<p>Demosthenes49, that has not been my experience personally or with the students with whom I have worked. Law schools are not particularly generous with grants/scholarships, especially at top law schools, unless you are maybe 95th percentile or higher. At the 75th percentile you are not even guaranteed admission.</p>
<p>In fact, it is a common law school practice to offer some amount of grant/scholarship aid during the first year and then to offer less the second and even less the third year. Occasionally, a law school will offer a guarantee of the same amount of aid from year to year. I don’t know how frequently that occurs as a percentage of the total.</p>
<p>However, there are typically plenty of federal and private loans available (if you have good credit) to pay your tuition and other costs of attendance.</p>