Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The law skool Ponzi scheme

Clifford Winston of Brookings Institution writing in the New York Times asks Are Law Schools and Bar Exams Necessary? Most lawyers have never heard of the Brookings Institution, or much else in the world, based on the absence of intellect I've seen while maimed for thirteen years.

The "voluntary" ABA says:

The ABA was founded on August 21,1878, in Saratoga Springs, New York, by 100 lawyers from 21 states. The legal profession as we know it today barely existed at that time. Lawyers were generally sole practitioners who trained under a system of apprenticeship. There was no national code of ethics; there was no national organization to serve as a forum for discussion of the increasingly intricate issues involved in legal practice.

Yet while they're voluntary, the rules they force on others are not. They serve to prevent entry by people who are sick and injured, or have been decimated by the system itself. At the same time, they let those with credit, the stupid and rich enter at will.

That's gotten us "far", as he points out. Indeed, who accredited anything before well into the last century ?

FOR decades the legal industry has operated as a monopoly, which has been made possible by its self-imposed rules and state licensing restrictions — namely, the requirements that lawyers must graduate from an American Bar Association-accredited law school and pass a state bar examination.

For nearly 200 years lawyers came from a variety of backgrounds, until the socialist standardized system took hold in the early part of the 20th century.

That means that all the most important decisions of the USA were made by people without the benefit of being a victim of the educational Ponzi scheme, where the Globalists want to uplift the stupid and lower the most intelligent by telling them they're all equal once they own the paper most shouldn't have received by virtue of their inability to pay, let alone their middling intellect.

Why did they ?

I was told to go to Yale and couldn't, because there was no aid for those who didn't buy a boat, a car and a house to get rid of what the government had said to save from the 1970s. That meant you fell short.

To protect clients from bad lawyers, current barriers to entry try to separate the wheat from the chaff among potential legal practitioners. A market for information, though, would let consumers identify the chaff more precisely, saving more of the wheat. It is worth recalling that two of the finest lawyers and civil rights advocates our country has ever produced, Abraham Lincoln and Clarence Darrow, would not be allowed to practice law today under current rules. (Lincoln was self-taught; Darrow attended the University of Michigan Law School but did not graduate.) Eliminating entry barriers and allowing non-lawyers to perform legal services would, among many other gains, ensure that such talents have a place within our legal system.

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