A Law Worth Enforcing

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Law students are some of the brightest minds out there. So why are they facing trouble when trying to find a job after post-grad school? Well these students are however smart enough to realize that there's something wrong about this system. They see the fact that Law Schools tend to cost around $100,000 which is simply too much to ask a student to pay without any Governmental or NGO support. Students feel as though they are stuck and there's too hefty an investment to simply back out. The system needs a reform, and that's exactly what is being considered. What is specifically being considered is removing the third year required to graduate from Law School and become a practicing lawyer. This will essentially remove a large part of the cost that students face as well as streamlining the whole process. In addition to this many current lawyers are now criticizing the third year as being, "useless" and that they, "could have been lawyers after the 2nd year". All this coming together is looking like we'll be seeing a lot more lawyers a lot sooner.

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While this news won't affect me that greatly from an educational standpoint as law isn't one of my future endeavors, it will definitely affect my friends that are considering going into law. This will almost definitely sway them into choosing law as their major. The reduced amount of time spent in law school will increase the amount of time they spend earning money, therefore dropping the opportunity cost of taking law as a career path. With the passing of this motion we can predict that there will also be an influx of lawyers in the coming years. This can mean some good and bad things. For one, the large amount of lawyers might make a good lawyer more affordable to hire. But on the other hand this creates more competition to become a lawyer and a decreased chance for my friends to get into law school, and if they did they might get less money if the movement didn't imply an influx of lawyers. With all these pros and cons this story will be an interesting one to follow and see develop.