06-14T00:00:00.000-07:002019-06-14T00:00:06.923-07:00Who Needs Accreditation, Anyway?No one ever had to accredit Thomas Jefferson The Man. He had swank digs, a good lot of slaves, and a mind for the Enlightenment.<br />
<br />
So why break the balls of Thomas Jefferson The School? Were they not trying <i>the exact same thing</i> as the critics imagine it, repurposed for modern times like when HBO thought <i>Native Son </i>needed a makeover? A corporation of modest, sustainable annual profits built on unpayable indentures? A thirst for justice and improvements to democracy? A postmodern Monticello on the shores of the Pacific?<br />
<br />
Yet here we go again. <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/06/12/aba-yanks-thomas-jefferson-accreditation">The ABA's sub-whatever voted to strip accreditation from TJLS</a>. Blah blah blah.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The American Bar Association’s accrediting arm has decided to pull
approval from Thomas Jefferson School of Law for not complying with
standards related to financial resources, program rigor and admissions.</blockquote>
Thanks, ABA. I'm sure the real Thomas Jefferson would give these assholes quite a rigorous admission. At there's a silver lining:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Thomas Jefferson will keep its accreditation throughout the appeal, which is expected to take from six to nine months.<br />
<br />
“The law school is disappointed by this capricious decision and
strongly disagrees with the council’s findings,” it said in a statement.</blockquote>
Capricious, indeed. What kind of a rule-of-law-loving organization so casually disregards established ideas of due process and impartiality and decides so capriciously after several years of investigation to give some poor multimillion dollar paper mill the effective death penalty? Obviously, the ABA needs more lawyers on its staff trained at places that understand the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. More from the TJLSs of the world and less from, say, the hoity-toity University of Virginia.<br />
<br />
Maybe someday it'll be a fair world where the little guy can get a break and continue mortgaging the future for self-important profits. Until then, fight the power and scam on.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-12314448037431968152019-06-05T00:00:00.000-07:002019-06-05T00:00:02.674-07:00Young Florida Lawyers Display Immense Job Satisfaction, Repying Debt at High Levels<a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/30-of-young-lawyers-in-this-state-wouldnt-go-to-law-school-in-a-do-over">Great news from the ABA Journal</a>! The Florida Bar did a survey of its younger/less-experienced members and the results are a resounding, unqualified success for Florida, its law schools, and its bar. Really, it's a win for <i>justice</i>. Pat yourself on the back, big guy, and know the line to suck your even-keeled balls is long but well worth it.<br />
<br />
Most often, we use <i>words</i> to describe the brilliant grace of the law. This preference arises from the fact that we, generally, are wordsmithy lawyers, trained in legalese and office persiflage but utterly lost when <i>numbers </i>show up, save, of course, when the checks come (and they do!). But loving the law can be expressed quantitatively as well, and buddy, it's rainin' good stuff:<br />
<ul>
<li>60+% of young lawyers are satisfied with their professional lives and over 50% would run to sign up for law school again</li>
<li>41% have found so much success in the law that they have dreamed of transitioning to other fields, presumably like teaching, writing, or being CEOs of multinational corporations</li>
<li>79% are working less than 60 hours a week, providing an excellent work-life balance</li>
<li>43% report feeling no anxiety or depression at all in the practice of law</li>
<li>in an especially highlighted positive finding, "66% said they enjoy performing the day-to-day work of the job."</li>
</ul>
<i>The Million Dollar Express</i>: who said it's hard to perpetually orgasm and drive a train at the same time? Not this one-man think-tank, and if anyone has, I'd like to see the paper on SSRN.<br />
<br />
The biggest victory is in the student loan debt department. Behold the glory: "The median outstanding student loan amount was $150,000."<br />
<br />
How many times have you heard that common student debts from "unnecessary and predatory" fourth-tier "shit-holes" like Barry, Coastal, or Ave Maria run 200k, 300k, etc.? Well, if we accept that libel as true for the sake of argument, these lean, mean, lawyering machines are rapidly paying down their debts, no? Is that not basic math?<br />
<br />
$150k for an early career practitioner is nothing. Just 15 years of $10k in payments (plus a teaspoon of interest and a fee here or there). These badasses can live large in Destin or Naples and should have no issue paying down their debts. I don't even know why we <i>have </i>IBR much less Liz Warren.<br />
<br />
It's obvious that sunshine is the best disinfectant when the Sunshine State has, apparently, been scrubbed clean of the "it's a scam!" virus. <br />
<br />
I mean, it is, but shit...<br />
<br />
Scam on.<br />
Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-53523008861329301292019-05-31T00:00:00.000-07:002019-05-31T00:00:09.922-07:00The Maine CourseIf you're like me, sometimes you eat such rich lunches in this adventurous practice of law - because even if you have to settle for the meatpile-of-the-month at Arby's, the deft spice of social justice makes everything taste like The French Laundry - that you don't wish to waddle your ass to the dining car in the evening. Instead, on such nights, it becomes common to drink until<i> The Express </i>enters that long tunnel of hopefully dreamless sleep from which it emerges hours later into morning sunlight, the smell of franchise coffee, and a bushy tailed lawyer ready to <i>law.</i><br />
<br />
Tonight is one of those nights, the third this week in fact. In that spirit, he's a shot and chaser - pick whichever you want to be one or the other, nothing matters any longer. We're focusing on Maine tonight, so let's call this cocktail a, uh, Bloody Maine-y?<br />
<br />
1. <a href="https://bangordailynews.com/2019/05/25/news/portland/small-town-firms-compete-with-cities-to-keep-recent-maine-law-grads/">Rural Area Lawyer Shortage Alert</a>!<br />
<br />
The Bangor Daily [phrasing?] News reports a dire situation for prospective exploitative legal billing in the partly inhabited part of Maine.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
There are 30 lawyers per 10,000 residents
in the Pine Tree State, compared with the national average of 40 lawyers
per 10,000 residents, according to the Maine School of Law. Those
numbers are sharply skewed to the southern part of the state, with more
than half of all Maine lawyers living or practicing in Cumberland
County.<br />
<br />
<div class="content-p" id="p-5">
That situation is expected to worsen over
the next decade because of the average age of attorneys in Maine. As of
2017, about 1,000 of the 3,700 practicing lawyers in Maine were 60 or
older. In rural parts of the state, 65 percent of lawyers are older than
50.</div>
</blockquote>
<i> </i>If this isn't reversed immediately, and technology forgets its efforts to make the law efficient, and there's an unexpected increase in legal work, Maine faces a dire lawyer shortage about 20 years from now. <br />
<br />
There's only one solution for this problem: the U. of Maine needs to pump out many more lawyers, particularly minorities who can bring diversity to upstate Maine AND do ace legal work.<br />
<br />
<i>MEANWHILE</i>:<br />
<br />
