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The Guilded Age

By Jim Chen et al.

From The Guilded Age (a.k.a. The End of the American Lawyer's Guilded Age), my contribution to the The Online Library of Law and Liberty:

In our time, the free movement of labor, capital, and information has created a global economy that moves by the gigahertz. In this economic milieu, education is worth what its purchaser can earn with it. . . . Legal education is what enables students to earn a living in life, and nothing more pretentious.

My commentary appears alongside two responses:

• Walter Olson, The Self-Sustaining Guild: American Lawyers Will Still Own the Future


• Brian Tamanaha, Legal Education at the Intersection of Two Guilds

Full post as published by MoneyLaw on July 04, 2012 (boomark / email).