Change or die? But how? To what? Thanks to anti-tax ideology we have shifted the cost of public legal education to students. `Why should I pay your kids college tuition?' has been the winning argument for university education and a wide range of public services. "We take care of our own" sings Bruce Springsteen. But not very well. - GWCAn Existential Crisis for Law Schools - NYTimes.com:
by Lincoln Caplan
The number of law office jobs began to decline in 2004, well before the recession. And demand for new lawyers isn’t expected to grow much even when the economy recovers. Outsourcing of legal work to places like India and greater efficiencies made possible by smarter software to search documents for evidence, for example, are allowing firms to cut the positions of multitudes of low-end lawyers. In 2009, twice as many peoplepassed bar exams as there were legal openings — a level of oversupply that may hold up for years. There is, of course, tremendous need for lawyers to serve the poor and middle class, but scant dollars to pay them.
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This crisis makes it easy to forget that the law attracts pragmatic types, able to handle changed circumstances. And in fact, huge law firms, hot areas of practice and outsized salaries at top firms are fairly recent developments. Law schools need to be pragmatic, too, finding ways to ensure that graduates can afford to take jobs where the salary is less important than the impact.
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