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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what happened to law:

[b]1.  As people realized it was too difficult to enter science, medicine, engineering, math, economics or similar fields, they turned to a profession with then high incomes and the glut of lawyers began.[/b]

2.  Many laws were passed (Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley) to provide more low level employment for lawyers.
This made lawyers think it would be easy to obtain a job outside of a law firm.

3.  Technology advances created a need for patent lawyers, intellectual property, etc. lawyers, and this again made people think there were plenty of jobs.

4. Women entered the field of law in large numbers beginning in the 1970s because it was an easier professional degree to obtain (see #1 above). Any time women enter a field, pay goes down.

5.  Technology replaced functions once done by new associates, so less need for them.

It is simple:  Too many people looking for an easier to enter field than sciences  and too few jobs.   If these people learned something useful, they could have a very good job.  [/quote]

This exactly!

Compared to those other majors in college, pre-law is a breeze.

Right now all of the college aged people I meet are Psychology majors.  I predict the same thing for the Psych field in the next 5-7 yrs.  [/quote]

Most lawyers did not major in pre-law. [/quote]

Indeed, at least 15 years ago, "pre-law" majors were actively discouraged by major law schools.  they get and take a lot of English or Political Science Majors, but they love getting people with STEM or business undergrad backgrounds.  even arts.  Honestly, just about any degree is more useful for law school than being "pre law".  It's not like being premed, where there are a lot of prerequisites you need to understand the field and do well in med school.  They want people with training in critical thinking.

There are too many shitty lawyers in the world, not enough good ones, like many fields.  and law school, in most instances, is not very good prep for practicing.  It provides a very basic grounding and connections in the field, but most skills are learned on the job.  Taking out 10s of 1000s or even 100s of 1000s of dollars in loans for a law school that won't give you good connections is increasingly insane.  I have a good friend who teaches at a good regional law school.  They bust their humps to get their graduates employed.  The job hunt training, internships, and the recomendation process is at least as important as the classes.  Even so, she struggles with the idea, I think, that some of her bottom tier students are inevitably screwed.[/quote]

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