Tuesday, August 5, 2008

The Best Legal Advice You Will Get All Day

Don't hold the fact that he's a Regent University Professor against him.


UPDATE: Two things. First, fair warning, it's long. About 27 minutes. It's pretty entertaining IMHO, but then again I'm a lawyer so be warned.

Second, I'm not trying to be a snob with my comment about Regent, or at least not an academic one. Regent University School of Law "seeks to admit students who are serious about the critical roles they will assume as future counselors, conciliators, defenders of the faith, effective client advocates and followers of Christ." While there is nothing wrong with being a follower of Christ, I have a bit of a problem with limiting one's admissions to a professional school in this way. To my mind this is like a carpentry school that seeks students who are serious about woodworking professionalism and who are over 6' tall. Being 6' tall might help one be a carpenter, but it should hardly be part of the admissions criteria. In addition, Regent and some of its grads has featured prominently in the US Attorney scandal, especially it's, er star? student, Monica Goodling, who basically admitted in congressional hearings to criminal acts (oh, and this report by the Department of Justice concluded the same thing).

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