I’ll skip down to where Joe Patrice of Above the Law criticizes HuffPo’s listicle item by item.

Another Stupid Defense Of Law School From HuffPo

1. Know Your Rights: Or pay attention in your high school government class and you’ll know just as much as a law student about your rights. But this is as good a place as any to point out that all 22 items on this list fall into three basic categories: (a) stuff that suggests that lawyers have magic powers, (b) stuff that’s blatantly untrue, and (c) stuff that’s true, but kind of irrelevant as between going to law school and “doing a million other things that adults do.” As the list goes on, each of these makes the flimsiness of the law school argument more and more apparent.

2. Contest a Ticket Like a Boss: I forgot about NYU Law’s Traffic Law Clinic. Seriously though, you will learn nothing in law school that will help you contest a ticket because there’s nothing in traffic law that makes any goddamned sense anyway. If you try and challenge a ticket, here’s what happens: You take time out of your work day to show up and wait around for an hour, then the judge comes in and hugs the officer who is obviously his brother, then you pay your fine and walk out. A deep understanding of Delaware’s corporate governance laws provides little comfort.

3. Make Any Agreement Iron Clad: High-end litigation is mostly about how gaggles of the smartest lawyers in the world routinely fail to make agreements iron clad. But, yeah, a law student can probably do better out of the gate. To be fair, one actual reason to go to law school is to confuse normal people into thinking you can make an agreement iron clad. Which is something, but probably not worth the debt.

4. Become an Interview Snob: Absolutely correct. You will be going to plenty of interviews as you become ever more desperate to find work in this market.