@bluebayou, all of those dumpy law schools should shut down. In my view, anything ranked 100 or worse in the US News rankings (or unranked) should be shut down. That would eliminate about 1/2 of all law schools.
Maybe the ABA could step in and push for minimum accreditation standards for law schools and tougher standards for bar exams, too? That would eliminate a lot of dumpy law schools and incompetent lawyers.
In addition, Congress is looking at messing with highly-endowed schools’ rights to use their endowments as they wish, with a goal of shifting more funds towards student expenses/tuition. Congress should back off.
The private sector could solve this problem if government would stop messing with the situation by flooding the legal education market with money.