<p>And academics think attorneys are ethically challenged! As the NYT article points out, the reason for all these law schools is that they are absolute cash cows for the universities. What other kind of graduate program can get away with huge lecture classes with a guy with a blackboard in front of the room? (As the article notes, you add 25 students to a large lecture and one million dollars just dropped to the bottom line.) They probably don’t even have to have their own extensive law libraries anymore (which used to be the biggest non-salary cost) since everything can be researched online these days.</p>