Those who create and profit from a problem should be responsible for solving the problem as well. Third, schools can, better than anyone else, provide egalitarian access to training, rather than letting it rest on luck, family connections and random chance. Law schools should do what all other professional schools do and that which no other group can. Law firms used to provide the training. We have a problem because law firms have been unable, and clients unwilling to pay for, the continued training and absorption of new lawyers.
Conclusions There are three real alternatives available to fully and properly educated law students.
The ABA limits should be scrapped, the beginning of which came with the ABA consent decree. The following steps need to be taken to improve legal education and to create a proper environment for supervised clinical legal education. To improve the law schools economics, Drop the ABA's approach to libraries, publish or perish, law professor's course loads and similar matters out of the year 1890 and require professors to teach twelve credit hours a term. Lawyers bill 1,700 to 2,400 hours a year. Law professors can work that much as well.