Oh, goody, more lawyers:
Convinced that Indiana needs more lawyers, Indiana Tech plans to open the state's first new law school in more than a century.
"We haven't had a new law school open in Indiana since 1894," Arthur Snyder, president of the private Fort Wayne-based college, said Monday. "It's about time we did."
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The law school would open in the fall semester of 2013. A nationwide search for a founding law school dean is under way, Snyder said.
The state now has four law schools, which enroll avout 3,000 students a year. Snyder says that "is not enough to meet the demand for legal services in Indiana" and that our state ranks 44th in the nation in the number of working lawyers, with a ratio of one lawyer per 447 residents (the nationwide avearage is one per 263).
But the more lawyers we have, the more we need. Each lawyer has to find work to do, and what better way than to find nuances, exceptions and loopholes not found in the law before by anyone else? And a lot of the lawyers end up in legislative bodies so they can create still more laws to house still more nuances, exceptions and loopholes. Enough, already!
