We used to think it was telling that the New York Times started reporting (rather regularly, we might add) on the relationship between law schools and the underemployment facing lawyers in the US. Then it was the Wall Street Journal…
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total number of lawyer jobs in the U.S. is expected to rise …to 801,800 by 2020. In 2010, there were 728,200 U.S. lawyer jobs. That means we’re looking at a projected increase
It will come as scant surprise to our throngs of loyal readers (especially to those readers who thronged to this post) that the New York Times is again covering the implosion of the law school bubble.
In Monday’s Opinionator …
Twenty-seven days ago, the New York Times OP-Ed page ran a piece by a senior Brookings Institute fellow named Clifford Winston. The piece was entitled, “Are Law Schools and Bar Exams Really Necessary?’… It concluded—flatly—that law schools and bar exams
Online newsmagazine Slate checked in yesterday with this story… about how law schools acting in their own financial interest are creating an oversupply of debt-laden grads who cannot find jobs in the legal profession. While the article doesn’t contain much
Watch this. I did. Then I laughed so forcibly that the bad, tepid coffee I was trying to choke down spit-sprayed all over my computer. Now I have to call IT. They will not amused. But you will be amused. …
Tuesday’s Boston Globe carried this front page story… about the new University of Massachusetts School of Law.
Before we dig into it, a bit of background: for the past several years, the Massachusetts Legislature and Board of Higher Education have
Note: Akshara Kannan was a completely great 2009 Brightleaf summer intern. We miss having her around. But here’s the next best thing: during the year, she will occasionally share her thoughts here on how contemporary legal education is preparing her…
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