elonlawgrad wrote:
Nicholasnickynic wrote:
theres already a t-14 and two t1 in NC. Throw in a bunch of t3s. I hate schools like this. Its the reason lawyers can't get jobs. Theres no need for more law schools in NC, especially with the collapse of the charlotte market.
But then you get retarded schools like this and elon. Go pick another profession. Or stop sucking at the lsat.
This is what happens. 90% of people at charlotte don't get real jobs. Corporate a holes get rich, and the 10% of charlotte people that do get jobs take them from people that actually deserve them.
Someone who graduates from <insert "retarded" school> and someone who graduates from <insert non-"retarded" school> who both pass the Bar are both LAWYERS! Get off your high horse! Your argument makes no logical sense. "It's the reason lawyers can't get jobs." What lawyers can't get jobs? I graduated from Elon as part of the inaugural class and secured a job outside of NC as a LAWYER at a midsize firm. If you’re concerned with there being more lawyers, but say these schools are inadequate, then we (an Elon/Charlotte grad and a grad from another NC school) shouldn’t be competing for the same jobs, much less actually getting those jobs.
"This is what happens. 90% of people at charlotte don't get real jobs. Corporate a holes get rich, and the 10% of charlotte people that do get jobs take them from people that actually deserve them."
What makes you more entitled to a job than someone who graduated from Elon or Charlotte? I went to Elon because, no, I couldn’t get in to UNC or Duke, but I worked hard in college and had a great GPA, knew I wanted to be a lawyer and I was going to do whatever it took to become one. Just because someone doesn’t score a 165+ on the LSAT doesn’t mean they are incapable of logical reasoning or that they will not make meaningful contributions to the legal profession. Employers choose who they want to hire. Why do you feel so threatened by competition?
i agree. Just because you can't do well enough on the LSAT does NOT mean you could not be a great lawyer. However, there are TOO MANY lawyers - someone can double check this, but I believe the common stat is 30k new law jobs last year and 45k new lawyers?
Therefore, there should be some kind of cutoff for lawschool, so every one who gets a degree can get a job. Hmm, what kind of cut off coudl we use. Something thats the same for everyone.
Different schools and gpas are hard to compare.
Hmmm if only we could think of some kind of standardized measure or test to arbitrarily cut people out. Then there wouldn't be a glut in the market.
Suggestions?
Limit the class size of all law schools to 200. Then allow each law school to accept another 100 in transfers after the first year.
This would effectively destroy shitty schools because all of their top students would transfer out to better schools - thus, even if they only had 10% reporting salaries, it would still be shitty. On the other hand, all law school graduates would now have meaningful employment.
I would also suggest doing away with ranking students and moving all law schools to the same curve (of course it won't be exactly the same, but all schools should have a similar median).
That way, legal hiring would be more straightforward - and employers would have to develop systems of comparing the exact same GPA system across schools (and decide when a higher gpa at a lower ranked school is worth more than a lower gpa is at a higher ranked school)
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:16 am 
