Comments on the Latest Developments in Mississippi Civil Litigation
The Nonsense Factory by Bruce Cannon Gibney is a scathing critique of the American Legal System. A venture capitalist and former big firm litigator, Gibney knows his subject.
There is a lot to criticize in the legal system starting with law school, and Gibney touches on most of it. His criticism of law schools is…
Last week the Mississippi Supreme Court amended the Rules Governing Admission to the Mississippi Bar. Here is the Order.
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The Legal Skills Prof Blog ran this post about the legal industry losing 2,400 jobs in November. This followed gains in September-October.
Overall, the industry lost 100 jobs in the last 12 months.
My Take:
Another reason to avoid law school.
I don’t know why the industry isn’t growing. My guess is technology is eliminating…
The new phone book is here! The new phone book is here!
Maybe not. But that’s still one of my favorite movie scene 40 years later.
But the passage rates from the July 2018 Mississippi Bar exam are in: 58.8% passed.
A bit over 4 out of every 10 failed. Some would call them…
The ABA reports that the legal industry lost jobs for two months in a row. The combined jobs lost for July and August was 4,200 jobs. 200 fewer people work in the industry than this time last year.
Among the fields categorized as ‘professional and business services’, the legal industry is the only one losing…
Too much credit in the markets fuels bubbles. The most notorious example in recent memory is the subprime mortgage crisis that caused the Great Recession in 2008. Some people say we are currently in a sovereign debt bubble that is causing a bubble in all asset classes. The jury is still out on that one.…
Written in 2016, this Steven Waechter article calling law school financial suicide is still on point today. The article contains important facts and great analysis:
Of those, about 354,000 were self-employed sole practitioners, and they were earning an average of $49,000 in 2012 according to the IRS, a 30 percent decrease for that cohort since
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There was a front page article yesterday in the Clarion-Ledger about the 53% passage rate in Mississippi for the July Bar Exam. It opens:
Entering the legal profession in Mississippi is once again proving difficult for those seeking to become a licensed attorney.
The July Mississippi bar exam results released last week showed about 53
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On Monday I wrote about an Above the Law article that portrayed Mississippians as dumb. I wasn’t a fan.
But my biggest complaint was the article’s suggestion that there is a shortage of attorneys in Mississippi:
Mississippi is a state that desperately needs attorneys. According to the Mississippi Access To Justice Commission, almost
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We’re just a bunch of morons here in Mississippi. That’s the theme of this recent Above the Law article by Joe Patrice discussing the 36% pass rate for the February Bar Examination. From the article:
Few things are certain in this life, but one of them is that Mississippi will find a way to be
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