2. <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2019/05/27/a-moment-of-transition-for-maines-only-law-school/">The U. of Maine is in the Red</a><br />
<br />
Law school isn't expensive for <i>students. </i>It's expensive for <i>schools. </i><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
From 2011 to 2018, the number of applications in Maine dropped from
988 to 574 – a 40 percent decrease. To stay competitive, the law school
has increased the amount of money it spends on grants and scholarships.<br />
<br />
In 2011, the school reported only a third of the student body got
assistance on tuition, and that money almost always covered less than
half of tuition. In 2018, two-thirds of students received financial aid
from the school, and a quarter of them got half to full tuition. Tuition
for this year is $22,290 for Maine residents and $33,360 for
non-residents.<br />
<br />
As a result, the law school has been in the red for several years,
despite cuts to other spending.</blockquote>
This business has a monopoly on legal education in the state and still can't turn a profit charging what some fasci-communists would say is "too much."<br />
<br />
I think it's proof positive that it's not enough in tuition. Maine obviously needs more lawyers and is even subsidizing their deployment to rural areas. And still, Maine Law is broke. The solution for businesses in this situation is obvious: raise prices and threaten/beg the government for crony handouts. Thanks to federal loan dollars being funneled to law school coffers through nominally high tuition rates, the solution in this case is straightforward: drastically increase the price.<br />
<br />
After all, since there's really a demand for more lawyers in rural Maine, the financial rewards should more than cover it.<br />
<br />
And when that happens, my friends, it's like grade A maple syrup dripping on hot buttery pancakes.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-58712444976840701012019-05-24T00:00:00.000-07:002019-05-24T16:21:13.025-07:00The Brutal Bigotry of Reasonable ExpectationsSometimes in civic discourse, pseudo-intellects of a certain
right-wing political persuasion will discuss "the soft bigotry of low
expectations" to concern troll against... well pretty much any
minority-based progressive policy initiative save, possibly, adequately
funding things like schools, which is simply ludicrous in a free market
society.<br />
<br />
It raises the question of whether there exists any bigotry in having<b><i> high</i></b> expectations. Well, in the context of law schools, the answer is obvious: YES. MUCH MUCH BIGOTRY. <br />
<br />
Case in point: recently, the ABA accreditation folks adopted a measure <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2019/05/21/law-schools-tougher-american-bar-association-sanctions-graduates-fail-bar-exam-asu-school-law/3745028002/">requiring 75% bar passage within two years</a>.
It's a stupendously dim proposal using an arbitrary number; assume 90%
of Cooley's graduates land A-level JD-Advantage jobs? And of course
it's racist. The ABA House of Delegates advised rejection of the deal
with its past president noting that such a change would "decimate the
diversity in the legal profession."<br />
<br />
Requiring would-be
lawyers to pass the bar exam seems an intolerable act. When it
unnecessarily punishes law schools for having the audacity of giving
minority 140 LSATs a chance to defend traffic tickets, it's bigoted as
fuck.<br />
<br />
The LSTC vows to fight any such measures. This accreditation rule essentially creates a segregated car on the <i>Million Dollar Express</i>, forcing us to uncouple it if the occupants simply aren't fit to practice law. I'm fairly certain <i>Brown v. Board </i>is on point here.<br />
<br />
At least some people still get it. Shreveport, Louisiana, is <a href="https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2019/05/21/breaking-shreveport-moves-step-closer-law-school/3744822002/">one step closer to solving its understudied lawyer shortage</a>.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"If you look at points south between Baton Rouge and Shreveport and west
between Dallas and Shreveport and north between Little Rock and
Shreveport and east between Jackson and Shreveport we have one of the
largest geographic regions in the country without a law school," Glover
said.</blockquote>
God damn that's good stuff. Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-82927347044552549632019-05-17T00:00:00.000-07:002019-05-17T00:00:10.202-07:00Proposed LSAT Adversity Score AdjustmentsWhat ho, good reader! The year says it's 2019 and in our long progression of tea-bagging the thin line between parody and reality, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-to-give-students-adversity-score-to-capture-social-and-economic-background-11557999000">the SAT now intends to algo-rythymo up an<i> Adversity Score</i></a>. This ensures that the long tradition of wealthy white people rigging overly-complex systems to their advantage will continue unabated while middle class folks who bought homes near nice schools and, generally, second and third generation Asians who play it straight will continue to get rammed.<br />
<br />
It seems only fitting that the LSAT should adopt an Adversity Score to capture those sorts of students who might excel in law school but just not be good at logical reasoning. I would like to propose we give a questionnaire to determine whether prospective law students should be given Adversity Points - and I suspect that most should, because let's face it: everyone's life has been difficult or else they're exactly the type of people law schools really really want.<br />
<br />
As starters, I'll suggest the following:<br />
<br />
QUESTION 1: Which of the following best describes your skin tone?<br />
A: Cocoa [+10]<br />B: Caramel [+5]<br />C: Cotton Candy [+2]<br />
D. I am now hungry [-20; diabetes is not a form of diversity!] <br />
<br />
QUESTION 2: Which of the following was closest to your house growing up.<br />
A. KFC [+8]<br />
B. Chik-fil-A [+4]<br />
C. An O.G. Asian restaurant with no English menu serving the best chicken dish you've ever had (+5, International Law!)<br />
D. A home where a personal, dedicated chef wouldn't dream of subjecting his "clients" to fried chicken [+25]<br />
<br />
QUESTION 3: Describe the pool in your backyard growing up.<br />
A. My homie's blood after the police done him raw. [Automatic T2 Admission]<br />
B. Urine b/c the plumbing never worked [+7]<br />
C. A li'l crick that ran the length o' the holler up to the bend [+3]<br />
D. One of those metallic above-ground things [...<i>just...rejected</i>]<br />
E. An in-ground pool, you know, typical McMansion stuff. My step-mom sat beside it all the time and pretended to read trade fiction. [-10]<br />
F. Have you seen Hearst Castle? [Automatic T1 Admission]<br />
<br />
QUESTION 4: Have you ever had to work for a living?<br />
A. Yes, doesn't everyone? [+10]<br />
B. God no [+10]<br />
<br />
QUESTION 5: Are you good at trigonometry?<br />
A. Yes [+5; need STEM!]<br />
B. No, I was more into reading and writing and history [+10; obviously disadvantaged]<br />
C. What's this trigonometry? Like a gun thing? [+5 and Automatic T4 Admission]<br />
D. That's a bit off on a <i>tangent</i>, wouldn't you <i>co-sine</i>? [GOODBYE FAKER]<br />
<br />
QUESTION 6: Have you ever brought a woman to orgasm?<br />
A. Yes [+5]<br />
B. Well, myself, I guess [+10]<br />
C. No... [0]<br />
D. ...like I paid attention to that [-10]<br />
E. The female orgasm is a physiological myth propagated by Zionist femininazi pigs [-50; but do you have a trust fund?]<br />
<br />
QUESTION 7: Do you plan on taking out student loans?<br />
A. Yes [+10]<br />
B. No, I believe in thrift and have saved for law school [0]<br />
