The media is trying to spin it as "Grish" putting such institutions in his cross-hairs, but he's actually quite complimentary of legal education if you think about it.
For one thing, he rightly chose to focus on a for profit institution, preserving the sacrosanct truth that non-profit schools serve the public good and don't lead to the sort of spooky Halloween-level fictions of joblessness, debt, and skill mismatch.
For another thing, he doesn't even excoriate all for-profit schools.
According to the American Bar Association, there are currently six for-profit law schools in America that are accredited. One of them, the Charlotte School of Law, was recently closed.See? Using super-lawyer logical reasoning, that means no more than five (5) of the ABA's 205 accredited schools are "shady," which is less than 2.5%.
"Not all the schools are shady....."
"Grish" may not write sex scenes well, and he may not have known about the student debt crisis until 2014, and his books may be highly enjoyable formula pieces about superficial injustices, but god damn it, the man understands law.
Not having read or even been sent a courtesy copy of The Rooster Bar, I have no idea if there's a dedication. But let's give "Grish" a proposed epigraph for his next book, which I can only hope will be about an enterprising law dean who fights defamatory and unscrupulous journalists in the trenches of a courtroom and torches their asses with the hellfire of precise rhetoric and glimmering cuff-links:
97.5% of law schools are not shady.
- John Grisham
Yep, there are several dozen "non-profit" law schools just as shady as the for profit toilets. We can remember when TTTs and TTTTs would post "99% of graduates employed within nine months." Too bad he didn't focus on them as well.
ReplyDeleteI worked for a for-profit school (not law), and now work for a "non-profit" school (again not law). While clearly this is a guess, based on my experiences, I would estimate that the bottom 100 law schools are just as shady as the for-profit schools.
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