For Law Schools, a Price to Play the A.B.A.’s Way - NYTimes.com

It's common sense: there are too many lawyers: except that when you look at it most people are underserved.  So there aren't enough lawyers - not enough that ordinary people can reach to get the advice they need.  One reason: the cost of legal education.  Some blame the ABA.  Others (including me) blame the steady cutbacks in suppport for public universities.  The Times keeps after the ABA. - GWC
by David Segal For Law Schools, a Price to Play the A.B.A.’s Way - NYTimes.com:

"THE library at the Duncan School of Law may look like nothing more than 4,000 hardbacks in a medium-size room, but it is actually a high-tech experiment in cost containment. Most of its resources are online, and staples like Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice and Procedure — $3,596 for the multivolume set — are not here.
“We have a core collection,” says Sydney Beckman, the school’s dean, “and if someone needs something else, we provide it.”
Duncan, which opened two years ago, has 187 enrollees, all of whom have wagered that this library — and everything else about the school — is up to scratch. Because before these students can practice in every state, Duncan needs the seal of approval of the American Bar Association, the government-anointed regulator of law schools."

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