C. No, I have a trust fund [+10]<br />
<br />
QUESTION 8: Do you believe that the Constitution is a living, breathing document?<br />
A. Yes [+10]<br />
B. O, Listen! I can barely hear its desperate, short breaths and the slow, methodical thump of its redoubtable heart over the deafening cacophonous march of totalitarianism, of censorship, of fascism, of retrogression! Its blood ink has faded with age and its paper skin wizened but, the document persists, and as a wise codger, we would benefit mightily from hearing its feeble but strong voice bellowing the priceless wisdom of experience. [+11]<br />
C. Citing Stephen Breyer on this point... [+12]<br />
D. "It depends" [+13]<br />
<br />
And so on.<br />
<br />
With enough questions, everyone's individual diversity and adversity can be accurately accounted for, ensuring that law school admissions are fair, rationally based, and entirely the broken turnstile for the masses that they were always intended to be.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-73863369118283725672019-05-06T00:00:00.000-07:002019-05-06T00:00:10.063-07:00Statistics for Lawyers and, Also, Your Test is Still RacistAh, Aaron Taylor. He pops up every now and then in the sorts of high-class periodicals I peruse. For example, in <a href="https://www.slu.edu/law/law-journal/pdfs/issues-archive/v59-no2/aaron_taylor_article.pdf">this article</a>, exploring the relationship between declining enrollments and greater diversity at less-endowed law schools, which contains this outstanding footnote:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 261.1px; top: 525.348px; transform: scaleX(1.0129);">Hoards of so-called “scamblogs,” on whic</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 525.499px; top: 525.348px; transform: scaleX(1.02395);">h the authors, often anonymous, offer searing </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.7px; top: 543.748px; transform: scaleX(0.961073);">critiques of legal education, have gained popularity over the last few years. These blogs have </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.7px; top: 562.048px; transform: scaleX(0.9789);">tapped into the larger climate of frustration, ge</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 515.101px; top: 562.048px; transform: scaleX(0.978129);">nerating attention and, of course, page views. </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.7px; top: 580.347px; transform: scaleX(0.965096);">Some of these blogs have contributed useful insi</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 521.8px; top: 580.347px; transform: scaleX(0.963894);">ghts to discussions of legal education; others </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.7px; top: 598.748px; transform: scaleX(0.984869);">have contributed little more than snark. </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 476px; top: 598.748px; transform: scaleX(0.969174);">See, e.g.</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 526.199px; top: 598.748px; transform: scaleX(0.986);">, </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 536.3px; top: 598.748px; transform: scaleX(0.99671);">Profiles in Deliberate Misinformation and </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.7px; top: 617.047px; transform: scaleX(1.00525);">Dishonesty: Aaron Nathaniel</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 405.301px; top: 617.047px; transform: scaleX(1.03845);"> Taylor, “Law Professor” </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 571.101px; top: 617.047px; transform: scaleX(0.991006);">at St. Louis University</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.199999999999998px; left: 709.10116px; top: 617.0471399999997px;">,</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 11.7px; left: 720px; top: 619.275px; transform: scaleX(1.02151);">THIRD TIER </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 11.7px; left: 231.701px; top: 637.575px; transform: scaleX(0.994195);">REALITY </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 286px; top: 635.348px; transform: scaleX(0.952537);">(Oct. 12, 2011, 6:25 AM),</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 446.101px; top: 635.348px; transform: scaleX(1.00143);">http://thirdtierreality.blogspot.com/2011/10/profiles-in-delib </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 653.748px; transform: scaleX(0.997508);">erate-misinformation.html (providing a particularly snarky assessment of my views on legal </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);">education).</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">Feel the burn, you gnarly whoreson! If that isn't like lemonade on a sunny Saturday afternoon...</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">His latest <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/04/15/study-argues-law-schools-limit-black-enrollment-through-lsat">triumphantly castigates the LSAT and law school admissions folks for being racist</a>. I feel like I've heard this record before, but it feels fresh every. single. time. So academics, don't worry - you can repeat yourself and still get tenure. Look at how often the Beatles get played on the FM radio,or the teeming millions who read this blog. People want to hear good shit over and over again.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);"><a href="https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1350&context=lawreview#page=1&zoom=auto,-20,802">The actual article</a> is about "marginalization," a word omitted by the Orwellian press cited above entirely. The piece deep-dives into this concept of marginalization, not just Du Bois-for-idiots but getting out the <u>dictionary </u>Scalia-style:</span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">The terms <i>marginalization</i> and its lexical cousin, <i>marginality</i>, are both derivatives of the word <i>marginal</i>.Thus, the meanings and conceptions of <i>marginalization</i> and <i>marginality</i> descend from how <i>marginal</i> is defined. The Oxford dictionary defines marginal as “[r]elating to or situated at the edge or margin of something.” Therefore, <i>marginal</i> is a relative construct denoting deviation or distance from some notion of normality, center, or power.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">Smooth as<i> </i>the related word <i>margarine</i>, and not at all filling space like a high school salutatorian speech. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">The article's real gem, however, is brash acts of grammatical/statistical dissimulation worthy of an immediate <strike>letter</strike> e-mail to prospective students. For example, this glorious page:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">Note that the upper chart doesn't support his thesis in the least; though it uses averages, a black student with a 152 appears to have a greater chance at landing a merit scholarship than a white or Asian student with a 152. Confronted with this hostile microaggression, Taylor ignores it and pulls a denominator switcheroo, rephrasing the issue as the chances of a random student from said race <i>independent of LSAT score</i> landing a scholarship - which is simply restating the LSAT disparity coupled with the idea that merit scholarships are yoked to LSAT scores. This indispensable variable removed, the racism of the imaginary 148 LSAT black student not getting a scholarship compared to the imaginary 155 LSAT white peer becomes patently obvious.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">Elsewhere, the piece lumps together people with 135 and 149 LSATs to make some claim that low-LSAT whites have a higher admission rate than low-LSAT black applicants without even looking at GPAs or other factors, and at other places it makes logical presumptions without appropriate citation or premises (e.g., "[a]pplicants who apply later in the cycle are often less likely to gain admission, due to fewer available seats remaining in the entering class").</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">In statistics terms, it sucks, but in rhetorical terms, it's amazing, perfect not only for law school scholarship but also indicative of the sorta thing that would thrive on the Plaintiff's bar or in a BigLaw managing partners' meeting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">Being blatantly pro-LSAT, Inside Higher Ed, of course, gave the institutional test-makers a chance to defend their hot garbage exclusionary tool:</span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">"The trends we have observed in applications from African American
