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Law School Starts to Provide Real Education on Realities of Legal Job Market

By Carolyn Elefant

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Over on The New York Times DealBook blog, former Wall Street Journal Law Blog author Dan Slater takes the American Bar Association and law schools to task for failing to put a cap on school admissions at a time when law firms are slashing jobs, cutting salaries and canceling summer programs. Slater argues that both the ABA and law schools share some of the blame for the plight of many current law students and recent graduates who assumed significant debt on the belief that they'd be earning six-figure salaries but can't find employment. Slater writes that: The American Bar Association, which continues to approve law schools with impunity and with no end in sight, bears complicity in creating this mess. Yet a spokeswoman, citing antitrust concerns, says the A.B.A. takes no position on the optimal number of lawyers or law schools. Slater also argues that the law schools haven't been forthright about post-graduation employment prospects. Take, for instance, the employment statistics posted on the Web sites of three low-ranked law schools in New York City, the country?s biggest market for legal employment. All three advertise that 45 to 60 percent of their 2008 graduates who reported salary information are making...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).