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Vegan Commie Atheist's avatar

This seems like a perfectly, and predictably, terrible idea, emanating as it does from the boneheads who gave us Purdue Global.

Concord is a pretty scammy institution -- see, for example, this: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/executive-jd-ejd-concord-law-school. More generally, its bar pass rate is low, and, according to its own reporting, only about 50% of its graduates wind up employed as lawyers. Which means that the other half of its graduates -- who skew older, poorer, and more ethnically and racially diverse than most law school graduates -- probably wind up saddled with significant amounts of debt accrued simply to acquire a useless degree.

The shortage of lawyers in poor urban and rural communities is a scandal. But it's a classic example of market failure that can't be solved by marginally increasing the number of heavily indebted new lawyers (and heavily indebted wanna-be lawyers who can't pass a bar exam or get a job.). The solution to the problem almost certainly involves increased state and federal funding for lawyers serving low and moderate income client populations, and loan forgiveness programs for law school graduates who commit to serving those communities. The plan being advanced by the shills for Concord Law School is just boneheaded bullshite.

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Mike Dwyer's avatar

I wonder if it would make sense for Purdue to try to seek ABA certification by requiring the last year to be on a Purdue campus.

I’m not sure what else is required but I don’t lessening the standard to be a lawyer is a great idea.

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