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The Numbers

26 Monday Jul 2021

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From Scotland:

More lethal than Covid

 The Scottish government has reported the following:

A freedom of information request made on the 30th January asked the Scottish Government to reveal the total number of people who had died of Covid-19 since March 2020. To which the Scottish Government responded on the 11th March 2021 with – “The answer to your question is 596 deaths involving COVID-19 has been registered where there was no pre-existing medical condition between March 2020 and January 2021….

The most up to date figures published by PHS and within the report released by on the 23rd June 2021, and they reveal that between the 8th December 2020 and the 11th June 2021 a total number of 5,522 people died within 28 days of having a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

So, 59.6 people per month died of Covid (as opposed to WITH Covid), while 788.9 people per month have died within 28 days of being injected with a Covid vaccine. That suggests – it does not prove, but it suggests – that the Covid vaccines may be more lethal than the disease they are supposed to prevent.

Perhaps 13.5 times as deadly – based on the short-medium-range damage. As is usually the case, the evil ones openly publish the truth. They then rely on the fake media to spin lies. The retarded, faithless public falls for the lies almost every time. That’s why they’re dying. There may be no stopping it.

Reading The Law: The Ancient Alternative to Law School

07 Monday Dec 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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A few days ago I wrote a column about the trials and tribulations of a beautiful, talented young woman enrolled and embattled at the Moritz College of Law at THE Ohio State University. I’ve also written about my legal education.

Law schools have become a collection of expensive but houses where, if one can tolerate the boredom and foolishness, one is allowed the honor of applying for a state license to practice law. The courses studied in these schools bear little resemblance to the actual law. Graduation does not guarantee admittance to the Bar. Bar test preparation is left to the student once he graduates.

Many determined and intelligent students will succeed on their own merits. A few law schools do a fair job readying students for the profession; most are dismal in their attempts. Alan Watson, of whom I have sung praise before, is the preeminent expert on legal philosophy. He wrote a book, The Shame of American Legal Education, which should be required reading for any American giving serious thought to attending law school.

Watson decries the lack of intellectual rigor and dependence of the case method (religious study of court interpretation of the law) which plague American law colleges. He praises the system of his native Scotland where students attend school for a shorter period of time and actually learn both the letter of and the ideas behind the law. Following graduation the Scots apprentice under established barristers to round out their education and transition into the field.

It’s a far better approach than we Americans use. It is similar to our old system which we adopted from the British. They had adopted it from the Romans and the Greeks.

For ages attorneys were educated men who studied the law under the tutelage of a practicing attorney. A few had a short period of standardized class time at a college. This formal lecturing range from a few weeks to a year. Upon completion of the apprenticeship the budding lawyers were either certified by a local court or eligible to sit for Bar examination (if any) or they just started working on their own.

The institution was known as “reading the law.” Most of the greatest attorneys of history were produced this way. Their ranks include: Solon, Cato, Cicero, St. Thomas More, William Blackstone, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Jay, Lysander Spooner, Abraham Lincoln, James Byrnes, and Robert Jackson. All of these men were accomplished attorneys. Some were titans of the field.

Marco_Porcio_Caton_Major

Cato the Elder.

In America this was the standard of legal instruction from colonial times until the early 20th Century. The College of William and Mary was the first American school with formal law lectures. These were designed to enhance the student’s apprenticeship. Jefferson attended lectures at William and Mary.

Young men were encouraged to read the law, to understand theory and application:

If you are absolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself the thing is more than half done already. It is a small matter whether you read with any one or not. I did not read with any one. Get the books and read and study them in their every feature, and that is the main thing. It is no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people in it. The books and your capacity for understanding them are just the same in all places.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln, 1855

Things began to change in the late 1800s. It was then the newly formed American Bar Association began to lobby states to restrict licensing to those who had attended law schools. Later the ABA commenced its practice of certifying the schools. This cartel approach of command and control protected the monopoly of the existing bar members. The results, from a quality viewpoint, were mixed. Blackstones and Jeffersons are hard to come by these days.

The radical expansion of law school power coincided with the massive growth of government. Both resulted in the growth and increased complexity of the laws. As Cicero noted, more laws means less justice. Of course, justice had nothing to do with these trends. They were premised entirely on control and money.

