Greedy Trial Lawyer
Shut Down Law Schools
Category: Why Didn't I Think Of That?
The remedy for Litigation Mania, according to The Conservative Voice, is to educate fewer lawyers. I am totally in support of any program that would reduce the number of law school graduates. In fact, I believe there is no reason to create any additional lawyers. Our society has an ample supply of skilled attorneys in every field, especially lawyers fighting for justice. It simply makes no sense to pump out more and more of us when our country really needs more scientists, engineers, school teachers, nurses, linguists, politicians, FEMA officials and conservative talk show hosts.
I propose a variation on the old Make Love, Not War placards and billboards: Make Brainless Tort Reformers, Not Lawyers.
Lessen Litigation Mania by Requiring Public Universities to Change their Enrollment
One mechanism to trim litigiousness is tort reform. Indeed, tort reform initiatives - such as restrictions on punitive damage awards and altering joint and several liability rules to limit recovery to the proportion of each defendant's responsibility - are sensible. But perhaps there is an even easier way to combat litigation mania and encourage business innovation at the same time - make fewer lawyers and make more scientists.I believe we need sensible legislation at both the state and federal levels that would require public schools to decrease law school enrollment by 25% while concurrently increasing enrollment in the hard sciences by 25%.
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I'm always impressed by the impassioned calls of practicing lawyers to limit the number of their competitors new lawyers. So selfless.
At this site they at least note that the Steven Voight is "a lawyer with a premier law firm that has offices throughout the United States and Europe."
Ted Frank, Steven Voight, and Philip K. Howard sure do hate lawyers. Some people might consider that a bit strange, though, considering they're all, you know, practicing lawyers.
Posted by: Seth (not a lawyer) at August 4, 2006 08:31 AM
Well... I agree with the basic idea (closing the law schools). However, I disagree with the reason for that.
As far as I can tell, the only thing law school taught me was that in order to be a really successful lawyer, you have to work for a big firm. Otherwise, what good are you as an alum.
Or was there something else I was supposed to learn? I mean, I had to take a special set of courses in order to take the bar exam. Anything of use in my practice was learned by actually reading applicable case law and statutes that were of precedential value in the state and jurisdictions I have practiced in, and not from any class where the professor wanted to focus solely on his theory.
Aside from one class (trial advocacy where my instructor was an actual, practicing attorney who passed along what he was able in the short time we had him) law school was essentially three years of unmitigated pain and drain that served no other point but to enrich the parent university of my law school.
Oops. Sorry for the rant.
Posted by: Bill at August 4, 2006 03:28 PM