It's time to put the "versatile juris doctor" argument to rest before it becomes entrenched. Decades ago, the ABA asserted that post-undergraduate legal education was necessary to train effective lawyers, although its actual, semi-stated goal was to wall the profession off from people with undesirable origins and creeds and to ape the similarly consolidated medical education system.
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The Juris Doctor is 'Versatile' Thanks Mainly to Numerous Logical Fallacies
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