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Saving Lawyers from Themselves -- and From the ABA

By Robert J. Ambrogi

Here in Massachusetts where I practice, debate continues over a plan by the University of Massachusetts to open the state's first public law school. A key concern raised by the plan's opponents is that a new law school would only add more lawyers to an already-flooded market. That view is shared by lawyers in other states, who contend there are too many new law schools springing up and producing too many new lawyers. The situation has grown so dire that it calls for federal intervention, one such critic, Washington lawyer and writer Mark Greenbaum, writes today in the Los Angeles Times. He blames the glut of law schools -- and thereby of lawyers -- on the American Bar Association, which is charged with law school accreditation. The ABA, he contends, "continues to allow unneeded new schools to open and refuses to properly regulate the schools, many of which release numbers that paint an overly rosy picture of employment prospects for their recent graduates." Greenbaum's proposed remedy is to bring in the feds to oversee a coup d'état: The U.S. Department of Education should strip the ABA of its accreditor status and give the authority to an organization that is free...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).