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Top 6 Extracurricular Activities in Law Schools & Firms Discover the top six extracurricular activities in law schools and firms that can enhance your legal education journey. These activities provide practical experiences and essential skills for success in the legal field.

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Getting in the best awkward position for the shot #probonowork (at Ygnacio Valley High School)

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So far what my Editing time looks like for one of my projects #probonowork #adobepremiere

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Lawyers should NOT do pro bono work.

The American Bar Association, a far-left organization for lawyers, encourages lawyers

to donate fifty hours of “service” to the “community” (including religious groups, poor

folks, civil rights organizations, etc). Many Americans think that this is a kind gesture of

the ABA, a sign that it cares about ensuring that legal services can be made available to as

many individuals as possible. Just the opposite is true. The American Bar Association is

committed to very high legal fees from now to eternity.

The American Bar Association provides accreditation for 200-member law schools in

America. This accreditation process reduces the flexibility of law schools because they are

required to spend money on things that they otherwise would choose not to spend money on

simply to please a committee of elite lawyers who are committed to high legal fees. Yes—

that is the secret of the American Bar Association: the main reason for its existence is to

make law school as expensive as possible, which reduces the supply of new lawyers, and

also ensures that lawyers must charge very high billable hours simply to recoup the cost of

attending law school.

The American Bar Association has been successful in its efforts to raise the wages of

attorneys. According to the Department of Labor, the median annual wage of all attorneys

was $110,590—and that’s in 2008! The results have not been so great for the consumers of

legal services, however. There is no free-market for legal services. Attorneys must go to law

schools, which are restricted and regulated by the state, and pass a bar exam that is regulated

by elite attorneys who are committed to restricting the supply of new attorneys. As a result,

attorneys can charge these inflated rates knowing that some organizations and individuals

will pay for it. However, a lot of individuals don’t get legal representation at all because they

can’t pay for the artificially high wages that attorneys charge.

1 in 9 Americans filing for bankruptcy do so without an attorney. Bankruptcy is

complicated and confusing, but Americans can’t afford an attorney because attorneys have

created a highly regulated monopoly. In California, 4.3 million individuals are self-represented!

67% of petitioners are self-represented. For individuals being evicted from a leased property,

90% are self-represented. In general, 80% of poor Americans who need civil legal aid receive

none at all. The American Bar Association believes that the only way to fix the problem that

they created (imposing high costs on those training to be lawyers and thus reducing the supply)

is to ask lawyers to work for free! This is immoral for several reasons.

For one thing, by asking lawyers to provide their services for free, it creates the artificial

image that the legal profession “cares” (is altruistic) towards the public and actually places the

needs of “the public” over the needs of the legal profession. This is false and evil. Why would

law students accept $100,000 or more in debt in order to provide free legal services to the public?

Like any other valuable product or service, you get what you pay for. The public should

not expect any “free” legal services from attorneys. In other industries, people don’t expect

freebies. Accountants don’t work for free. Neither do engineers. The only way to ensure that

individuals can afford legal services is to liberate the profession such that it has a real market for

its services, rather than the artificial supply dislocation that has transpired for decades. Instead,

we only need to look to why the high prices exist in the legal profession rather than try to create

a “band aid” by ignoring where the genuine problems arise.

Legal services are highly regulated at every possible level. Law schools seek the

prestigious “American Bar Association” approval, but in doing so, the schools lose the flexibility

to run their school in a manner that reflect the best judgment of the management of that law

school. For instance, the American Bar Association regulates how many minutes of instruction

time a student must endure prior to graduation; the amount of time spent in school (two years is

the minimum number of years) required to get a JD; a ban on outside employment for more than

20 hours per week; regulation of distant learning courses; etc, etc. Further, the state bar

association of every state in the union requires that law graduates pass a bar exam which asks

questions that are completely unrelated to the type of questions that attorneys are likely to

encounter in the legal profession. There is no evidence whatsoever that such tests ban

incompetent individuals from the practice of law. All of these factors discourage individuals

from applying to law school, force out students who are discouraged by the process, and bans

perfectly capable individuals from the practice of law who are unable, for one reason or another,

from passing a bar exam. A better answer would be to allow any individual to practice law,

especially civil law, but to inform clients of their level of education and experience in handling

the matter in question. Not every part of the law is complicated or impossible for a novice to

figure out. A lot of legal matters are routine and should not require a law degree. Deregulation

worked for the airline industry, and it will work wonders for the legal profession. Let’s try it.