Eric Posner: The real problem with law schools: Too many lawyers. - Slate Magazine

I rarely agree with Eric Posner, but on this issue he makes some good points.  The current law school crisis is the product of the collapsed economic bubble, technological change, and bad policy: too few lawyers for those who need representation, too little support for public law schools, and law schools' unrealistic expectations of endless prosperity. - gwc
The real problem with law schools: Too many lawyers. - Slate Magazine:
by Eric Posner

The only realistic way to help lawyers today is to increase the demand for legal services—somehow convincing governments, for example, to pay for adequate representation of indigent defendants—but in the long term, greater demand will create the expectation of yet more job growth, and that could lead to another bust. The critics seem to think the legal profession can escape the logic of the market. It can’t.

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