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There is now a consensus critique of legal education, reiterated in the mass media and fostered by lawyers and law professors in scholarly works and in legal blogs thriving on the case against law school. David Segal in the New York Times helped disseminate this view nationally and internationally, putting the blame on law school greed and overregulation by the American Bar Association. 1 The best statement of this argument is Brian Tamanaha's Failing Law Schools. 2 The basic idea is that the combination of educational debt and a poor job market means that law school for most individuals is simply a bad investment. The investment pays off, according to this perspective, only if law graduates secure positions in corporate law firms, since the salaries of those who work outside the corporate sector are much lower-too low to service the debt and enjoy the traditional economic benefits of a professional degree …