candidates that affect outcomes include the factors that Mr. Taylor
identifies such as submitting applications late in the application cycle
and LSAT scores that fall in lower bands. <b>We see other factors as well
such as [grades] and age at time of application</b>."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">"We believe that the overreliance that Aaron criticizes is driven by too much focus on <em>U.S. News & World Report</em>
rankings and, in some cases, a failure on the part of schools to
understand that <b>even if they choose to focus on rankings, they have room
to admit a wider range of LSAT scores</b>."</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">Emphasis added. What a snippy, spiteful bitch. It wasn't enough to successfully rebuke the adequacy of Taylor's work in single paragraph; she just had to knock the entire industry's ability to understand how averages and medians work.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);">As a leader of the industry's preferred white-power testing mechanism, she should know that the willful mishandling of statistics to do whatever the fuck we want is </span></span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);"><span class="st"><em>de rigueur </em>for this industry. </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 231.701px; top: 672.048px; transform: scaleX(0.996768);"><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14.2px; left: 537.201px; top: 708.748px; transform: scaleX(1.03196);"><span class="st">Without statistical obfuscation, the <i>Million Dollar Express </i>just doesn't run.</span></span> </span>Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-49157450205761180272019-04-30T00:00:00.000-07:002019-05-02T17:08:41.212-07:00Small Firms Struggling with Grads Not Passing Bar? Solution: More Lawyers!<a href="https://www.law.com/2019/04/28/the-big-fail-part-iii-hiring-then-firing-as-bar-pass-rates-sink/?slreturn=20190329222046">Here's Part III of Law.com's series on bar exam failures</a>.<br />
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The upshot of this piece, reading through my $750.00 slightly tinted glasses, is that we need to pump more lawyers into the system in order to make sure there are enough bar exam passers to work at small firms and absolve them of any fretting about their "investments" failing the bar.<br />
<br />
Unlike your typical law school brochure I'm only sorta making this up (instead of telling you the straight dope, which the brochures always do):<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Because of Big Law’s tendency to hire from elite law schools that
have for the most part maintained steady bar-pass rates, those firms
have largely escaped the impact of the growing percentage of exam
failures over the past five years.<br />
<br />
But the reality is different for smaller firms and public sector
employers that hire from a wider pool of law schools and can little
afford to hold jobs open for graduates who flunk the bar.<br />
<br />
...[L]ower pass rates are creating hiring headaches for
the smaller employers that can least afford additional recruiting
challenges.</blockquote>
To get the gritty, man-on-the-street opinion for what life is like among the lesser-fortunate firms, the piece features voices from 120-lawyer firms and 50-lawyer firms, unquestionably victims of the malicious squeeze upon bar exam rates caused by uber-jealous assholes who simply don't wear the suit as well.<br />
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Look, Skippy, just because you have a master's degree in statistics and psychometrics doesn't mean you can deny little Riley or Jordan the opportunity to practice law just because [preferred third person subject case pronoun] doesn't know how about affirmative defenses or arcane procedural rules like "jurisdiction." <br />
<br />
Apparently, some firms are even scandalously now waiting until lawyers are actually licensed before hiring them. How the hell are young lawyers supposed to organize their financial affairs if they don't have six-figure jobs waiting for them at graduation? <br />
<br />
The solution, it seems, is obvious: we need to pump so many lawyers through the system and make the bar exam as easy as possible so people don't have to deal with this whole, messy "is this person actually qualified?" thing. It's just not fair to anyone to expect lawyers to jump over some arbitrarily placed "bar."Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-10995578564893321012019-04-17T12:00:00.000-07:002019-04-17T18:04:57.475-07:00The Most Delicious SoupKaren Sloan over at law.com has posted <a href="https://www.law.com/2019/04/14/the-big-fail-why-bar-pass-rates-have-sunk-to-record-lows/?slreturn=20190317194103">a rather intriguing, comprehensive examination of declining bar exam pass rates</a>. As a long-time proponent of big colorful graphs to assist leading superficial readers to obvious conclusions, I'm a fan. As a bootlicker of the drug-induced American dream, I wish she would have focused a bit more on the 40-year marathon that ends in a full-body collapse at the finish line into a large pot of gold.<br />
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I particularly take issue with the tone, e.g.:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Law.com analyzed the bar pass rates reported by schools to the American
Bar Association between 2013 and 2017—the 2018 results aren’t yet
available—and found that 42 out of 203 ABA-accredited law schools saw
their pass rate fall anywhere from 10 to 20 percent. Thirty-five schools
had pass-rate declines of more than 20 percent in those four years.<br />
<br />
While their circumstances vary somewhat, most of those schools with
pass-rate declines larger than 20 percent have experienced significant
drops in their enrollment and applicants, as well as difficulties in
helping graduates find legal jobs—<u><b>making for a toxic stew of challenges</b></u>.</blockquote>
Emphasis added - a toxic stew?! That's a terribly inartful way to describe the delectable treats served in the cafe of the <i>Million Dollar Express</i>. I would prefer it described as <span class="st">a <i>playful but mysterious little dish</i>.</span><br />
<span class="st"><br /></span>
<span class="st">It strikes me as particularly interesting that Ms. Sloan would select a soupy metaphor to describe the regulatory-challenged law school environment. Searching my archives of Excellence in Law School Propaganda, I recall now-Chancellor and President of Syracuse Kent Syverud - while cresting the post-recession roller coaster - <a href="http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-many-people-will-apply-to-law.html">using a soup-adjacent metaphor to explain how the applicant pool had actually improved back in 2011</a>:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span class="st">Kent Syverud, dean of the Washington University School of Law in St.
