There’s plenty of room for another Nashville law school
Adding another law school in Middle Tennessee only strengthens the area’s ability to develop talent and attract businesses, if you ask me. This is great news from Belmont, and I hope it will only challenge Nashville School of Law to offer even better training. Both schools and Vanderbilt should be able to coexist. It was unfortunate when Tennessee State University and NSL couldn’t work out a deal to merge and create another accredited law school in Nashville. Belmont’s plans to establish one of their own are welcome.
October 12th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
It seems to me that Belmont really has some visionary and smart people at the helm given the growth they’ve experienced over the last half decade or so.
Their efforts to really make Nashville the Athens of the South are truly to be commended.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I agree, Nathan. I’ve written before that this is not the Belmont that I knew growing up in Nashville decades ago. That Belmont was perfectly fine, but it was an insular organization that wasn’t thinking big about how it can contribute to Nashville or what it can accomplish as an institution. I’m so glad to see how Belmont has evolved, and I think it’s great for the city.
November 28th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Rob -
There is no need or demand for more attorneys in Nashville or any other U.S. City. Over 50% of vandy law schools class will be unable to find work as attorneys this year. Belmont clearly conducted a self serving feasibility study and plans to make $$$$$ by charging students $30k a year in tuition for a degree that will leave them $100k plus in debt and unable to find a job. This is a fraud and a scam!
December 1st, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Jeremy, thanks for commenting. Would you mind sharing the sources for your stats about demand for attorneys? I’m not particularly familiar with the legal world, and I’d be curious to see more about this.
I have to be honest that, from my relative distance outside the Belmont community, the university appears to be a decent “corporate citizen,” for lack of a better term. I have a hard time believing that this decision wasn’t based largely on a perceived need by prospective students.
January 26th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Rob,
Ironically, the LA times just published an article on the oversaturted legal job market and how university’s use law schools as a mint to print money. Just google ‘no more room on the bench’. Belmont is clearly motivated by greed and the “prestige” of having a law school. This degree will ruin these kids lives.
January 26th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Also, google the recent article released by a Vanderbilt law professor entitled “mama’s don’t let your babies grow up to be ….lawyers”.