{"id":4094,"date":"2013-08-23T18:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T23:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2013-08-23T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T19:53:42","slug":"two-and-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4094","title":{"rendered":"Two And Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama commented today that <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/23\/obama-law-school-should-be-two-years\/\">law school should be two years instead of three<\/a>. He\u2019s right. While I enjoyed my 3L year and took some interesting classes, it didn\u2019t teach me anything that would have made me a better attorney. If it\u2019s possible to earn a master\u2019s degree in two years, a law degree shouldn\u2019t take any longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s a doctorate!\u201d you say. Shut up. We\u2019re not learning how to cut people open or teach particle physics. Two years should be enough time to learn the necessary writing and critical thinking skills that most attorneys need. Law schools will likely resist any change that would result in lower revenue, but perhaps a few courageous deans will implement this idea and other schools will be pressured to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>What do my fellow attorneys think? Did that third year impart crucial wisdom to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama commented today that law school should be two years instead of three. He\u2019s right. While I enjoyed my 3L year and took some interesting classes, it didn\u2019t teach me anything that would have made me a better attorney. If it\u2019s possible to earn a master\u2019s degree in two years, a law degree shouldn\u2019t <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4094' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-20-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-142","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}