Louis, where applications this year declined more than 11%, said it was
a good thing prospective students now were more “clear eyed” about the
risks and rewards of a law degree.“The froth in the applicant pool—those who were just going to law
school because they didn’t know what else to do and everyone told them
it was a safe bet—is pretty well gone,” he said.</span></blockquote>
<span class="st">For those unfamiliar with fine meal preparation, when you make a soup or stock with almost any kind of meat, bones, or beans, a froth or "scum" develops on the soup's surface that contains less-desired broken-down proteins and substances, so traditional cooking methods suggest to skim the froth and dump it on your most obnoxious child. The recession, in other words, removed the least pure, least tasty law applicants, and in no way removed seasoning and vegetables, and in <i>absolutely </i>no way is the pot a giant crock of shit.</span><br />
<span class="st"><br /></span>
<span class="st">Perhaps, then, it is improper to call the current offerings to some lower-tier law schools a "toxic stew," but rather we should say "a much improved stew." For imagine how insulting the dish would be to holier-than-thou palettes were the froth left in all this time. The froth would now be lawyers instead of, one supposes, running tech start-ups or community organizing. So if the soup somehow isn't to your particular taste, just be thankful you're not living in that dreary alternate reality where the only comfort to the bitter, radioactive soup is the extra thousands of lawyers floating around meting out justice like pills at one of those concerts the youths attend long before they have to pass character and fitness.</span><br />
<span class="st"><br /></span>
<span class="st">I, of course, find this soup absolutely delicious, not at all like the broth served in the soup kitchens of my mythical youth, and no one would dare to serve it cold as far as I can see. So slurp it up, buckos. Slurp it up and feel no guilt in asking for thirds. </span>Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-29822093738094293892019-03-25T00:00:00.000-07:002019-03-25T00:00:03.084-07:00Guess Which Enterprising Law School Offered Admission to a Teenager?HYPO: A gifted young woman graduates high school at 13. Currently 16, she's set to graduate college this semester. Crusty skeptics would say that a responsible law school interested in training professionals should not be in the business of enrolling a teenager who likely, by nature and through no fault of her own, lacks the maturity to practice in three years. So, which law school is going to tell all of those deflated scrotums to fuck themselves and offer admission?<br />
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TRICK QUESTION: <a href="https://www.wwlp.com/world/16-year-old-girl-to-attend-law-school-in-the-fall/1873482677">The answer is at least ten</a>! She's actually enrolling at SMU, which is currently ranked... prestigious... by the U.S. News rankings. It's where lots of good Texas lawyers went and isn't typically a recipient of angry spittle about being in the "third tier" or worse. <br />
<br />
MATH: The "million dollar premium" was calculated based on a traditional K-JD all-star. A 16-year-old who graduates law school at 19 gains an additional 5-6 years at the front end of a high-earning career, which, by my bar napkin calculations, increases the earnings premium to 2 million easily (compound interest, etc.). The charlatans at the ABA and various accreditation offices are clearly robbing gifted students by keeping most of them from earning their six-figure potential at 20 years old. This is fundamental economics.<br />
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ADVICE: For any other minor considering a legal education, I would like to advise you that studying law is far more interesting than pretty much any other venture a teenager can involve themselves. Malls, cars, music, sex, drugs - all overrated products of immature vanity. In fact, fuck the idea of a social life alltogether - I've never met a teenager worth talking to, and boy have I tried! The adult world is where all the fun is at. Don't you want to look forward to co-workers gabbing about NO COLLUSION and their NCAA brackets? To get there, I can't think of a better detour than reading jurisprudential gems like <i>Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1.</i><br />
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Shit, if she's a lawyer at 19 or 20, with the right ideological views she'll be in line for a district court gig while her age peers are just getting sworn in. The <i>Million Dollar Express</i> has an infinite supply of track, after all.<i> </i>Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-25055087531233677752019-03-12T12:00:00.000-07:002019-03-12T18:52:47.467-07:00Congratulations and/or It's Okay, You're Still Running a Law SchoolIt's that time of year! Again!<br />
<br />
U.S News has come out with its newest rankings, where a dying publication reshuffles a few law schools around the rankings as they have been for a couple decades and everyone pretends it's news.<br />
<br />
As is tradition, there is a cavalcade of 2nd-rate journalistic outlets using the pseudo-expertise pedaled by a 3rd-rate publication for fresh-take articles. For example, <a href="https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/mar/12/unlv-law-school-ranked-among-top-60-in-nation/">this one's</a> headline highlights UNLV being the "top 60," which is a polite way of saying it didn't quite make the top 50.<br />
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<a href="https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2019/03/12/emory-edges-uga-in-us-news-law-school-rankings/?slreturn=20190212205836">This one, about law schools in Georgia</a>, has many hallmarks of the genre, the highlight of which is the passive aggressive dean quotes showcasing a master-class in academic public relations, where the winners have received self-evident proof of their greatness while the losers have liberty to challenge the very idea of <i>ranking </i>law schools.<br />
<ul>
<li>Emory's law dean calling it a "top-ranked global law school" as if that's a real thing and suggesting that it teaches students to "think critically about the rule of law," whatever that means. (Note: the LSTC is pro-rule of law. Pro.)</li>
<li>Georgia's dean speaking in terms of "epic strides and buzzwording the school as the "nation’s best return on investment in legal education."</li>
<li>Mercer - which dropped 10 spots - saw its dean say this: </li>
</ul>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
We obviously would rather be moving up in the rankings in a year when
our bar passage rate went up, but that underscores to a large extent the
arbitrariness of the rankings year to year.</blockquote>
God, that's some good stuff. Are your blood vessels not dilated? Who needs drugs when you can read law school journalism?<br />
<br />
Perhaps the biggest Congrats of the week goes to Concordia University and, by extension, the Great State of Idaho. <a href="https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article227134264.html"> Concordia now has full ABA accreditation</a>, which is like having a full metal jacket, although the only people blowing their brains out are the graduates 20 years into debt repayment. For now? <br />
<br />
The metaphor works: there's nothing better in America than holding a loaded weapon or running a law school.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-88684182293983385172019-02-27T18:00:00.000-08:002019-02-27T19:10:47.239-08:00ABA Gets Out of the Way of Florida Coastal's SuccessAs you may recall, Florida Coastal brought suit in federal court against the ABA for vague accreditation standards that unfairly stopped it from fully savoring its meaty prospect pool. Well - in yet another development showing that the dust of that great irrational rebuke of law school is settling - <a href="https://www.law.com/2019/02/27/florida-coastal-drops-accreditation-lawsuit-against-the-aba-292-40637/?slreturn=20190127213913">Florida Coastal dropped the suit</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The new filing offered no insight into why the parties are dismissing
