Dean Mitchell Continues to Bury Head in Sand

Dean Mitchell Continues to Bury Head in Sand

  Just saw this over at TaxProf: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects there will be 74,000 new lawyer jobs this decade, while American law schools will produce more than 400,000 graduates. “It’s not clear to me there’s an oversupply...
What is the “Law School Disaster?”

What is the “Law School Disaster?”

  Early this month, Kyle P. McEntee, Patrick J. Lynch, and Derek Michael Tokaz, the founders of Law School Transparency, released a paper entitled “The Crisis in Legal Education: Dabbling in Disaster Planning.” The abstract: The legal education crisis...
Young Lawyer: Are You Really A Failure?

Young Lawyer: Are You Really A Failure?

  By now I presume that everyone has read the op-ed in the New York Times by Case Western Reserve’s law school dean, Lawrence Mitchell, entitled “Is Law School Worth the Money?” In the op-ed Dean Mitchell makes the pitch that going to law school...
State of the (Alabama) Bar

State of the (Alabama) Bar

  The Alabama State Bar just released the following report: Thirty-four percent of Fall 2011 new admittees who responded to a survey conducted by the Alabama State Bar indicated they graduated from law school with educational debt in the range of $100,000 to...