tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post2273084504765239171..comments2024-03-28T10:56:31.720-06:00Comments on Outside the Law School Scam: 1,000,000 Page ViewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-12422531704125033922014-11-01T18:24:01.071-06:002014-11-01T18:24:01.071-06:00And those job-seeking professors will explain to t...And those job-seeking professors will explain to the recruiters that they should be hired in preference to their students because they are great lawyers and lousy professors and thereby "what could those students possibly know?"<br /><br />Just exquisite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-27972770332734619082014-10-29T02:05:57.966-06:002014-10-29T02:05:57.966-06:00But Trenton has no law school, so it's hardly ...But Trenton has no law school, so it's hardly a city. Camden has one, and Newark and Detroit each have two. You want to be a young, hip urban professional, you hold your nose and go where the law schools are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-55290462262589717842014-10-29T00:08:35.475-06:002014-10-29T00:08:35.475-06:00I have to disagree...Trenton takes the title as th...I have to disagree...Trenton takes the title as the most beautiful city in America. Newark and Camden are tied for second. Or is it Detroit?<br />Anyway, 1,000,000 page views means visibility; the shedding of light on a profession that was destined to decline. Just think in those one million perusals, how many minds were changed and lives saved...and how many more in the next million. The impact is noticeable and for that I say, Bravo!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-62171278313028510342014-10-28T23:40:19.514-06:002014-10-28T23:40:19.514-06:00I'm thinking that Nietzsche must have said tha...I'm thinking that Nietzsche must have said that every man is his own lawyer. How else could Leiter have gotten it in his head that he's a lawyer? And clearly stating that in his threatening email to Carrie was the boner of the century. Not only premature, but utterly foolish under any circumstances. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-63898090117154871552014-10-28T23:06:21.735-06:002014-10-28T23:06:21.735-06:00You're right, that is nasty. I hesitate even t...You're right, that is nasty. I hesitate even to think of what would motivate a sadistic online troll like Brian Leiter. I think that Maurice, for all his faults, has done us a great service with his philosophical explorations of the depths of professorial depravity. He has gone where even angels fear to tread.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-27378766740425278852014-10-28T22:56:50.767-06:002014-10-28T22:56:50.767-06:00Regarding point number 4 at 9:06...San Diego will ...Regarding point number 4 at 9:06...San Diego will probably be the first city to have law professors searching for jobs alongside their unemployed grads. I find it deliciously ironic that their fraudulent act of pretending to teach unqualified students will result in even more competition when they have to seek real jobs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-82957164157227285942014-10-28T19:31:41.969-06:002014-10-28T19:31:41.969-06:00I glad you all have gotten to this point.
My law ...I glad you all have gotten to this point.<br /><br />My law school scam hope is that one day every lemming reads Nando's entries on every school they wish to apply to and then goes to Law School Transparency and looks at the Employment and Underemployment scores and costs tab for those schools.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-58648976506692753132014-10-28T18:39:24.927-06:002014-10-28T18:39:24.927-06:00I don't see why there should be one school for...I don't see why there should be one school for each state. Already Alaska doesn't have one, and soon enough Delaware and Vermont will join it. With the notable exception of Louisiana, the variations in law from state to state do not justify state-specific schools.<br /><br />Old Guy<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-8011625655718276312014-10-28T14:36:21.704-06:002014-10-28T14:36:21.704-06:00After the syphilis hit his brain he just mumbled a...After the syphilis hit his brain he just mumbled and drooled. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-30264036952835467882014-10-28T14:32:43.944-06:002014-10-28T14:32:43.944-06:00NH and Vermont could probably share grads from Mas...NH and Vermont could probably share grads from Massachusetts. Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming could snake grads from Colorado and Washington. The Dakotas could share one or swipe from Minnesota. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-38228820208949753152014-10-28T14:10:36.615-06:002014-10-28T14:10:36.615-06:00I think 30 or so law schools will close within the...I think 30 or so law schools will close within the next 10 years.<br /><br />If bar exam passage rates are purposely lowered in all states to no more than 50% of test takers, I think you'll see a much more dramatic drop in the number of schools.<br /><br />In fact, the next big push should be for par passage rates to go down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-53485463983650530452014-10-28T12:05:45.653-06:002014-10-28T12:05:45.653-06:00I think he said, "Laws are made to be broken....I think he said, "Laws are made to be broken."