Opinion
No. 646: ABA Guilty of Creating Lawyer Gap
According to a recent study, the high cost of attending law school makes it hard for government agencies and “public interest” organizations to recruit good new lawyers. You may be inclined to laugh and say, “So what’s the problem?” but the study, From Paper Chase to Money Chase, inadvertently calls attention to the policy in most states of allowing the legal establishment to dictate the details of legal education.