Ranking Over Money

crankyoldman
Mon, 01 Feb 2016 01:07:50 +0000

It’s also important to factor in college debt when making the decision to attend any graduate school, especially law school.

And from the ABA: “Revised outlook for lawyer jobs is glum.”
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/revised_outlook_for_growth_in_lawyer_jobs_is_glum/
Basically 15,700 new lawyer jobs on average per year, while law schools pump out 40,000 new JDs per year, more than double the number of attorneys needed-per BLS.
And it’s not as if there’s guaranteed salary growth if you do get a lawyer job:
http://qz.com/392091/a-statistical-breakdown-of-how-recent-law-school-graduates-are-utterly-screwed/

OP hasn’t been back in over a week, but in the event s/he is reading this, my advice would be to think very, very carefully about attending law school.