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LawSchoolasTrainingforHierarchy 25 - 12 Jun 2012 - Main.RohanGrey
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I found this account of the law school experience by Professor Duncan Kennedy of Harvard Law to be relevant to our discussions in class, thought I’d share. | | | I don't know when clinics became such a selling point, but now as the market is contracting you see schools trying to sell their clinical programs. With a combination of clinics, externships, focused course selection, and maybe some DIY advice from Eben, you can probably walk away from Columbia a decently well-trained practitioner. Just skip "Intro To Spanish" and take it through Rosetta Stone instead of CLS.
-- AlexKonik - 10 Jun 2012
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> | Another element of firm signalling you haven't mentioned is the impact on potential clients of being able to claim that one's associates are all hired from "Harvard, Yale, Columbia, NYU and Chicago." Companies (like humans, it seems) are willing to pay a substantial premium to receive what they perceive to be top quality service when those services are crucially important, as is the case in a lot of complex, bet-the-firm legal services as well as even general contract drafting of deals worth many millions (or billions) of dollars. Think about a family paying "whatever it takes" to get the best education for their child, safety locks on their house, oncologist for the cancer-ridden wife, etc., and you start to get the picture of why it might be beneficial for law firms to hire the "cream" of the graduating class regardless of actual competency (particularly when, as you say, they don't need to be ready Day 1). | | | \ No newline at end of file |
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