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The Careerist: Optimistic and Smug

By Vivia Chen Contact All Articles 

The Am Law Daily

February 6, 2013

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Forget last week's dire reports that some law schools won't survive. So what if law school applications have dropped 20 percent since last year? And who cares about that nonsense about making law school more relevant?

Chill. Nothing is changing. As I've often said, law schools will survive even an apocalypse. They're like cockroaches.

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