Laying down the law school.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Practice of law - Brief Article

Rebecca Carroll of the Associated Press recently came up with an interesting story about lawyers who haven't gone to law school. Four states allow would-be lawyers to take the bar examination and become licensed by going through an apprenticeship with practicing attorneys. I approve. After all, that's just what Abe Lincoln did.

Law schools have always seemed like a racket to me. Their real purpose is to provide nice jobs for the faculty and provide three years during which the law student, who often goes to law school to mark time while he decides what he really wants to do, to make up his mind, or at least pacify his...