This is bad news for students. But it is even worse news for the rest of us.
Op-Ed (NATIONAL)
Gillian Hadfield
Quartz
September 20, 2017
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Tags: Delivery Systems, Law Schools
Organizations mentioned/involved: American Bar Association (ABA)
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Today’s law schools are increasingly chasing their own tails, with the holy grail still being a coveted job in a big law firm that serves large corporations. Meanwhile, roughly 90% of Americans dealing with legal matters do so without legal help. And as I have found in my research, even big businesses are unhappy with what is available to them. In a 2011 survey, 70% of global executives reported that law and regulation were the greatest causes of complexity in their businesses.