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&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, while I was writing about law students lack of the skills that law firms look for in associates--namely writing, teamwork and analytical skills--Vault&#39;s Senior Law Editor Brian Dalton was writing about how law students :&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;At The Lawyerist, a tech entrepreneur sends a message of hope to newly minted lawyers facing a bleak job market.  From a businessman&#39;s perspective, law grads are &quot;great hires&quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/blogs/YoungJDs.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Young lawyers looking for law jobs&quot; width=&quot;318&quot; height=&quot;226&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you made it through three years of law school, you&#39;re probably pretty smart, or at least know how to BS, which is one of life&#39;s most critical skills. You&#39;ve been tried and tested, and you&#39;ve survived a competitive and difficult environment. Stick-to-it-iveness is hard to come by. You exhibit pragmatism, choosing a career which, at least when you signed up for school, offered a solid life plan for employment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You know how to write. You&#39;re a good communicator with a keen analytical mind. You can sift through mountains of information and pick out key pieces of salient details. In fact, you learned ideal high-level, general skills that can help you in any industry or business in the modern marketplace. We&#39;re in an information age, and your training equipped you better than most on how to make decisions in an increasingly noisy and complicated world.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?  Do law students, and by extension law schools, have a bad, undeserved reputation as theory-wonks?  Or are new JDs really unprepared to enter the legal industry?  Are law schools doing their students a disservice by not admitting they are, ultimately, vocational schools?  What say you, blogosphere?&lt;/p&gt;

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