It has been reported today that a law school will stand trial on allegations of fraud in luring applicants by inflated claims of employment statistics on graduation.
I am waiting for the brave soul who will be the first to file a lawsuit against a law school for failure to reveal to its students that their investment into legal education - the three years spent in law school, tuition-room-board-books-fees-travel expenses, student loans etc. are, in essence an extremely volatile investment which can evaporate if, on graduation, a student simply does his or her duty, as his attorney's office requires, and criticizes misconduct of a judge which is rampant across the country.
Law schools do not teach that if students do exactly what they are taught to do - represent their clients diligently and competently and apply their knowledge and skilled developed in the REQUIRED Constitutional Law class - they may be sanctioned for frivolous conduct (as I and numerous other attorneys were so far) and their law license may be suspended by the very judges whose misconduct the law graduates criticize.
Law schools do not teach that, if their law licenses are so suspended, law graduates will be unemployable as clerks, law secretaries and paralegals, positions available to people who never had a law degree in the first place.
For example, Massachusets rules ensure that a lawyer may not be employed by a law office even as a janitor.
A janitor who is a high-school dropout can fix a toilet in a law firm, but an attorney-turned-janitor cannot.
That is how this nation is utilizing the skilled labor and brains of their most honest and courageous citizens, attorneys who are taking on judicial corruption.
I encourage law students and those who are considering law school in the future, to ask a lawyer or a professor of legal ethics what to do if you've found out a judge presiding over your client's case did something wrong - received a bribe, engaged in ex parte communication, etc.
Watch their facial expression and body language carefully.
Those law students I know how asked that question and reported to me, reported that law professors visibly shrink, uniformly advised them to "appease the judge at all costs", and to never raise misconduct in court proceedings, nor discuss or report it, orally or in writing, with authorities, colleagues, staff, clients, neighbors or friends.
Because, the law professors told their law students, such a move would be a "career suicide".
But, those same professors did not say that out loud to an audience of law student, and said that in private, in hushed tones, one on one and looking (literally) around to verify if anybody else heard them.
Such is the honorable legal profession, the honorable professorate and the honorable judiciary that regulates that profession.
But, concealing the fact of just how volatile investment in legal education is, while knowing it - is a fraud.
And that fraud should be exposed the same way as fraud in employment statistics.
Because - if you did not get employed immediately, you can get employed at some point.
If you crash your law license by doing what the law school taught you to do in your mandatory Constitutional Law class - you won't be employed even as a janitor.
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