05/07/2019 – Program to Relieve Student Debt Proves Unforgiving – Wall Street Journal
12/14/2018 – The 2018-19 Bottom 10 Law Schools – The Faculty Lounge
09/01/2018 – The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America’s Student Debt Machine – Mother Jones
05/04/2018 – Public Servants Do Get Student Loan Forgiveness. Meet One of the First. NYT
07/17/2017 – As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away – NYT
07/15/2017 – The Lawyer, The Addict – NYT
06/13/2017 – The Law School Brain Drain Continues to Wreak Havoc – ATL
06/12/2017 – Fewer Law School Applicants in Line for Upcoming School Year – Law.com
07/11/2016 – ‘I’m A Student-Debt Slave.’ How’d We Get Here? – NPR
06/27/2016 – ABA May Be Stripped Of Power To Accredit New Law Schools – ABL – Good… about time someone stopped the fools from continuing to blithely flush the industry down the toilet.
04/04/2016 – ITT Tech Sued for Deceiving Students About its Computer Network Systems Program and Success in Finding Jobs – Mass.gov – read this and try to figure out how this is different from law schools. It literally is the argument used in the suits against law schools, yet apparently they only pursue it against the less profitable degree mills.
01/13/2016 – I’m a Lawyer. I Hate It. What Now? – Slate
01/08/2016 – Study: Future Lawyers Are Hiding Depression and Drug and Alcohol Use – Bloomberg Business
01/04/2016 – The End of Lawyers? Not So Fast. – NYT
12/11/2015 – Who’s Profiting From $1.2 Trillion of Federal Student Loans? – Bloomberg
09/13/2015 – Gaps in Earnings Stand Out in Release of College Data – NYT
08/25/2015 – How Are Lawyers Managing Their Law School Debt? Most Will Never Be Able To Pay It Off – ABL
08/22/2015 – 7 Million People Haven’t Made A Single Student Loan Payment In At Least A Year – Zerohedge (The blog is a bit on the fringe, but the numbers are enlightening if even partially true)
08/20/2015 – Are Lawyers Getting Dumber? – Bloomberg Business
07/07/2015 – Second Circuit Takes Firm Stance On Educational Value Of Being Poor – ATL
06/08/2015 – Plan to forgive for-profit college loans could cost taxpayers billions – Miami Herald -Notable for a few very interesting reasons… #1. The new loan-forgiveness process revolves around a long-overlooked provision of federal law that lets borrowers ask for a clean slate if their school is guilty of misconduct. #2. …is accused by the federal government of falsifying its job placement rates, [and] misleading students… That’s right… misconduct is lying about job placement rates, I can literally hear the countdown clock until law schools start being sued for loan forgiveness.
06/02/2015 – Why the “cool factor” won’t lure college grads to your city – OSU
05/19/2015 – The Economy Is Still Terrible for Young People – The Atlantic
04/26/2015 – Burdened With Debt, Law School Graduates Struggle in Job Market – New York Times
03/30/2015 – A revolt is growing as more people refuse to pay back student loans – Washington Post
03/19/2015 – Study of Class of 2010 Raises ‘Troubling Questions’ About Legal Profession – WSJ (SSRN paper)
03/09/2015 – Law schools are in a death spiral. Maybe now they’ll finally change – Washington Post
02/20/2015 – Law school costs no longer worth it for most students – Pipedeam – Article is good, but conclusion is insane. The reading law / apprenticeship (sans law school) model exists in a few Western states (California as the main example) and it is a horribly failed concept for a myriad of reasons.
