Another New Law School Being Explored

From the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette:

FORT WAYNE – The Indiana Tech Board of Trustees announced Friday the creation of a committee to look at the feasibility of opening a law school in Fort Wayne.

The committee will submit a preliminary report and recommendation to the board May 13, according to a written statement from the university.

Let me give you my recommendation: no.

Often, you'll see people list reasons not to go to law school, and I feel like someone should start making a list of reasons not to start a law school.

Here's one:

The American Bar Association has a rigorous accreditation process, [Allen County Bar Association President] McNamara said, and if a law school can successfully attain that, it would be worthwhile to the community.

"It might get accredited" is not a good reason to start a law school, not that the ABA actually has "rigorous" standards, anyway.

Here's another silly justification for law schools:

The state has four law schools now...

That, McNamara said, is about average for a state this size.

The creation of a law school, though, would fit nearly perfectly with the mission statement of the local bar association, he said.

Is your bar association's mission to have a second unemployment office just to cater to indebted and unemployed lawyers?

I'm personally surprised existing schools aren't looking at opening satellite campuses a la Cooley. But at this point, I'm not even sure I can take these articles seriously, because wanting to open a new law school is worse than buying suburban real estate in 2006.