the case, but Florida Coastal Dean Scott DeVito said Wednesday that the
school is confident in the ABA’s accreditation process moving forward.<br />
<br />
“The primary reason we are dropping the suit is that our faith in the
process has been restored based on the council’s and section’s
interactions with us on our pending issues the last few months,
and after the factfinders came last week,” he said.</blockquote>
Translation: Florida Coastal is back, baby! Want proof? <b>Their argument is literally that it's competitive with the bottom quintile of law schools in America.</b><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“We talked about our entering credentials being on par with or better
than 44 other law schools, our Florida first-time bar pass being above 4
out of 5 comparable law schools in Florida and just 5.5 points below
first-tier University of Florida in 2018, the strength and skill of our
faculty and academic support, our continuing improvements in career
placement, and what great students we have,” DeVito wrote to students.</blockquote>
This is the glory of the ABA and pseudo-regulatory capture. If one school sucks (relatively: these kids are all budding millionaires, right?), they get isolated, called out, closed down. But if it's 44 uncle-fucking schools that all suck, it's the <i>standards </i>that are the problem. Strength in numbers <br />
<br />
As of this writing, Florida Coastal's non-discounted cost on Law School Transparency is $255,736. It boasts a 37.4% employment score. Its reported LSAT spread is 140-147. <b> The school is so confident that things are going to go well with the ABA's Council on Legal Education later this spring it dismissed its lawsuit with prejudice. Ask yourself if the future hearing has any real teeth behind it.</b><br />
<br />
It's truly a wonder why Valpo, Whittier, et al, opted to close. Running one of these businesses is like writing subprime mortgages but you're permanently stuck in 2004 and Fannie Mae is wearing a spiked dog collar with your initials on it. I'm jealous of the joy these folks must feel sending out admission letters. Legitimately jealous.<br />
<br />
The legal academy may hate Donald J. Trump and the broad strain of American libertarianism, but it's with a big ironic wink; its crappiest members clearly enjoy the profits of a totally neutered regulatory scheme paired with a rigged "free market." They're no different, deep down, than the typical Fox News economist, and it's truly a glorious, glorious thing to be on the right side of such ideology.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-10497276974745292492019-02-10T18:00:00.000-08:002019-02-10T18:00:04.970-08:00Florida Coastal Contemplates Savvy Corporate ReorganizationAs we know, one of the bugaboos of law school detractors is "for-profit" status, an offshoot, one supposes, of this Millenial trope that after nothing but historical success with unfettered capitalism, maybe America should try socialism. Nation is a grand experiment, I suppose.<br />
<br />
In reality: Liz Warren faked her ethnicity and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did <i>not </i>go to law school. Capitalism wins, Q.E.D.<br />
<br />
The thing about law schools is that the faculties/administrators are as smart as the grease-slick companies their faculty members would be advising at white shoe firms but-for their steadfast commitments to public service. See, e.g., <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/02/06/florida-coastal-school-law-seeks-earn-nonprofit-status">Florida Coastal's corporate reorganization scheme</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Florida Coastal School of Law, a Jacksonville-based for-profit
institution, says it will seek to reclassify as a nonprofit entity,
joining a number of other for-profit institutions that have recently
announced plans to change tax status as a solution to legal, regulatory
or marketing hurdles...<br />
<br />
Law school officials say the change would allow professors to apply for
federal research grants and would facilitate the expansion of an
endowment. Converting to nonprofit status would also have the added
benefit of reducing federal regulatory requirements and removing a
for-profit label that has become toxic for many students.</blockquote>
Live from Jacksonville, it's a checkmate. Just as prestigious institutions all across the fourth tier have learned, if you simply move from an independent for-profit to a "better" status, you expand your market potential even while retaining the exact same profitably shit-stained standards.<br />
<br />
Isn't <i>anything </i>actually going to change at Florida Coastal? Shit, no. It's got a nice thing going and it's turning out future millionaires. Who in their right mind would change that formula because what some snooty hunchbacks in other places spit at their computer monitors? But you improve the bait, sometimes you land bigger fish.<br />
<br />
Enjoy that new research money and reduced regulatory requirements, Florida Coastal, but never change for real. We love you just the way you are. Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-83800949239334613622019-01-30T00:00:00.000-08:002019-01-30T00:00:06.708-08:00The Charleston Saga: Law School as Living Horatio Alger MetaphorAh, where were we? Oh, yes. Charleston School of Law had finally vanquished and driven out the greedy proprietors who were attempting to sell the city's crown jewel to Infilaw. Despite Infilaw offering superior legal career trajectory at a market-beating price, Charleston alumni and students felt they could do better, just like the numerous women who turned down my various proposals yelled at them from moving vehicles. And who could blame them, really? This is America and the gas is pumpin', baby; almost everyone is doing great; everyone except you, in fact. Infilaw itself has even found more profitable uses of its capital than running successful law schools, proving that legal education is a competitive market giving students lots of bang for little buck.<br />
<br />
The good news doesn't stop there. Charleston has been mightily rewarded for its dogged perseverance. <a href="https://www.postandcourier.com/news/charleston-school-of-law-still-recovering-from-turbulence/article_29ccbe9e-fcbb-11e8-bc1f-63093e3f419d.html">Look at how high it has hoisted itself</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Bell’s splashiest proposal at the time, making the school a nonprofit,
is still in the works as the school files paperwork with multiple
regulatory groups. As part of the process, the school has paid off $6
million it owed to InfiLaw after backing out of the deal — partly using
the school’s funds, partly using Bell’s own money, according to the
attorney. Bell said he believes the school can complete the transition
by early 2020.</blockquote>
Money well spent, sir! I mean, just look at how the fine specimens develop:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Charleston School of Law’s bar passage rates have lagged for years, a
phenomenon that Bell and other college officials have blamed in part on
the InfiLaw deal. Some of the school’s top-performing students
transferred out shortly after the deal was announced in 2015. Bell said
the influx of Charlotte transfers might also be a factor.<br />
...Change is coming, Bell said. With more applicants
each year, the cutoff LSAT scores for entry to the Charleston School of
