Do Law Schools Take Advantage of Law Students?

The question whether it's a good idea to churn out lawyers in an economy already saturated with them is an interesting one.

And I believe that articles like "Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!" will ultimately begin to slow the flow into law schools.

So will blogs like "Life's Mockery", written by a "law school victim"!

Sadly, it appears that the market was flooded with lawyers, and then the economy turned to poop. When that happened, a bundle of great business clients disappeared, perhaps forever.

And the outsourcing of legal work began in earnest.

All of that has created a perfect storm for recent law school graduates, and many established biglaw AV Rated and AVVO 10.0 specialists, and that is very sad indeed, because big-firm lawyers don't learn how to find legal business, or how to set up a law firm, or how to do anything much except how to practice law and how to bill hours.

On the other hand, my good friend Rick Cook has written a gem of a tiny book (an e-book, actually), entitled "Shift Happens", and it describes the sea-change in publishing and how people can now easily publish  and get rich, where before they could publish, with great difficulty, and stay poor.

He's careful to point out that work is involved in writing a book, and in marketing the book, but there are probably a few hundred good books to be written on the topic of law schools, and why it's a better idea to avoid them until the supply of lawyers is absorbed!

And if a recent law grad wants to make a few bucks while waiting to find a job, there's no reason not to write a book while they're waiting.

After all, they have more time than money!