<p>Hey Guys,</p>
<p>I was looking through the online application and under the program options you can still pick the Accelerated JD/BA program. Is this a faulty error or what because I heard from plenty of sources that it is no longer active</p>
<p>Any feedback appreciated</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I heard this as well? I would like to know if this is confirmed! BUMP</p>
<p>Pick up the phone.</p>
<p>Call the department.</p>
<p>Ask.</p>
<p>These type of programs (which are not uncommon) are not a good idea. Law firms want gravitas as much as good grades. A kid who is yet another year younger won’t provide that. Law schools want experience and gravitas and the average age of entering law students is often around 25. You save a year of undergrad tuition. Big deal. I strongly attempt to dissuade people from doing this. I am against these type of hurry up programs for professionals. People use them as prestige hound trinkets anyway. blah blah blah.</p>
<p>Do yourself a favor. Go to undergrad…do four years, work hard-have fun-grow up. Then perhaps work a year or two…think about law school really hard before you go to make sure you really want to become a lawyer. (I started a thread on an article by a kid who went to Rice, then UCLA law school, then worked at Latham and Watkins as an associate for six years, then left law practice and wrote a book about it…a scathing book on the profession, its demands and problems. Go to that thread and read the article.)</p>
<p>As our economy is changing STRUCTURALLY before our very eyes, the needs of our society will change…and I have news for you…the mid six figure corporate lawyer is going to be a dinosaur…already firms are sending legal work to India by the internet and then signing off on the work in New York! </p>
<p>There will always be need for criminal law specialists, family law specialists etc. But the days of wine and roses are over. We have too many lawyers chasing too few high end clients and that will effect how law firms hire and fire. Forever. Law firm mergers will pick up speed as partners are desperate to regenerate themselves and keep revenues high enough to justify their “salaries” (partners share), and its going to be a very turbulent period. A high percentage of law graduates are forced to hang out their shingles, burdened with debt from student loans and facing a very difficult time trying to make a living. (That poses unique ethical pressures on lawyers as well…as we all know human nature is that desperate people do desperate things…)</p>
<p>Its not a pretty picture. Sadly.</p>
<p>Be warned.</p>