I was walking through the airport in San Fran when I saw this billboard …
Now I accept I didn’t go to university.
I acknowledge I got 2% in Mrs Kirk’s math class.
But even with that incredible lack of academic achievement, the last thing I equate with innovation is the legal industry.
Especially the highly litigigous American legal industry.
I appreciate a lot of this view was influenced by my Dad and his experience and work in the US, but it doesn’t take much digging to see the role of the US legal industry is to provide rich clients with the assurance no one can question, challenge or undermine them.
In other words, oppress rather than liberate.
Which is why I think what the ad should say is:
Come to the University of New Hampshire. We’ve been helping stifle progress, fairness and justice since 1866 … that’s even before the American bar association.