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Legal academic Paul Campos's book Don't Go To Law School (Unless) agrees with the "too many people go into law" point: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/11/11/dont-g

Legal academic Paul Campos's book Don't Go To Law School (Unless) agrees with the "too many people go into law" point: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/11/11/dont-go-to-law-school-unless-paul-campos/ https://jakeseliger.com/2012/11/11/dont-go-to-law-school-unl.... But the number of people taking the LSAT has fallen by half since the Great Recession, at least last time I saw the data; it might have grown again since. But these days, most generically smart people who don't know what to do with their lives are probably better off doing a CS degree or coding boot camp than law school.

_bxg1 7y ago
And my impression is that most of them do
clairity 7y ago
law has a serious conflict of interest: it's a profession that gains by fostering and even fomenting disagreement. reducing it's stature and influence might lead to a more harmonious society.
- dvtrn 7y ago
  That’s quite the simplification of the practice of law isn’t it?
  - clairity 7y ago
    no, it's not reductive of the whole field, just describing an inescapable aspect of it: to make arguments.