A recent encounter with a fellow law student went something like this (I should qualify that this took place in a bar, and said student was a bit intoxicated):

Dear Editor,

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done. That's what Oscar Wilde would say about MLawLive. There was (and continues to be) no central clearinghouse for information on news, events and deadlines at Michigan Law School, and MLawLive has done more to hurt than help that problem. The site suffers from an attempt to integrate various legacy systems, rather than starting anew. It also suffers from a classic problem in design: the "we can do it ourselves" mentality that dismisses the talent and value that is added by people who do graphic and information design for a living. In 1968, Melvin Conway said that organizations that design systems are constrained to produce designs that are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. Designers have fought against this unnecessary bureaucracy and hierarchy of design to produce elegant and beautiful systems for years. This isn't something you can do yourself after reading a book on HTML 4.