Comments on: Law school applications plunge

By: steve mansfield

steve mansfield — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:58:41 +0000

I went to a tier one school and graduated in the late 1970s; my third year tuition was $3600. This year the same school charges $44000. This is a thirteen-fold increase yet the average starting salary, outside of the biggest firms who hire only the very top grads based on GPA, has gone up less than threefold over this period. I blame the overavailability of student loans, misleading information released by law schools as to employment prospects for new lawyers and the fact that there are only jobs for less than half of each year’s new grads as contributing factors. I would advise any young person contemplating law school not to do so unless he/she has a hookup that can guarantee a job upon graduation or has the credentials to get into an Ivy League or equivalent school. Otherwise, you are giving up three years of your life and accruing a huge debt that will burden you for life with minimal prospects of paying it off.

By: mjs

mjs — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:52:43 +0000

This is a win-win for future American competitiveness. Some of our best and brightest may be deterred from a parasitic relationship with American business to a creative one.

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:14:33 +0000

The motto for successful plaintiffs’ lawyers is “they made it and we stole it!” The drop in law school applicants reflects the truth that pot is not infinite.

But one has to wonder if the law school applicant can be productive. All the effort on the silicosis fraud didn’t produce real wealth.