Sufflolk Law School Professor Andrew Perlman sent me off on quite
a tangent last week, with his guest posting at Legal Ethics Forum
on “Misleading Law School Promotional Materials” (April 13, 2005)
So, I thought I better at least get a posting out of it.
It seems Andy is worried that shady law school promotional tactics are
misleading and unfairly enticing the nation’s law school applicants. To avoid
hypocrisy and unpleasantly surprised students or graduates, Andy wants to apply
the same “strict” advertising criteria to schools that are applied to lawyers (although
he thinks the restrictions should be lifted from lawyers). I wasn’t sure that the
crisis was as big as Andy suggested, or that we should worry too much about
law school applicants (since they can and should protect themselves); check out
our conversation at LEF.
After doing a bit of research and reflection, I came to the following conclusions:
Naturally, it’s absolutely improper for law schools to be using deceptive
tactics in the admissions process [unless used to weed out particularly credulous
or lazy applicants!]
– click to read the entire post which opines:
“Given the existence and accessibility of this
information, the importance of the decisions,
and the kinds of skills and attitudes a good
lawyer needs, I cannot agree with Andy Perlman
that we should feel a lot of sympathy for “naive”
or ignorant law school applicants-turned-student.”
prairie twilight…
the glow of the cattleman’s
branding iron
Ed Markowski
during discussion
on the meaning of life . . . the crunch
of a student’s apple
George Swede
from Almost Unseen
pencil shavings
the student’s tongue
curls and uncurls
DeVar Dahl
from A New Resonance 3
potluck
Word for the Wise just had a great entry to honor the birthday
of Clarence Darrow (b. April 18, 1857), quoting him saying: “Inside
every lawyer is the wreck of a poet,” and presenting a poem by his
onetime law partner, poet Edgar Lee Masters entitled “Clarence Darrow.”
by dagosan:
a young man’s
erotic dream —
the old man’s bladder wakes him
[April 18, 2005]
admissions week —
two fat envelopes
and two skinny ones
[April 16, 2005]
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