Lawyers no longer have a "money path"? Law school applications hit 30-year low

Lawyers no longer have a “money path”? Law school applications hit a 30-year low. The New York Times reported that because applicants are worried about soaring tuition fees,...

Lawyers no longer have a "money path"? Law school applications hit 30-year low The New York Times reported that the application rate for university law schools has hit a 30-year low as applicants worry about skyrocketing tuition fees, heavy student loan burdens, and no "money" path after graduation. The Law School Admissions Committee pointed out that as of this month, there are only about 30,000 students applying to enter law school this fall, a 20% decrease from the same period last year, and a sharp drop of 38% compared with 2010. In 2004, there were as many as 100,000 students applying to law school; this year there may be only half that, about 54,000. This alarming phenomenon has left law school administrators thinking about the future of legal education and the legal profession. Generally speaking, the reason why law schools are no longer popular is directly related to the poor employment situation. Many experts believe that legal professional jobs (such as lawyers) are gradually disappearing. In this era of Internet information explosion, it is faster and easier to research legal knowledge, and there are fewer and fewer places where lawyers are needed. And many lawyer jobs are being outsourced to areas with cheaper fees, such as West Virginia, and even overseas. Indiana University law professor William D. Henderson said: "We are going through a legal revolution... Thirty years ago, if you wanted to get ahead, you either went to business school or law school. But now law schools no longer work." Brian Leiter, a scholar at the University of Chicago Law School, wrote on his blog that he expects that as many as ten law schools may close in the next ten years, and more than half of law schools will reduce their size.