Law in Contemporary Society

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Fears of a law student

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  • You haven't explained why you think that the best way to prepare for practice is to be trying to practice without having learned how. The hypothesis on which law school is based, and which I think has validity regardless of the reasons why law school presently works badly, is that a coherent attempt to teach is more effective than undirected apprenticeship. As a person who both teaches in classrooms and also operates a legal services entity where young lawyers, including law students, practice all the time, I can say for sure that law school education, including at high student-faculty ratios in large classrooms, serves purposes that practice-oriented school-to-work programs can't have on their own. But why should I stop you from explaining how lawyers should be trained?

  • I think there is courage and strength in admitting the anxiety, but the next step is to be willing to let go of the cords that tie you to it. If every time you spoke to some suburban householder he told you how he lies awake at night worrying about his mortgage payment and that it's preventing him from doing what he wants to do with his life, you'd wonder. So I wonder. You're going to have a small mortgage to pay, probably in addition to some long-term debt on your home. So what? Life choices aren't made on the assumption that your only way to pay the mortgage is either (a) get a job with the worst industrial polluter in town, or (b) do something no one can quite define or knows how to do. People have been making a good living using law licenses for a thousand years. Large leveraged law firms have been around for less than a hundred years. The belief that you can't make a good enough living to pay the mortgages without hocking your license to some sweatshop isn't worth three essays your freshman year. It isn't worth one. To let the issue have an y significant effect on your life choices is stupid. That's really how it is. Now, can you deal with it?
 
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