Ok, last chart for awhile. I’m a lawyer, all this math is making my head hurt. I was speaking with someone yesterday regarding the decline in law school applications from top universities. She asked if I had numbers on colleges where the application rates to law...
As people seem to enjoy charts, here’s another one. What we have here is the number of lawyers in the United States (as per available data) contrasted with the population of the United States. While US population growth has been low (and dwindling) for decades,...
Since people seem interested in the trend of top university students avoiding law school, here it is in graph form as lawyers are bad with numbers. We’re audio-visual learners. Top University applications to law school plotted over five years. Not looking good....
Maybe they don’t like the job prospects? The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) regularly puts out data on law schools, students, applicants, etc. A poster over at JDU had some free time and made an observation today about law school applicants. 2008...
The first day on the job for a new lawyer is overwhelming. Theoretically, law school has prepared a new lawyer to be a functioning attorney. In reality, most new lawyers are clueless. Especially K-JDs.* Most new lawyers wouldn’t be able to find the...