As I have occasionally mentioned here, I have been working since late 2024 on a project to expose and reform the metastasizing corruption in the legal profession involving mass torts, litigation finance, and recent loosening of law firm structure regulations. My merry band is making progress…I think… but the depth and breadth of the dishonesty and greed in the legal system has been a nasty revelation. I am quite disillusioned about it.
The fraud, crimes and misconduct involve major firms, legal associations, bar associations, judges, doctors, lawyers of course, legislators, hedge funds and lenders. The victims are plaintiffs, veterans, families, ethical but unsuspecting lawyers, and the justice system itself. When I attempted to bring my own bar association into the campaign to clean up the mess, and warned that its failure to adequately police its members was a significant element of the scandal, I was suddenly and without explanation dismissed as the bar’s primary legal ethics CLE trainer after 30 years.
It would be strange indeed if the legal profession is becoming increasingly unethical and addicted to cheating while college students are moving in the opposite direction. But hey…I’ll take my hope however I can get it.
Ethics Alarms 
It must have been in the late 1980s Mrs. OB and I took our then early teen children and a friend of theirs to Palo Alto to watch Notre Dame play a football game against Stanford. During half time, the snotty Stanford band, famous for not wearing uniforms and not marching in any organized formation, were led around the field by a drum major wearing clerical garb and a papal mitre while keeping time by waving a papal ferula (the rod with a knob on top surmounted by a cross). It was probably the most crass, insulting thing I’d ever seen.
You would be amazed at the amount of babying that goes on in colleges now and how many people are pomoted far above their competence. Students come in and won’t read instructions or course material or textbooks and then claim they are confused and need help, expecting tutors to do all the extra work for them because they don’t come in even trying to be prepared.
Professors are not even allowed to fail students who are using AI to write papers even when the student admits they did so.
The whole culture on college campuses is far downward, and then they wonder why people want to cut funding to higher ed. The humanities are especially bad because measuring performance is much more difficult and seems to attract people who aren’t good at much else.
If a math professor teaches something incorrectly, it’s easy to see. When you get into the mushy subjective stuff, it’s much harder to evaluate, and I say this a strong believer in the arts and humanities. The area has become so overrun with progressivism that it is going to end up making itself irrelevant if something doesn’t change.
So, seeing this, I am not surprised at all. This has been my experience as well.
The problem with the ADA stuff is that it is the perfect example of bureaucracy. Poorly trained ADA staff evaluate a student’s disability claims. Doctors freely hand out ADHD diagnoses to the point that there are districts where almost every single male student has ADD or ADHD. The professors are then given the ‘accommodations’ and is expected to follow them. The only exceptions are when to do so would be illegal or impossible given physical limitations. There is no accountability anywhere. Everyone is ‘just following orders”. My favorite ones are the students who can only have classes between 10 AM and 1 PM M-Th and the person who couldn’t have their tests printed double sided because they had a ‘disability’ that made them forget to check the back. To question the validity of the diagnosis of accommodations is a potential ADA violation.