The contraction would be painful, but the results would be relief for many who have gone before and those still to come. It might restore the profession to a liveable wage.

Maybe the ABA should think about reducing the number of law schools, or maybe capping the number of students admitted into law school each year!!

The legal profession does not even compare to the medical profession. At least Doctors have jobs!! How can you justify giving students more loans!!

1) Slash law professor salaries!

2) forgive law school debt.

3) Don’t allow another law school to open for at least 150 years!

Public schools, on the other hand, have to answer for substantial public funding. Additionally 3/4s the new attorneys being popped out now have alma mater’s that are competing with this public funding. Therefore, ironically, the highest-rated school in the area may be the most vulnerable.

But all of this is off point anyways because the real problem is with the ABA. Consider two sources of influence to the ABA: attorney members vs. law schools. Do statements like “remove the tuition cap” reflect the influence of the attorney membership or law schools?

Clearly there is a problem when the organization approving new law schools has been so obviously captured by the interests of those same law schools, and not the bulk of the attorneys in its membership. (Many of whom are probably still paying back outrageous school loans.)

This is just another example of our supposedly representative Government being taken over by the monetary influence of organizations. And anyone who’d like to argue that the ABA hasn’t become a de facto, privatized organ of our Government can be my guest …