A graduate of law school in the early 1960s usually received a bachelor degree known as an LL.B. This was a carryover from the eighteenth century, when a person could enter law school straight from high school. By the twentieth century law schools were requiring applicants first to earn a bachelor's degree in college. It seemed anomalous to many that, after three years of study, a graduate of law school received a degree of the same nature. As a result, a few schools began to grant a doctorate degree called a J.D. Most law schools chose to retain the old custom. But graduates from lesser-known law schools with J.D.'s began to find it easier to get jobs, and those working for the government were entitled to higher pay grades than graduates with mere LL.B.'s...