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• Student debt will reach an average of $210,796 in 2015, says LST

  May 16 2012 Law School Transparency, a group dedicated to improving consumer information concerning the value of legal education, has updated its estimates of the amount of... more

• Hastings College of Law cuts admissions

  May 08 2012 The University of California Hastings College of Law has decided to admit 20% less students this year, as part of an effort to shift legal education to better respond... more

• American Bar Association pushes for early release of jobs data

  Apr 25 2012 The American Bar Association is putting pressure on law schools to report on graduate jobs data one year after graduation, rather than continuing the current practice... more

• Law school applications drop while tuition continues to rise

  Apr 13 2012 Above the Law has run a long campaign to inform prospective law students of the risks they run in investing time and money in a law degree when the job market is in... more

• The law schools that bestow the largest debt burden

  Mar 27 2012 As high-paying graduate jobs become ever more scarce in the US, the debt burden carried by law students is becoming a point of considerable controversy. US News... more

• Paul Campos proposes 30% cut to Stanford Law School's fees

  Mar 13 2012 The debate over law school fees is a controversy that seems to continue without precipitating a whole lot of change for the better. Now, Paul Campos has proposed an... more

• 85% of law schools give grads less than 10% chance of a biglaw job

  Mar 02 2012 The National Law Journal’s ranking of US law schools placing the highest percentage of their 2011 graduates in large law firms shows that graduates of Penn and... more

• Debate over the value of law school hits the mainstream

  Mar 01 2012 The debate over whether law school provides sufficient value to justify its huge costs – which has intensified as the job market has shrunk in response to global... more

• Recession-era measures seem as though they are here to stay

  Feb 02 2012 The cost-cutting measures undertaken by law firms in the recession – including smaller entry-level classes, stagnant salaries and an impossibly long road to... more

• Majority of US and Canadian law students are satisfied with law schools, says survey

  Jan 18 2012 A new survey has found that the vast majority of US and Canadian law students are satisfied with their educational experience. The 2011 Law School Survey of Student... more

• University of Chicago Law School publishes employment data

  Dec 17 2011 US law schools have come under fire for a failure to provide sufficient graduate employment data to prospective students. While students continue to enroll in law... more

• Law schools encouraged to teach practical skills

  Nov 24 2011 In the current economic climate, law graduates face a tough job market and an increasing number of corporate clients that would really rather not pay for their... more

• US law schools under Senate scrutiny

  Nov 16 2011 The US legal education industry appears to be under Senate scrutiny, with reports surfacing that Senate staff are gathering statistics on graduate employment and... more

• ABA considers requiring law schools to publish scholarship data

  Sep 08 2011 The question of whether US law schools are over-promising and under-delivering remains a hot topic, with the American Bar Association revealing that it is considering... more

• ABA under pressure to better regulate legal education

  Jul 25 2011 Enrollments at US law schools have continued to climb despite worsening job prospects, leaving many graduates with debt burdens of $120,000 or more, and no real way to... more

• Three US law schools trim class sizes in response to tough job market

  Jun 27 2011 Three US law schools have announced plans to cut down their class sizes in response to the tough job market for qualified lawyers. Creighton University School of Law... more

• Law graduates beat job market by launching their own firms

  Jun 21 2011 Here is an interesting article on law graduates that deal with the tough job market in the legal services industry by striking out on their own – launching new firms.... more

• New law school in Indiana reopens debate about oversupply of lawyers

  May 19 2011 A new law school will open in the US state of Indiana 2013, bringing the number of law schools in the State to 5. Plans for the new school, to be launched by Indiana... more

• US News ranks law schools on basis of graduate starting salary

  Mar 31 2011 US News, those inventive list makers, has come up with yet another ranking system for prospective law students: “10 Law Degrees With Most Financial Value at... more

• Legal education must change

  Apr 28 2010 Law firms have had to make some big changes in response to the global financial crisis. But the legal education industry has not made any discernible changes to the... more

• Transparency for law school stats?

  Apr 20 2010 A new not-for-profit organisation called Law School Transparency will allow prospective students to access and compare detailed employment and salary information for... more