Nonetheless a few states still adhere to the reading tradition although it is frowned upon. Those who stand to lose prestige and tuition frown a lot.

California, Maine, New York, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington still allow reading in place of law schooling. Each has its own standards and in some a period of law school attendance is required. Out of over 80,000 new lawyers minted in 2013, less than 100 read the law.

The surviving process of reading has been lauded of late by Business Insider and the New York Times. Both note the difficulties faced by a reader.

“The A.B.A. takes the position that the most appropriate process for becoming a lawyer should include obtaining a J.D. degree from a law school approved by the A.B.A. and passing a bar examination,” said Barry A. Currier, managing director of accreditation and legal education for the group.

Robert E. Glenn, president of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, was less circumspect. “It’s a cruel hoax,” he said of apprenticeships. “It’s such a waste of time for someone to spend three years in this program but not have anything at the end.”

NY Times.

Of course, anything but the cartel’s way is a hoax. The frowners frown. Never mind the vast number of students who drop out of law school or graduate but cannot pass the bar. At least they paid tuition.

A few organizations exist to perpetuate the old tradition. Sterling Education Services is one. “What if, instead of a traditional law school degree and six-figure debt, you could take the bar exam and achieve your goal through hands-on legal experience?” – Sterling. These groups offer study aids and seminars. They’re looking to cash in on the alternative. Then again, these are the exact same bar prep services law school graduates turn to immediately after law school.

Though frowned upon this ancient alternative is viable. If a lawyer reads the law in a reading state and passes that state’s bar, he can then apply in other states. It would certainly warrant examination by those considering the legal profession. Those who follow this path follow in the footsteps of giants.

Legal “Education”

12 Tuesday Mar 2013

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This post follows Muddling Through College.  It is intended as a truthful assessment of what life in law school is like and the relationship between legal education and the practice of law and society in general.  As with my undergraduate article, I realize that my experience is dated by a good decade.  Actually, it’s been a pretty bad decade – especially for the legal industry.  Therefore, again, I have tried to incorporate “modern” materials herein as well.

I once heard attorney-turned radio talk show host, Neal Boortz state that when he began practice law in the early 1970s, the law was still a profession.  He then said when he left the law in the early 1990s to pursue radio full-time, the law had degenerated into a trade.  Several times I recall him saying the happiest day of his life was the day he put his status with the Georgia State Bar in the inactive category.  I will update his cycle now – the law has further degenerated into a racket.

The average attorney is greeted by society with all the warmth and affection people normally reserve for a visiting termite.  I hear lawyer jokes every week.  Most are pretty damn funny.  I am one of the few attorneys not offended by these jokes.  Most attorneys do get offended even if they don’t show it.  The reason is that most know the jokes have a great basis in truth and they don’t want to admit the facts.

Mr. Boortz once said, speaking of attorneys, “No other group has done more to help and to damage our society.”  He’s right.  Lawyers were behind the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, the civil rights movement, and numerous other causes for freedom.  You never hear lawyer jokes in a criminal court.  In a jail holding area or cell block, we are greeted like rock stars.  However, pick any oppressive, illegal, dishonest, or otherwise unsavory law, business, or relationship and you’ll find lawyer DNA all over it.  As a judge I once clerked for said, “It’s amazing how bad most attorneys are.”

The bad begins in law school.  There are about 200 law schools in America which have received the ABA’s seal of approval.  There are more which operate by special rules within their respective states.  U.S. News and World Report ranks and categorizes law schools every year based on a set of semi-relevant criteria.  Schools fight hard to place high on the list.  I don’t see the point.  Judging by the performance of their graduates, all the schools seem equally bad.

prof law

(This cat never practiced law and won’t teach you anything.  Google Images.)

Max “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” Tucker wrote an awesome article, http://lewrockwell.com/orig14/max-t1.1.1.html, on reasons NOT to attend law school.  Read it!  I agree with every single thing he said.  By the way, I fell under the Want To Change the World category.  I learned its damn near impossible to change a neighborhood, let alone the world.  And, most people don’t want any change – they enjoy their serfdom.

