@riana @Popehat You've said it best. I've seen a lot of responses to this that are couched in what would be best for society / how an ideal world should operate.

Lawyers intending to practice law in the messy, historically-anchored, closest-thing-we-have-to-consensus world of actual legal practice in the United States don't have that luxury if the want to *be practicing lawyers,* and the actions of the school training them to do that should be understood in that frame.