Poke Holes in a Dean's Argument Forum

[drive4showLSAT4dough]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/opini ... ml?hp&_r=0&

I'll start:
1. Debt, too, is a problem. The average student at a private law school graduates with $125,000 in debt.
2. But the average lawyer’s annual salary exceeds that number. The mean salary for all practicing lawyers was $130,490.
3. But, in 1998, (only) 55 percent of law graduates started in law firms. In 2011, that number was 50 percent. A 9 percent decline from a previous low during the worst economic conditions in decades hardly seems catastrophic.

So, law school's cost is not a recent, catastrophic problem, its a long-term, systemic problem, because half of the people who go to law school won't get the kind of jobs that give them a fighting chance to repay their debt.

[Chaucer1343]

"I’M a law dean, and I’m proud. And I think it’s time to stop the nonsense. After two years of almost relentless attacks on law schools, a bit of perspective would be nice."

The proud law dean assumes that the prior "relentless attacks" on law schools were without perspective.

[dowu]

The salary number doesn't differentiate between lawlyers who started in 1975 and those who are recent grads.

[bk1]

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 0&t=199009