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Law Professor Supports Scambloggers, Calls for Colleagues to 'Wake Up to Casualties of Our Enterprise'

By Bruce Carton

Over at the Balkinization blog, support for the growing legion of Scambloggers who want to keep you from going to law school has come from an unlikely source: St. Johns University School of Law Professor Brian Tamanaha (pictured). Tamanaha, the Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law, as well as a former Interim dean of the School of Law in 1998-1999 and Professor of the Year in 2001, wrote yesterday that it was time for his fellow law professors to "wake up to the casualties of our enterprise." Tamanaha asks law professors to take a hard look at blogs such as Third Tier Reality, Esq. Never, Exposing the Law School Scam, Jobless Juris Doctor, Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition, which he believes "make a strong case that something is deeply wrong with law schools." The present dismal employment situation "was not created by the current recession -- which merely spread the pain up the chain into the lower reaches of elite schools. This has been going on for years," he writes. Tamanaha seems to agree with the assertions repeated throughout the Scamblogosphere that law schools pad their employment figures -- 96% employed -- by counting as "employed" any job...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).