Law school ruin porn hits USA Today

I actually laughed out loud when I started reading this “yearlong investigation” by four USA Today journalists on the state of legal education. I call the genre, “law school ruin porn.”“Ruin porn” has long been a genre of photojournalism to display the decay of urban centers or Olympic sites. And I think the genre works for “law school ruins,” or exploiting details about the most marginal law schools and the most at-risk students, then treating them as typical of the profession.Here’s how the piece opens:Sam Goldstein graduated from law school in 2013, eager to embark on a legal career.Five years later, he is still waiting. After eight attempts, Goldstein has not passed the bar exam, a requirement to become a practicing attorney in most states."I did not feel I was really prepared at all" to pass the bar, Goldstein said of his three years in law school. "Even the best of test preps can't…

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