{"id":115,"date":"2012-10-17T06:42:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T06:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawschoollies.com\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2019-05-07T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T17:18:39","slug":"news-articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lawschoollies.com\/?page_id=115","title":{"rendered":"News Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

05\/07\/2019 – Program to Relieve Student Debt Proves Unforgiving<\/a> – Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

12\/14\/2018 – The 2018-19 Bottom 10 Law Schools<\/a> – The Faculty Lounge<\/p>\n

09\/01\/2018 –\u00a0The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America\u2019s Student Debt Machine<\/a> – Mother Jones<\/p>\n

05\/04\/2018 –\u00a0Public Servants Do Get Student Loan Forgiveness. Meet One of the First. <\/a>NYT<\/p>\n

07\/17\/2017 – As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away<\/a> – NYT<\/p>\n

07\/15\/2017 – The Lawyer, The Addict<\/a> – NYT<\/p>\n

06\/13\/2017 – The Law School Brain Drain Continues to Wreak Havoc<\/a> – ATL<\/p>\n

06\/12\/2017 –\u00a0Fewer Law School Applicants in Line for Upcoming School Year <\/a>– Law.com<\/p>\n

07\/11\/2016 –\u00a0‘I’m A Student-Debt Slave.’ How’d We Get Here?<\/a> – NPR<\/p>\n

06\/27\/2016 –\u00a0ABA May Be Stripped Of Power To Accredit New Law Schools<\/a> – ABL – Good… about time someone stopped the fools from continuing to blithely flush the industry down the toilet.<\/p>\n

04\/04\/2016 –\u00a0ITT Tech Sued for Deceiving Students About its Computer Network Systems Program and Success in Finding Jobs<\/a> – 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.<\/p>\n

01\/13\/2016 – I\u2019m a Lawyer. I Hate It. What Now?<\/a> – Slate<\/p>\n

01\/08\/2016 –\u00a0Study: Future Lawyers Are Hiding Depression and Drug and Alcohol Use<\/a> – Bloomberg Business<\/p>\n

01\/04\/2016 –\u00a0The End of Lawyers? Not So Fast.<\/a> – NYT<\/p>\n

12\/11\/2015 –\u00a0Who’s Profiting From $1.2 Trillion of Federal Student Loans?<\/a> – Bloomberg<\/p>\n

09\/13\/2015 – Gaps in Earnings Stand Out in Release of College Data <\/a>– NYT<\/p>\n

08\/25\/2015 –\u00a0How Are Lawyers Managing Their Law School Debt? Most Will Never Be Able To Pay It Off<\/a> – ABL<\/p>\n

08\/22\/2015 –\u00a07 Million People Haven’t Made A Single Student Loan Payment In At Least A Year<\/a> – Zerohedge (The blog is a bit on the fringe, but the numbers are enlightening if even partially true)<\/p>\n

08\/20\/2015 – Are Lawyers Getting Dumber?<\/a> – Bloomberg Business<\/p>\n

07\/07\/2015 –\u00a0Second Circuit Takes Firm Stance On Educational Value Of Being Poor<\/a> – ATL<\/p>\n

06\/08\/2015 –\u00a0Plan to forgive for-profit college loans could cost taxpayers billions<\/a> – Miami Herald -Notable for a few very interesting reasons… #1.\u00a0The 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… \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

06\/02\/2015 –\u00a0Why the \u201ccool factor\u201d won\u2019t lure college grads to your city<\/a> – OSU<\/p>\n

05\/19\/2015 –\u00a0The Economy Is Still Terrible for Young People<\/a> – The Atlantic<\/p>\n

04\/26\/2015 –\u00a0Burdened With Debt, Law School Graduates Struggle in Job Market <\/a>– New York Times<\/p>\n

03\/30\/2015 –\u00a0A revolt is growing as more people refuse to pay back student loan<\/a>s – Washington Post<\/p>\n

03\/19\/2015 –\u00a0Study of Class of 2010 Raises \u2018Troubling Questions\u2019 About Legal Profession<\/a> – WSJ \u00a0(SSRN paper<\/a>)<\/p>\n

03\/09\/2015 –\u00a0Law schools are in a death spiral. Maybe now they\u2019ll finally change<\/a> – Washington Post<\/p>\n

02\/20\/2015 –\u00a0Law school costs no longer worth it for most students<\/a> – 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.<\/p>\n

