{"id":16038,"date":"2011-01-09T17:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T21:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=16038"},"modified":"2011-01-09T17:58:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T21:58:53","slug":"a-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolution-for-law-students-organize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/09\/a-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolution-for-law-students-organize\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year\u2019s Resolution for Law Students: Organize."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**********<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/lawschooltuitionbubble.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/2011-01-09-no-more-title-iv1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Matt Leichter <\/em><\/strong><em>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com<\/span>) <strong>(Saitama-ken 2003-05)<\/strong> is a renegade attorney who plays by his own rules.\u00a0 He operates a think tank of one, <\/em><a href=\"..\/..\/Old%20Desktop%20and%20Documents\/All%20DOCS\/2009%20Post-Grad%20School%20Era\/2009-06%20Professional%20Docs\/BLT\/lawschooltuitionbubble.wordpress.com\"><strong><em>The Law School Tuition Bubble<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>, where he archives, chronicles, and analyzes the rising cost and declining value of legal education in the United States.\u00a0 He also maintains the \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bankruptcybill.us\/category\/culture\/blt\/\"><em>Bankruptcy Legal Topics<\/em><\/a><em>,\u201d and, \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bankruptcybill.us\/category\/culture\/bankruptcy-billables\/\"><em>Bankruptcy Billables<\/em><\/a><em>,\u201d sections for Steven Horowitz\u2019s <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bankruptcybill.us\/category\/culture\/bankruptcy-billables\/\"><strong><em>Bankruptcy Bill<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.\u00a0 For further reading regarding JETs and the law, he recommends <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/jetswithjds.wordpress.com\/\"><strong><em>JETs with J.D.s<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know already, the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/09\/business\/09law.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=2\">New York Times<\/a><\/em> ran a seven-page article in its business section detailing the crisis America\u2019s legal education system faces.\u00a0 It even generously linked to <em>The Law School Tuition Bubble<\/em>.\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 The whole article is worth the read, but towards the end it erred:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, American law schools are like factories that no force has the power to slow down \u2014 not even the timeless dictates of supply and demand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is one force that can stop these factories: law students.\u00a0 Find out why I think they should <a href=\"http:\/\/lawschooltuitionbubble.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/09\/my-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolution-for-law-students-organize\/\">organize<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>********** Matt Leichter (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) (Saitama-ken 2003-05) is a renegade attorney who plays by his own rules.\u00a0 He operates a think tank of one, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where he archives, chronicles, and analyzes the rising cost and declining value of legal education in the United States.\u00a0 He also 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