Law are on the rise.<br />
<br />
“It’s becoming harder to get in. Our profile of students has gone up,” Bell said.</blockquote>
According to Law School Transparency, CSOL has a 44% employment score, a 46.7% bar passage rate, a robust LSAT spread of 143-151, and a non-discounted cost of $241,146.<br />
<br />
Brother, if that's not progress to brag about, I don't know what is. What a happy epilogue for all involved. You dance, Charleston. You dance. And scam on.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-55834144264440426732019-01-22T00:00:00.000-08:002019-01-22T00:00:05.826-08:00Albany Law School Finally Catches Financial BreakAs we all know, a life is judged on the size of an estate. Morally, anyway, it's a fair approximation. Economically, you'd have to consider the assets of the state, liquidity, expected rates of return, etc. But the rule stands that a man with millions to flush down the toilet can be assumed to have done good, smart, upright things in life.<br />
<br />
We know that most critics of the legal education system, by contrast, are morally bankrupt, and, I suspect, their finances fare little better. They may live well, upper middle class perhaps given the lofty salaries of even government lawyers and contract compliance officers, but true elitist wealth surely remains elusive, the intangibles forces of such accretions sensing their cold, slime-coated hearts.<br />
<br />
Albany Law receives some spittle from the latter, but <a href="https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/15M-windfall-for-Albany-Law-School-a-mystery-13542362.php">this donation from one of the better class's members no doubt makes all that abacus booger flicking worthwhile</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Albany Law School has received $15 million, the largest gift in school
history from an anonymous donor whose support will help the school
continue providing free legal services.<br />
...<br />
Ouellette said the donation would be noticed around the world, though
she conceded some people might wonder why a donor gave $15 million to a
smaller upstate law school.</blockquote>
The well-read reader may recognize the circumstance - a mysterious benefactor issuing a head-scratching donation - as downright Dickensian in a way, and indeed Albany Law School is as good of a recipient for sudden pseudo-humanist largesse from an old coot as Bob Motherfuckin' Crachit.<br />
<br />
Don't believe me? Let's ask Dean Ouellette if her institution is worthy:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"We realized as we talked among ourselves that we are really one of
the best-kept secrets in the Capital Region," Ouellette said, "and it
makes perfect sense that someone would look at us as a place to leave a
legacy gift like this."<br />
<br />
She said the school was "reinventing legal
education in order to meet societal need," and a "little bit of a
unicorn" — an independent law school thriving at a time when similar
institutions are failing.</blockquote>
Indeed! Given the typical humility of law school programs - I recall the brochures being quite modest about opportunities when I applied, drastically undercutting the orgasmic pleasure and financial opportunities afforded by a legal education - it comes as no surprise that it would take a $15 million donation for administrators to sit around and talk amongst themselves about how amazing they are.<br />
<br />
I'm reminded of my favorite passage in <i>Great Expectations</i> when Pip learns from the esteemed lawyer (!) Mr. Jaggers that he has just been dealt the rare and inexplicable (well, without a law degree!) "Social Class Upgrade" card:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“I am instructed to communicate to him,” said Mr. Jaggers, throwing his
finger at me sideways, “that he will come into a handsome property.
Further, that it is the desire of the present possessor of that property,
that he be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from
this place, and be brought up as a gentleman,—in a word, as a young
fellow of great expectations.”<br />
My dream was out; my wild fancy was surpassed by sober reality; Miss
Havisham was going to make my fortune on a grand scale. When I contemplated it, it made for perfect sense. I was one of the best-kept secrets within a gentle carriage ride of London's orbit, a 'little bit of a unicorn' myself, combining the greater virtues of the lesser and superior classes with the prodigious butter-churn of a Vulcanized Adonis; by God, were I to come into sufficient bank notes and credit, I could effortlessly mold Victorian England towards the justice of the purest-hearted monarchs, a hundred pupils at a thousand quid a head, no matter how dim their candles flicker! Hie, great legal stallions! Fear not the debtor's prison, for you can discharge your indentures with liberty and service to the crown! Oh, my apologies...</blockquote>
As much as Dickens gets flack for being stodgy and prone to antiquated, reductionist moral lessons dressed in purplish prose, he was damned prescient.<br />
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<strike>What the fuck is a little bit of a unicorn? Isn't that a pony?</strike> Congratulations, Albany. You've earned it.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-56541156423327552542019-01-14T18:00:00.000-08:002019-01-14T18:21:50.444-08:00Periodic Reminder That Your Minimal Competence Standard is Racist<a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/article223879635.html">New year, old story</a>:<br />
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[A group of California law deans] suggest the state’s minimum
passing score of 144 is too high, compared to the national average of
135, and disproportionately keeps African-American and Latino law
graduates from entering the profession...<br />
[I]f California adopted the national average, the number of African-American law graduates passing the exam would have doubled.</blockquote>
If you haven't heard this argument, or developed it on your own upon a thoughtful review of the legal education system, as all good lawyers must undertake regularly, you aren't trying hard enough. <i>Not unlike the bar failures</i> you might say, you racist bonehead.<br />
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But this article goes above and beyond. In particular, check out this aspirant for the Nick Allard Award:<br />
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“More clients insist on having diverse lawyering teams, and this is an
irony,” said UCLA School of Law Dean Jennifer Mnookin “We are this
extraordinarily diverse state that is reducing the pool of good
lawyers.”</blockquote>
Assert a dubious fact without proof, misuse the word "irony," misuse the word "good," and throw a needless "extraordinarily" in the quote. When I read passages like this, I am enraptured in a sort of ecstasy. Absorbed in the contemplation of
sublime beauty. I reach the point where one encounters celestial
sensations. Everything speaks so vividly to my soul. I have palpitations of the heart. Life is drained from me.<br />
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<i>But she doesn't stop there!</i><br />
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“The bar exam was invented as a paper and pencil test,” she said,
suggesting that past generations focused on memorization while current
law students rely more on quickly accessing online data. “Some of what
is on the bar exam might not be a good fit for this generation.”</blockquote>
I am not worthy. Even as <i>satire </i>one couldn't come up with such a brazenly absurd excuse for declining bar scores; my god, you do what your elders did and cram for a month on bummed pills and coffee. It's not like the laptop and an internet connection were invented in 2012. Old timers, many of whom are clinical idiots, had access these magical things called books using indices and KeyCites, so it's not like they had any greater need to memorize things in practice <br />
