About 15 years ago, I was speaking with a friend who was a partner in a national law firm, and I asked him what he thought about law students at that time. He said that he was not impressed by many and particularly tried to avoid interviewing applicants from Yale, since they had loads of useless theories in their heads, but little practical knowledge of our legal system. Training them to be good lawyers for his firm took too long.
I mention that to get into the topic of this article by attorney J. Christian Adams. He writes, “This assault on American values, constitutional liberties, and our treasured limits on government power almost always starts with a lawyer, somewhere. And the lawyers from elite law schools are leading this assault.”
He’s right. Many of the “best and brightest” in those elite law schools have no interest in mundane things like a well-written business contract. They want to transform America and know that law school is their stepping stone.
This is the first of ten articles that will examine the “elite” law schools, and Yale is put under a microscope first. Read the whole thing here.