"Since 2008, law school applications from people with degrees from top universities has plummeted a staggering 44.9 percent." - Kathryn Rubino, Abovethelaw.com, April 4, 2018. Here is the article.
Alan Dershowitz. Ted Olson. David Boies. Charles Harder. And, the fictional Denny Crane from "Boston Legal."
All of them have dazzled not only the legal sector but laypeople with their strategic brilliance. The fascination with their moves could be preventing the screened-in minds from becoming digital mush.
But they could be the last generation of legal geniuses. As Rubino documents, the pool of legal talent is not being re-stocked with the best and brightest from the next generation.
No fools, youth bore witness to the carnage of 2009. Demand collapsed in the practice of law. As Rubino also had documented, 6,000 lawyers lost their jobs. Here is that article.
Since the end of the golden age of law, the industry has remained flat or has been downsizing, depending on who's doing the assessing of manpower demand. Also, it is increasingly difficult to make partner. Then, the new wrinkle is: It's also increasingly difficult to hold onto that position of partner. No longer is it good enough to do outstanding legal work. Partners must bring in new business.
It must seem so much more attractive to those with lots of options to go to tech or Wall Street.
It's not all that attractive to take the grueling route of preparing to become a lawyer.
That includes keeping up the grades to get into a T-14, preparing for the LSAT or GRE, investing three years and six figures in law school, passing the bar, competing for a good job, hoping to survive the first few years of being an associate, navigating a lateral, pulling out all stops to land partnership, and then struggling to stay in the game.
Those of us who did go to law school, even in the best of times, continue to ask ourselves: Why? There were much easier career paths.
To bring back the interest of the best and brightest, law schools might pitch to their higher selves.
After all, the law could bring about social justice. In the lobby of law schools, the film "Marshall" should play continuously.
In coaching the over-50, I am picking up the hunger to return to a strong code of values. That might be filtering down to iGen.
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