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It's potentially the dumbest argument the LSTC has ever encountered in support of <i>Law Schools Gone Wild</i>. But there the argument is, in all its glory! In print, from a Harvard undergrad, Yale law grad, MIT PhD!<br />
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So I'm doing what all good apologists do and adopting it wholesale. I join the law deans' call to end the racist bar exam by lowering the minimum passing score in not just California, but all jurisdictions, and give these kids access to Westlaw and their mobile phones during the test. <br />
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It is, after all, what clients want.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-43949039913980468302019-01-06T12:00:00.000-08:002019-01-08T17:17:40.629-08:00Happy 2019, You Loser Journalists Still Fighting "Good" FightI thought we were past this.<br />
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It's 2019. The "scam" - which is totally apocryphal with no basis in reality- definitively existed from the legal profession's fashionably delayed recognition of a recession in 2009 to around Esquire Larry Mitchell's resignation in the spring of 2014. Since then, we've had a rebound of applicants, slow acceptance of Michael Simkovic's ground-breaking research as unassailable truth, and law deans singin' and dancin' like R. Kelly.<br />
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Yet, when I scroll the ho-hum news of legal gallantry - nothing makes a morning like a scroll of Above the Law on the toilet with a White Russian in hand and a rail of coke near the sink - <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/01/04/trump-bump-offering-little-help-to-law-schools/">I still see incomprehensible, retrogressive piffle like this</a>.<br />
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Boston law schools are fighting to climb their way out of an
enrollment and employment crisis despite a “Trump bump” of activist
legal eagles that some say is modestly boosting application rates.<br />
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“Graduating law school is no longer the ticket to a very comfortable
upper-middle-class living,” said civil liberties and constitutional law
crusader Harvey Silverglate. He said there is an “oversupply” of lawyers
in the state, making it difficult for graduates to find a job.<br />
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“You can’t blame people for not going to law school when they can go
out directly from college and get a fairly well-paying job,” said
Silverglate, “The value of the degree has gone down, but the price of
attending law school has gone up.”</blockquote>
Harvey Silverglate? C'mon, journos. You can't use rejected Willy Wonka villains for sources.<br />
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It's truly curious that law schools and legal journalists would see (encourage!) a "Trump bump" - that our President is so respectful of our legal system and the benefits/protections it can confer on good people that it makes people want to study law - as many of the problems of journalism appear in criticism of the President as appear in skeptical articles about law school.<br />
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For example, look at the amount of "fake news" in this one mule-headed article. Here's the fourth paragraph:<br />
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According to data from the American Bar Association, enrollment rates at
top Boston law schools have plummeted since 2012 — with Suffolk
University seeing a 29 percent reduction; Boston College, nearly 14
percent; and Northeastern University at 7 percent.</blockquote>
Boston College, Northeastern, and Suffolk are not "top" law schools. They're middle-of-the-road, versatile law schools, representative of the firm greatness of legal education from across the country. How's enrollment rates at Harvard, hmmmm? And here's more with the ender:<br />
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“Bar pass rates are often a lagging indicator of what law schools are
doing and what kind of students they are bringing in,” Perlman said.</blockquote>
My hairy beanbag is a lagging indicator. Bar pass rates are a sign that Millennial students are spending too much time on their xPhones and iBoxes, nothing more, nothing less.<br />
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Journalism can be better than this. In the dawn of this New Year, let's resolve to make it so. No more negativity. Only <a href="https://abovethelaw.com/2019/01/deranged-cranks-with-law-school-degrees-and-too-much-time-on-their-hands-find-a-home/">intelligent positivity</a>. And <a href="https://abovethelaw.com/2019/01/everybody-else-is-reading-this-812/">in-depth content</a>. And <a href="https://abovethelaw.com/2019/01/is-newlaw-finally-here/">sales</a>, as appropriate, of course.Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2363936253583148153.post-15037618908153896262018-12-18T00:00:00.000-08:002018-12-18T00:00:13.279-08:00Embrace the Surge of JD and LLM EntrantsIt's the holiday season, time of joy and gifts and religious posturing. In that festive spirit, I bring you <a href="https://www.law.com/2018/12/14/law-schools-see-first-real-enrollment-gains-since-2010/?slreturn=20181117230338">the Good News</a>:<br />
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New student enrollment at the nation’s law schools increased 3 percent this fall, according to figures released by the American Bar Association Friday.<br />...<br />More than half of schools—122—reported an increase in the size of their first-year class, while 81 schools told the ABA that their 1L class is smaller than in 2017.<br /><br />It’s not just J.D. programs that gained in popularity this year. Enrollment in non-J.D. programs, which includes LL.M. and masters programs, grew more than eight percent from 2017.</blockquote>
LLM programs grew <i>eight percent</i>? It's like these kids haven't read a damn thing that's been typed by the petulant "realists" over the last decade. <i>Eight percent! </i>Hot damn, Mary Sue, there is a Santa Claus, and he's got a nice list full of law deans, apparently.<br />
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The three percent JD boost is like having something good happen in your morning: a good night's sleep, a great cup of coffee, a notably good commute. An EIGHT PERCENT LLM boost is like getting that while high on free cocaine.<br />
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I mean...<br />
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With all that's out there, how are law schools still winning? Isn't this enough to cause a "truther" to spiral into serious crisis and depression? What would law schools have to do to <i>lose</i>? Could Robert Mueller bring them down? Were the few schools that closed basically making the herd faster through their sluggish departure, suggesting that their crapness was actually a stealth benefit?<br />
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All I know is, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of going to work tomorrow.<br />
Seriously, eight percent LLM increase?! Am I off-base? That's nuttier than turtle pie. And if it's all importing foreign kids while the JD enrollment is boosted by sudden concerns over Donald Trump, that's even better. As Clarence Darrow once said, paraphrased, the law is a never-ending pleasant surprise.<br />
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Thanks for this one, Santa and/or Jesus. Law School Truth Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.com6