Law School? There's an App for That
Adam Freedman ·
Oct 6, 2011 at 11:28am
If you’re contemplating law school, good news: You can, like, totally apply to law school on your iPhone. From Above the Law, comes news that Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School now allows applications via iPhone. According to an ABA report:
Alan Boyer, associate dean of recruitment and marketing, explains the impetus. “We want students to be able to come to a law school forum, tour our campus, talk to us and apply immediately. If they have to wait until they get home and turn on a computer, they may not apply,” he says in the press release.
Thank heavens for this new technology. If there's one thing wrong with American society, it's that too many of us are discouraged from applying to law school. (HT: Above the Law)
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Aug '10
Re: Law School? There's an App for That
If there's one thing America needs, it's more lawyers. Can you imagine a world without lawyers?
Re: Law School? There's an App for That
No - it makes me shudder, too! But I commend to you the 1939 book by then-Yale law school professor Fred Rodell: Woe Unto You Lawyers! He argues that the whole profession should be scrapped, and all contested matters settled by subject-matter experts rather than judges. He later announced that he would no longer use footnotes in his writing. After that, his academic career sort of stalled (but he wasn't fired -- tenure).
Sep '10
Re: Law School? There's an App for That
While we have you on the line, would you be able to venture an opinion (doesn't have to be 20 pages with footnotes, of course) on Scott Turow's One L? Not an opinion on Harvard Law per se, but the One L experience in general.
Re: Law School? There's an App for That
Pseud: I read One L years ago, but I recall that I didn't like it because of the tone -- whiny and self-important. Which is too bad because I think Turow's fiction is terrific. I didn't go to Harvard (I studied at Oxford and then Chicago), but I daresay that the book accurately describes the One L experience at Harvard at the time (that was before the Critical Legal Studies movement turned Harvard into an ideological battleground).
As for the One L experience, it will differ radically depending on the school. The one common theme is an intellectual journey. Legal reasoning -- like it or not -- has its own logic and its own vocabulary. In that sense, old Professor Kingsfield was right: it's about learning to think like a lawyer.
Jul '10
Re: Law School? There's an App for That
The problem is not a shortage of lawyers, but rather their distribution. One cannot throw a rock in the DC area without hitting a lawyer. I forget what the actual percentage of American lawyers in the DC area is, but it is double digits and never shrinks.
Feb '11
Re: Law School? There's an App for That
"If they have to wait until they get home and turn on a computer, they may not apply"
Really believes in his product, doesn't he?
If a car salesman knows that his product offering is nothing special, he's going to be especially interested in getting the prospect to sign the paperwork before leaving the dealership.
Oct '11
Re: Law School? There's an App for That
If people would stop screwing up, then there would be no need (for lawyers). *Also explains why there are so many in DC.