In approximately eighteen months, I will begin law school and follow in the enormous footsteps of such people as Barack Obama, Judge Judy, Abraham Lincoln, and Tucker Max. Three years of my youth will be spent toiling away in libraries, fiercely competing with intellectuals to fit INFINITY into our brains and set bell curves. However, our memorizing and wading through all of law-textual history may soon be for naught; the future of law is on the internet, and anyone may read and understand it.
Law appeared in many different forms throughout history and it currently manifests itself in the USA as miles of indecipherable legal-ese and text books. As more laws were added and more loopholes discovered, the language of law necessarily became more complex to avoid further complications; this, though, created more problems. Now, intense schooling is required to understand the vast amounts of data in law and there is a movement to make it more accessible to the public online.
Perhaps the lawyer of the future will not wear suits or drive a nice car. He never refers to his “billable hours” and needn’t memorize countless texts. The lawyer of the future could be you or me; he will be able to understand the spirit and the letter of the law easily–so that he who defends himself may not have a fool for a client.
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Good luck in law school. Being a law student myself, I can confidently say that I’m not worried about any internet law schools. They simply wouldn’t be demanding enough to put lawyers through the grinder like a real law school does.
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