02/19/2015 – Americans are having more trouble paying off their student debt than their houses – Washington Post
02/11/2015 – Why Following Generic Job Search Advice Is Not Enough – ATL (I try not to post too much from them, but this is on point)
02/10/2015 – Unemployment ‘a cause of 45,000 suicides each year’ – The Lancet Psychiatry
01/12/2015 – Obama: Ban selling student data, targeted advertising in school – Fast Company
01/02/2015 – Legal Consulting Firm Believes AI Could Replace Lawyers by 2030 – Hacked
12/17/2014 – A steep slide in law school enrollment accelerates – NYT
12/16/2014 – Unemployed? You shouldn’t take just any job – Washington Post
12/08/2014 – Payback’s a Bitch – The Chronicle of Higher Education
12/03/2014 – The Incredible Shrinking Incomes of Young Americans – Atlantic
12/03/2014 – Your Lawyer May Soon Be an Algorithm – Vice
12/01/2014 – A Mortgaged Career – California Lawyer
11/16/2014 – Projected Lawyer Surpluses Worsen: 3 New Lawyers for Every Law Job in 2022 – TaxProf Blog – (fuck… )
11/12/2014 – Inequality, student debt and millennials – The Hill
11/07/2014 – When Bar score plummet, Who will examine the examiners? ABL
08/19/2014 – Law School Begins: Here’s A Message to the New Crop of 1L’s – Forbes
07/30/2014 – TED Radio Hour: Charlie Hoehn – NPR
(I like the concept, but it is advice from a college grad, and it doesn’t translate well to professions with liability issues such as lawyers. But very worthwhile talk relating to the downturn.)
07/02/2014 – What Happens When You Lose The Law School Lottery – ABL
06/24/2014 – Why networking doesn’t work – MIT News || The Strength of the Strongest Ties in Collaborative Problem Solving – Nature
05/31/2014 – Shrinking applicant pool has law schools competing to cut costs – Houston Chronicle
05/23/2014 – Scalia’s Remarks on Law School Renew Legal Education Debate – National Law Journal
05/19/2014 – What’s Your Major? 4 Decades Of College Degrees, In 1 Graph – NPR
05/16/2014 – Scalia: Law Schools Are Charging Students and Paying Professors Too Much – WSJ
05/14/2014 – “You Can Do Anything With a Law Degree” That’s what everyone says. Turns out everyone’s wrong. – Slate
05/09/2014 – Bail out law schools – but with strings attached – Boston Globe (note the end of the article saying students in law school are still fucked… but here’s how we can make law school academically better? Focus on jobs you twat, that will make more people show up.)
04/16/2014 – Joblessness not due to skills gap, experts say – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
03/08/2014 – College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated – Bloomberg
01/??/2014 – Under Contract – temporary attorneys encounter no-frills assignments, workspaces – Washington Lawyer
01/03/2014 – Here’s Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free – The Atlantic
12/27/2013 – I Didn’t Really Know How Screwed I Was Until I Was Almost Done With Law School – Business Insider
12/18/2013 – Law Schools See Drop In First-Year Students – NPR (they act like this is surprising news… I love the ABA’s retarded response)
12/14/2013 – I Consider Law School A Waste Of My Life And An Extraordinary Waste Of Money – Business Insider (amen)
11/24/2013 – The real reason law schools are raking in cash – Salon
11/14/2013 – ABL – Income Inequality of Law Grads – ’nuff said
11/03/2013 – Surviving the post-employment economy – Al Jazeera
10/30/2013 – As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry – NYT
09/20/2013 – Law school grad learns how to pay off a heavy debt – LA Times
09/03/2013 – Universities should educate – employers should train – The Globe and Mail (reddit post related to article)
08/27/2013 – Obama thinks law school should be two years. The British think it should be one – Washington Post Blog
08/26/2013 – 2 Years for Law School? – Inside Higher Ed
