Law School Discussion

 
A T4 that is known to produce excellent attorneys? I doubt you're going to find any of those.  Being known to produce crap attorneys (or grads who can't pass the bar at all) is part of how a school winds up in the fourth tier.

The typical law student and lawyer is hypomaniac: someome with an elevated mood, irritable, his thoughts racing, a tendency towards people-seeking, hypersexuality, grandiose thinking, religiosity, and pressured speech. Hypomania is a less severe form of mania without progression to psychosis. Many of the symptoms of mania are present, but to a lesser degree than in overt mania. People with hypomania are generally perceived as being energetic, euphoric, overflowing with new ideas, and sometimes highly confident and charismatic, and unlike full-blown mania, they are sufficiently capable of coherent thought and action to participate in everyday life.

Although hypomania sounds in many ways like a desirable condition, it can have significant downsides. Many of the negative symptoms of mania can be present; the primary differentiating factor is the absence of psychosis. Many hypomanic patients have symptoms of disrupted sleep patterns, irritability, racing thoughts, obsessional traits, and poor judgment. Hypomania, like mania, can be associated with recklessness, excessive spending, risky hypersexual activity, general lack of judgment and out-of-character behaviour that the patient may later regret and may cause significant social, interpersonal, career and financial problems.