{"id":4830,"date":"2004-05-14T17:58:55","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T21:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/05\/14\/law-school-deprivation-syndro"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:46","slug":"law-school-deprivation-syndrome-in-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/14\/law-school-deprivation-syndrome-in-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Law School Deprivation Syndrome in NC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My eyes filled with tears, as I learned the plight of the Tar Heel state — too few lawyers, due to having too few law schools, resulting in a severe case of Law School Deprivation<\/STRONG> Syndrome <\/STRONG>[“LSD<\/STRONG>“]  for North Carolinians.  (See News-Observer<\/EM>, <\/FONT>State ripe for new law school<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/A>, 05-13-04; <\/FONT>Southwest Virginia Law Blog<\/FONT>, “Terrible lawyer shortage<\/A> in North Carolina leads to new law school efforts”)<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"squeeze\"  How bad is LSD in North Carolina?   Despite our Editor’s college minor in economics, we never knew that the market<\/EM> for law schools was so sensitive to the economy. Leary Davis, founding dean of Campbell University’s law school, explained in a recent interview<\/A> that “Demand for law schools goes in cycles, surging during economic slumps<\/STRONG>. During the past few years, the job market has been poor, but placement of law school graduates has ‘just been phenomenal’.” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Consider further:<\/FONT>
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