08/15/2013 – Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal – Rolling Stone
08/15/2013 – Legal Job Market Is So Bad, It’s Good, Says New Paper – SSRN – WSJ Law Blog
07/21/2013 – The Last Days of Big Law: You can’t imagine the terror when the money dries up – New Republic
05/17/2013 – Obama Student Loan Policy Under Scrutiny As Congress Tackles Student Borrowing Costs – Huffington Post (Department of Education to make $51 billion profit off student loan interest this year; more than Exxon Mobil… nice)
05/17/2013 – Dear Class of ’13: You’ve been scammed – Marketwatch
04/09/2013 – The Jobs Crisis at Our Best Law Schools Is Much, Much Worse Than You Think – The Atlantic
04/04/2013 – More than 50% of Graduates Aren’t Making a Living – WSJ
04/02/2013 – The Real Problem With Law Schools – They train too many lawyers – Slate (probably the best article explaining the problem so far)
03/27/2013 – Why a BA is Now a Ticket to A Job in a Coffee Shop – The Daily Beast
03/11/2013 Just How Bad Off Are Law School Graduates? – Time
03/08/2013 – The Economics of Legal Education: A concern of Colleagues – Open Letter to the ABA
03/07/2013 – To Place Graduates, Law Schools Are Opening Firms – NYT
03/01/2013 – Price and Perils of JD: Is Law School Worth It? – The DC Bar Association (spoiler.. it’s not)
02/19/2013 – Restore Bankruptcy Protection to Student Loans – The Irascible Professor (blog)
02/12/2013 – National Jurist in Competition to Displace Thomas Cooley Rankings as Biggest Joke in Legal Academia – Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports (blog)
02/04/2013 – Student loans: The next housing bubble – Slate
02/04/2013 – Law School Appliactions Crater 38% since ’10 – NYP
02/03/2013 – What Caused the Law School Bubble – Business Insider
01/31/2013 – Crop of New Law Schools Opens amid a Lawyer Glut – WSJ
01/30/2013 – Law Schools’ Applications Fall as Costs Rise and Jobs Are Cut – NYT
01/24/2013 – Going to Law School was the Biggest Mistake of My life – Business Insider
01/15/2013 – If you can’t get into a top-five MBA program, don’t even bother – Quartz
01/06/2013 – For Newly Minted MBAs, a smaller paycheck awaits – WSJ
01/02/2013 – A Message to Aspiring Lawyers: Caveat Emptor – WSJ
12/18/2012 – Does Law School Have a Future? – CNN Money
11/25/2012 – The Fake Skills Shortage – NY Times
11/21/2012 – A judge searches for free labor – Salon.com
11/20/2012 – Skills don’t pay the bills – NY Times
11/11/2012 – Three Million Open Jobs in the US, But Who’s Qualified? – CBS / 60 Minutes
10/31/2012 – Will Law Students Have Jobs After They Graduate – Washington Post
10/24/2012 – Law School Falsified Jobs Data – WSJ
09/24/2012 – Economics of Law School – NY Times
09/24/2012 – The Perils of Law School – Daily Beast
09/18/2012 – Coming: 50,000 unemployed lawyers? – The Form Tool
07/14/2012 – An Existential Crisis for Law Schools – NY Times
06/25/2012 – Law Grads face Brutal job market – WSJ
06/14/2012 – Law Schools Cut Class Sizes after Applicants Wise Up – FindLaw
06/06/2012 – 10 Things Law Schools Won’t Tell You: why the Juris Doctor isn’t what it used to be – SmartMoney
04/26/2012 – Law Grads: Lots of Debt, Few jobs – Columbus Dispatch
01/01/2012 – The Law School Bubble: How Long Will It Last if Law Grads Can’t Pay Bills? – ABA Journal
09/30/2011 – In tough job market, Law grads use JDs for Nonlegal Work – US News
05/10/2011 – Survey: 85% of New College Grads Move Back in with Mom and Dad – Time
04/25/2011 – Served : how law schools completely misrepresent their job numbers – The New Republic
Senate report on For-Profit (online) ‘universities’... maybe we should have one of these for Law Schools?
09/21/2009 – The Real Problem With The Economy Is That It Doesn’t Need You Anymore Read more – Business Insider – I recently found this… and it struck a chord. From before I ever started this blog, but seems fitting here.