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Nov 15 2013
The predicted bursting of the US law school bubble is under way, according to Professor Paul Campos, who estimates that 80 to 85 percent of law school are operating at...
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Oct 12 2013
Above the Law points out in this article that Law schools seem to be very good at upwardly revising fees, but that they seem to be doing a poor job of estimating...
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Jul 23 2013
As job prospects for newly qualified solicitors diminish, law schools across the US are seeing decreasing demand and adjusting their legal education programs to suit....
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Nov 14 2012
The effort to litigate against law schools for publishing false information about employment statistics has suffered another blow, as a Chicago judge dismissed two...
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Aug 22 2012
The average tuition for law school in the US has increased by more than double the rate of inflation, despite a drastic decline in the number of applicants over the...
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Jun 19 2012
The American Bar Association says that just 55% of US law school graduates in the class of 2011 have found employment in full-time legal jobs.
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Jun 07 2012
This article looks at the crisis in legal education and proposes reform to the federal loan system and to the American Bar Association-imposed accreditation standards...
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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...
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May 03 2012
Columbia Law School has changed the way it reports employment statistics for it graduates, after critical reportage in The Post last month.
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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...
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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...
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Aug 19 2011
The folks over at Above the Law predict an imminent student loan default crisis as a result of high tuition costs and poor job prospects faced by graduates. “For many...
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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...
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Mar 18 2011
Law school application numbers are finally beginning to reflect the poor job prospects for graduates, dropping 11.5 per cent to 66,876 over the past year. The Law...
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Feb 03 2011
The College of Law in the UK has announced that it will offer a law degree. The dgree will take just two years to complete, and will carry fees of £18,000 - nearly...
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Jan 13 2011
The New York Times has published an article that describes the financial hell faced by US students who have taken on huge student loans to pay for legal education,...
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Sep 20 2010
Citibank has entered into an agreement for the sale of The Student Loan Corporation to Discover Financial Services. Under the deal, Discover will become the owner of...
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