After four (or 6, 8, etc.) years in college one must score decently on the LSAT and submit a rigorous application in order to gain entry into even the lowest ranking law school.  Once there, one is suddenly trust into an environment that eerily resembles high school.  That’s the law school effect, everyone reverts to teenager-ish behavior and attitudes.  Nothing is actually taught in law school except how to look up information and fill out forms.  You can learn a thing or two in a specialized elective class but nothing therein will appear on the dreaded bar exam of any state.  Given the sad state of the profession, dependant on the exam’s function as a brutal hazing to enter the fraternity, you would think law professors would concentrate on the subjects covered by the bar and the methodology employed for the tests (Byzantine).  They do not.  In fact, after graduating you MUST take a private prep course in order to have any chance of passing the test.  I theorize that any well-educated person could take such a class and pass the bar.  I was not supposed to tell you that.

The majority of instructional time is instead devoted to instilling reverence for the system.  Courts, judges, and their opinions (case-law) are sold as the Gospel.  Rebels like me are interested in core concepts behind the law and the betterment of humanity.  The average student simply accepts the drivel and becomes a system cog.  As I have stated elsewhere, the average lawyer does not know and does not care why we have law or where the law comes from.  Natural Law may as well be officially forbidden by the ABA.

Once one passes the bar and gets that first legal job another enormous short-coming becomes alarmingly clear.  Law schools do not prepare anyone to practice law.  A friend of mine, a Federal Magistrate Judge once asked me, “Remember when you got out, and knew nothing?”  New attorneys are thrown to the wolves.  Half can’t hack it; I think 50% is the current percentage who leave the law sooner than later.  The other 50% live in a nightmarish state, dreaming of getting out. 

In the old days, and in a few foreign countries (Scotland comes to mind), students of the law would apprentice with an existing attorney or law firm for a number of years in order to prepare for actually practicing law.  They would simultaneously “read the law” on their own to gain a full understanding of core concepts.  After satisfying their mentors, the apprentices would be admitted as attorneys, with or without examination.  That’s how Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abradamn Lincoln and Cicero did it.  Today, only California, Maine, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington still allow “reading” and I imagine it is discouraged.  This process denies law schools reason to exist and deprives budding young lawyers of their $100,000+ school loan debts.  Students might also emerge ready to practice if allowed to study under a competent attorney.  I’m not supposed to tell you any of this.

I have applied for several positions, academic and administrative, at a variety of law schools of late.  I am hoping my experience will give me an advantage.  One would think it was.  I make a particular point to explain that I want to help as many young people as possible actually prepare for the racket….er…profession.  Oddly, many law professors have never practiced law a day in their lives, many aren’t even members of a bar.  It makes sense, in a way, as law school has absolutely nothing to do with practicing.  That evil bar exam (truly a horror worthy to justify the myths) has nothing to do with school or practice either.  Like the schooling, it’s just there – an unavoidable obstacle to tackle.

Law students become attorneys disillusioned, in debt, unprepared, and in today’s market, with slim job prospects.  Most new attorneys today, who can find a job, earn less than $60,000 per year.  The big bucks go to the elite few who land jobs with major law firms.  At those firms, newbies (with all the problems I mentioned) can start at $150,000 or better.  For that pay, they have to “bill” 2500 hours a year.  Billing 2500 means working 4000; that means working 80-100 hour weeks, every week, for about $30-$40 per hour.  Tucker gives examples of jobs that pay that well, don’t require all the time and hassle, and don’t necessitate wasting 3 years in law school.  Remember, those are the best of the best jobs.  Most big firm associates wash out quickly or else end up in mental institutions or under bridges.

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(Welcome aboard, young associate.  Google Images.)

Ponder what I have written here if you think you want to join the lawyer club.  Some people are meant to be attorneys and will do well at their chosen work.  Most will drudge on miserably until the retire, die, or go nuts.  Some, like me get out.  Well, I’m trying to get out.  Leaving the law can be like leaving a street gang.  You have to walk a gauntlet to exit.  Please pray I make it.  As for you, avoid the whole racket if you can.

PS: I issue a challenge to all attorneys and law school faculties!  Change the system!  Concentrate on the theory and the practice of the law itself and dispense with the case worship, the obsolete mysteries, and the false illusions of nobility.  For you, read Alan Watson’s The Shame of American Legal Education, 2d ed. (Vandeplas Publishing, 2006).  Watson, of Scottish legal training, nails the problems of the American system.  Let’s change it.

Perrin Lovett

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