<p>Northwestern’s admissions policy essentially requires work experience. That helps quite a bit in the recruiting process.</p>
<p>It’ll improve somewhat. How much is anybody’s guess. It would be foolish to attend law school expecting a dramatic improvement. Bluntly, at the worst parts of the economy, probably only six schools were worthwhile investments. Even if things improve considerably, there’s a lot of law schools that were never good bets.</p>