What could be done to solve the apparent "law school crisis"?

[zaprowsdower]

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@Pea

It was the ones who could expand their vision of what they could do and who would settle for a lesser salary than what they had expected to earn who fared better.

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<p>I’m not sure this is an issue for many law grads. I don’t think the problem is people holding out for biglaw jobs despite having no real chance of landing one and turning down lower-paying jobs in the meantime. If anything, the problem is sort of the opposite: people tend to assume there will be more decent, if lower-paying, options than there are, and believe that a JD will open far more doors in other fields than it actually does.</p>

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I also think it is important to note that at the end of the article on page 7 Mr. Wallerstein said that he wasn’t sorry about getting a law degree

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<p>It’s a good illustration of a mentality that leads people to apply to terrible schools. If you believe that simply becoming an attorney is prestigious and impressive, then you can justify going to Thomas Jefferson School of Law.</p>

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@NYU2013

The problem is that there aren’t enough jobs in the legal field for the number of people graduating. That has nothing to do with ability to take out loans to go law school.

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<p>This doesn’t make any sense. The fact that there are more graduates than jobs has nothing to do with how easy it is to get a loan to go to law school?</p>

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@Greybeard

I’m not sure who would is in a position to compel law schools to reveal information about themselves, other than their prospective students.

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<p>The ABA, obviously. They already require the schools to disclose a lot of information about themselves.</p>