{"id":109,"date":"2005-08-29T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T18:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/08\/29\/entry-barriers\/"},"modified":"2005-08-29T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T18:59:01","slug":"entry-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/08\/29\/entry-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a904'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Law students love to complain that they don&#8217;t need three years of law<br \/>\nschool.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a widely held belief that one year or eighteen<br \/>\nmonths of training would<br \/>\nsuffice (by one&#8217;s third year, the hostility towards going to class is<br \/>\ncollective and palpable).&nbsp; But the three-year slog through school,<br \/>\nits price tag,<br \/>\nand the oh-so-frustrating Bar Exam do have the added effect of reducing<br \/>\nprofessional competition, allowing my hourly rate and salary to remain<br \/>\nsomewhat steady.&nbsp; Unlike the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2124506\/nav\/tap1\/\">low entry barriers<\/a> that make real estate careers less lucrative than they appear in this market.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>On a different note, I picked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/discuss\/msgReader$905?mode=day\">variation of these Marc Jacobs ballet flats<\/a><br \/>\n(choco brown, not black, suede, not satin), discounted by 70% at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkmetro.com\/pages\/details\/254.htm\">Century 21<\/a>.&nbsp; Why would anyone pay full price for Marc Jacobs<br \/>\nfootwear?&nbsp; They&#8217;re priced in the $300 range, but their sale price<br \/>\nis a better reflection of their quality level (I&#8217;m scoffing at the very<br \/>\nidea of associating the word &#8220;workmanship&#8221; with his shoes).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"rgb(204, 0, 0);\">Edit: Just to be clear, I am well aware that Marni is the new Marc Jacobs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law students love to complain that they don&#8217;t need three years of law school.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a widely held belief that one year or eighteen months of training would suffice (by one&#8217;s third year, the hostility towards going to class is collective and palpable).&nbsp; But the three-year slog through school, its price tag, and the oh-so-frustrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}