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-27079911527472377712014-10-28T11:22:39.210-06:002014-10-28T11:22:39.210-06:00Actually, BamBam, some smaller states should split...Actually, BamBam, some smaller states should split the costs of running a shared law school with another small state or with a larger neighbor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-86300366670692189312014-10-28T10:27:56.118-06:002014-10-28T10:27:56.118-06:00I seem to recall that Brian Leiter, a professor of...I seem to recall that Brian Leiter, a professor of law (but oddly enough, not of philosophy) at Chicago, once conducted a thoroughly unscientific online poll on how many law schools would close. I think the consensus was fewer than ten.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-56489376927266402912014-10-28T10:21:02.038-06:002014-10-28T10:21:02.038-06:00I know of several seriously unbalanced law profess...I know of several seriously unbalanced law professors. Sometimes people who think they understand the criminal justice system feel free to commit the basest of crimes. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-2473826659496104292014-10-28T10:10:37.295-06:002014-10-28T10:10:37.295-06:00According to Hobbes, that is. I wonder what Nietzs...According to Hobbes, that is. I wonder what Nietzsche had to say about legal careers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-35782905612388649512014-10-28T10:07:22.488-06:002014-10-28T10:07:22.488-06:00And Newark is the most beautiful city in America.And Newark is the most beautiful city in America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-6089238020275010682014-10-28T09:14:32.150-06:002014-10-28T09:14:32.150-06:00Old Guy -- of course law professors won't go h...Old Guy -- of course law professors won't go hungry. McDonald's gives its employees free food. Unless, of course, the manager is a law school graduate with $150K in dept ... LOL Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-43489830417895466952014-10-28T08:14:06.460-06:002014-10-28T08:14:06.460-06:00Yeah 55-60 sounds about right to me. One state sc...Yeah 55-60 sounds about right to me. One state school for each state (and no, Fla and NY and CA do not need more than one state school in spite of their size--they are the most saturated legal markets) plus the top 5-10 private schools.BamBamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-47159027061011106302014-10-27T22:41:45.329-06:002014-10-27T22:41:45.329-06:00The chair will be yanked out from under many a six...The chair will be yanked out from under many a six-hour-a-week ass. And scholarshit, currently the <i>sine qua non</i> of hackademic hiring, will turn out to be a dreadful liability. Pretentious, illegible treatises on open roads and neo-Rawlsian hip-hop will vanish from résumés in a trice.<br /><br />I don't expect many law professors to go hungry, though: most of them are upper-class fucks with parents or spouses or trust funds to support their dead weight.<br /><br />Old Guy<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-70639407482601355892014-10-27T22:11:34.597-06:002014-10-27T22:11:34.597-06:00Light is HEAT!Light is HEAT!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-30425613876932135862014-10-27T22:06:58.620-06:002014-10-27T22:06:58.620-06:00Disgruntled now, but when law schools start to clo...Disgruntled now, but when law schools start to close, law professors will add "mega" as a prefix when they face the reality:<br /><br />1. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th rate schools have professorial talent of the same caliber, with the same "employability" prospects.<br /><br />2. Just as graduates of such schools can't find jobs, professors from them will not likely have a book of business to move to a law firm and will find themselves unemployable.<br /><br />3. Their duped students, though indebted, will have and extra 20 to 30 years to pay off their debt, unlike the professors who careers will largely be over, having no business to take with them. Some will find government work, perhaps.<br /><br />4. Any city with a law school which lays off a fair percentage of their law professors will hardly be able to absorb the unemployed law professors, many of whom will have to incur the expense of moving, while being unemployed. Hoping to find a job somewhere.<br /><br />5. That law professors will find it difficult if not impossible to find employment at law professor salaries. A large pay cut is inevitable. To say nothing of evaporating benefits.<br /><br />Cooley has reportedly slashed professorial staff. Several other schools have frozen or lowered tuition-that is perhaps the last step before slashing professorial staff.<br /><br />The other shoe has yet to drop and it will be deafening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-17593044876859663492014-10-27T21:20:25.206-06:002014-10-27T21:20:25.206-06:00I am sure that whatever unnamed person keeps sendi...I am sure that whatever unnamed person keeps sending me weirdo messages through this blog is acting out of the most elevated master morality. dybbuk123https://www.blogger.com/profile/08142974443119061724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-38438569860243781382014-10-27T20:57:42.136-06:002014-10-27T20:57:42.136-06:00I was glad to find out that I was not alone in my ...I was glad to find out that I was not alone in my legal career being nasty, brutish and short.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-66612482320539551842014-10-27T20:37:09.675-06:002014-10-27T20:37:09.675-06:00That's about the right number. Not even twenty...That's about the right number. Not even twenty law schools in the US are worth attending.<br /><br />Old Guy<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com