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Malcom Gladwell addresses this strange credentialism in the legal industry in a recent podcast. In his reckoning, entry into top law schools is determined almos
by DavidAdams 7y ago
Malcom Gladwell addresses this strange credentialism in the legal industry in a recent podcast. In his reckoning, entry into top law schools is determined almost entirely on LSAT scores, and the LSAT favors people who can process questions extremely quickly. But good lawyering is done by deliberative people who often don't perform well on standardized tests. In the podcast, a guest who took a look a legal hiring determined that LSAT or resume from top firms were not good markers of a good lawyer, so yes, legal hiring seems to be very broken. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/31-puzzle-rush http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/31-puzzle-rush
- dogma1138 7y agoFor every court room charmer or a loophole engineer a large firm will 100’s of associates digging through documents and filing motions in the background. In fact if a top tier law firm does their job well they would likely never get to a court room. The main “need” of large law firms is an army of motion bees and discovery drones. If anything it shows that large firms have too much of an influence over school admissions rather than that legal hiring is broken.