Full Record

1. Introduction -- Part I: The market for lawyers -- 2. Birth, death, rebirth, near death: American lawyers from 1776 to 1950 -- 3. From boom, to two professions, to big law's slumps: American lawyers from 1950 to the present -- 4. Death from above: big law stumbles -- 5. LegalZoom and death from below -- 6. Death from the state: tort reform, judicial hostility, and budget cuts -- 7. Death from the side: more lawyers fight for slices of a smaller pie -- Part II: Law schools -- 8. A brief history of American law schools -- 9. The bleak present and near future for law schools -- Part III: Big picture and the glass half full -- 10. Big picture and parallels -- 11. The good news for American consumers -- 12. The profession and law schools that emerge will be stronger and better -- 13. Conclusion