I am not sure what I think of this critique of legal education. But it got me thinking:

“Legal education should be training people in the skills that no algorithm will ever replicate: how to listen to a frightened person and figure out what they need. How to counsel someone through an impossible choice. How to negotiate across a power imbalance. How to sustain a practice that serves people who have been failed by every other institution they’ve encountered. How to be, in the fullest sense of the word, a counselor.

These are not soft skills. They are the hardest skills in the profession. They take years to develop, cannot be downloaded, and require a human being who has accumulated judgment through experience and failure and the slow, patient work of showing up.

They are also, not coincidentally, the skills the profession most needs right now — and the ones it has done the least to teach.”