How many Law Schools have you been to? I’ve been to a few and they are all POSH! I mean seriously fancy, wood paneled walls, marble floors, tall ceilings, statues and other fancy decorations. At my alma mater the law school was a palace, while I crossed my fingers every time I used the elevator in the physics department, as a disabled wheelchair user getting stuck in the rickety old rat trap would not be fun, trust me I’de use the stairs if i had a choice.

Bottom line, the only reason it costs 50 Million to start a law school is the lawyers want it to. The all want to make piles of money. I’m sorry buy most lawyers are the biggest hypocrites on the planet, charging $350-$500 an hour just to return your email, with a 10 min minimum when it took one minuet at the longest to write and send the two sentence response to a simple question. They profit from the fiction they are some how worth the huge sums they charge and all work in collusion to fix the prices at levels no other profession can get away with, may of whom have as much if not more education and often actually produce something of lasting value to society. There is no question that resolving disputes is important, but is it really more important that actually providing a positive good or service? It is really just a drain on society.

A law school could be quite cheep if setup that way, they need no lab equipment, or consumable materials to use in experiments, if the book makers did not introduce a new version of each book ever year or two the same books could last for decades, especially in light of the fact that most “revisions” just involve changing the order of the practice problems in the ends of the chapters. Education is being made expensive to exclude those that can’t pay and extort as much as possible from those who can. This also leaves many students with huge student loans to pay down, so they must charge unfair rates to pay of the loans that go to making the school like a palace. What a waste. So please all you lawyers out the talk a good hard look in the mirror and ask yourself honestly is what you do fair and honest? The face looking back may answer NO!

Law schools need at least $50 million to get started, he said, and have much higher operating costs — including career services staffers and admissions teams — than in the past. Moreover, public law schools, which can charge lower tuition, require states to kick in the shortfall, he noted.
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202421786165&slreturn=1

Law School Will Cut Staff To Trim Budget
Acting Dean says layoffs are inevitable due to drop in endowment payout
Published On Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:43 PM

By ELIAS J GROLL
Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard Law School will lay off staff members in response to budgetary constraints imposed by University administrators, acting Dean Howell E. Jackson said Monday.

The likely layoffs come amidst continued estimates of a 30 percent decline in endowment value by year’s end and a corresponding reduction in the endowment payout—a major source of funding for the University’s different schools that accounts for 40 percent of the Law School’s annual revenue.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528124

This couldn’t be more wrong as far as law schools are concerned. Law schools are veritable cash-cows for their respective institutions.

The fault is clearly with the writer, Lessig, in this case for being unclear, likely to intentionally overstate his case.

It’s too bad bloggers and lawyers can’t write as clear as say a typical journalism major like Sarah Palin.

It would be great if the LSAC made their stuff available more cheaply, and if they are turning obscene profits or paying their executives obscene salaries, then that’s certainly something worth criticizing. Otherwise, I see the argument in principle, but I don’t really see a practical issue. Aren’t there way more exams/questions available for free or cheap for the LSAT than any other major standardized test?

@ Jardinero1: Clever troll. I must acknowledge your subtlety. You come across as so very sincere.

Is the professor’s problem with profits, taxation or the fact that he was fooled by the euphemism?

In addition to being unfair to the (relatively) poor, it does strike me as being an economically inefficient misallocation of human resources that only a lawyer-designed system would produce.