Law student filing lawsuit isn't anything new. After all, they are studying to become lawyers.
But this one is a bit unique: Law student Morgan Crutchfield, a part-time student at Lincoln Memorial University's Duncan School of Law is suing the school for letting her enroll in it in the first place!
Crutchfield said in the suit she informed administrators at the law school immediately after learning she was lacking a foreign language requirement to graduate from Pennsylvania State University in 2009. Officials at Lincoln Memorial, however, told her it wouldn't be a problem so long as she completed her undergraduate degree before her final year of law school, according to the lawsuit.
Emails exchanged between Crutchfield and administrators over the last three years, outlining her academic requirements, are included in the court documents.
Last month, the state Board of Law Examiners informed Crutchfield that rules require her to have completed her undergraduate degree before beginning law school in order to sit for the state bar exam.
Over 2 1/2 years, Crutchfield has accumulated 54 course credits and nearly $80,000 in student loans at the Duncan School of Law, according to the suit.
Something tells me she will be a fine, fine lawyer one day: Link
Where does the responsibility of the student and the school become the deciding factor. Is it the responsibility of the school to make the student take the required courses to graduate. Or is it just the schools responsibility to tell the student these are the classes needed. Anyone who goes to college knows that you could easily spend the rest of your life taking classes and never actually graduate with a degree.
She fell for an obvious scam, but that doesn't change the fact that she was scammed. There's plenty of blame to go around.