02\/19\/2015 –\u00a0Americans are having more trouble paying off their student debt than their houses<\/a> – Washington Post<\/p>\n

02\/11\/2015 –\u00a0Why Following Generic Job Search Advice Is Not Enough<\/a> – ATL (I try not to post too much from them, but this is on point)<\/p>\n

02\/10\/2015 – Unemployment ‘a cause of 45,000 suicides each year’<\/a> – The Lancet Psychiatry<\/p>\n

01\/12\/2015 – Obama: Ban selling student data, targeted advertising in school<\/a> – Fast Company<\/p>\n

01\/02\/2015 – Legal Consulting Firm Believes AI Could Replace Lawyers by 2030<\/a> – Hacked<\/p>\n

12\/17\/2014 – A steep slide in law school enrollment accelerates<\/a> – NYT<\/p>\n

12\/16\/2014 – Unemployed? You shouldn’t take just any job<\/a> – Washington Post<\/p>\n

12\/08\/2014 – Payback’s a Bitch<\/a> – The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/p>\n

12\/03\/2014 – The Incredible Shrinking Incomes of Young Americans <\/a>– Atlantic<\/p>\n

12\/03\/2014 –\u00a0Your Lawyer May Soon Be an Algorithm<\/a>\u00a0– Vice<\/p>\n

12\/01\/2014 –\u00a0A Mortgaged Career<\/a> – California Lawyer<\/p>\n

11\/16\/2014 –\u00a0Projected Lawyer Surpluses Worsen: 3 New Lawyers for Every Law Job in 2022<\/a> – TaxProf Blog – (fuck… )<\/p>\n

11\/12\/2014 –\u00a0Inequality, student debt and millennials<\/a> – The Hill<\/p>\n

11\/07\/2014 – When Bar score plummet,\u00a0Who will examine the examiners?<\/a> ABL<\/p>\n

08\/19\/2014 –\u00a0Law School Begins: Here’s A Message to the New Crop of 1L’s<\/a> – Forbes<\/p>\n

07\/30\/2014 – TED Radio Hour: Charlie Hoehn<\/a> – NPR<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/lawschoollies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ted_04.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

(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.)<\/p>\n

07\/02\/2014 –\u00a0What Happens When You Lose The Law School Lottery<\/a> – ABL<\/p>\n

06\/24\/2014 –\u00a0Why networking doesn’t work<\/a> – MIT News ||\u00a0The Strength of the Strongest Ties in Collaborative Problem Solving<\/a> – Nature<\/p>\n

05\/31\/2014 – Shrinking applicant pool has law schools competing to cut costs<\/a> – Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n

05\/23\/2014 – Scalia’s Remarks on Law School Renew Legal Education Debate<\/a>\u00a0 – National Law Journal<\/p>\n

05\/19\/2014 – What’s Your Major? 4 Decades Of College Degrees, In 1 Graph<\/a> – NPR<\/p>\n

05\/16\/2014 – Scalia: Law Schools Are Charging Students and Paying Professors Too Much<\/a> – WSJ<\/p>\n

05\/14\/2014 –\u00a0\u201cYou Can Do Anything With a Law Degree\u201d\u00a0That\u2019s what everyone says. Turns out everyone\u2019s wrong.<\/a>\u00a0– Slate<\/p>\n

05\/09\/2014 – Bail out law schools \u2013 but with strings attached<\/a> – 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.)<\/p>\n

04\/16\/2014 –\u00a0Joblessness not due to skills gap, experts say<\/a> –\u00a0Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/span><\/span>
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03\/08\/2014 – College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated<\/a> – Bloomberg
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01\/??\/2014 – Under Contract – temporary attorneys encounter no-frills assignments, workspaces<\/a> – Washington Lawyer<\/p>\n

01\/03\/2014 – Here’s Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free<\/a> – The Atlantic<\/p>\n

12\/27\/2013 – I Didn’t Really Know How Screwed I Was Until I Was Almost Done With Law School<\/a> – Business Insider<\/p>\n

12\/18\/2013 –\u00a0Law Schools See Drop In First-Year Students<\/a> – NPR (they act like this is surprising news… I love the ABA’s retarded response)<\/p>\n

12\/14\/2013 – I Consider Law School A Waste Of My Life And An Extraordinary Waste Of Money<\/a> – Business Insider\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (amen)<\/p>\n

11\/24\/2013 – The real reason law schools are raking in cash\u00a0 <\/a>– Salon<\/p>\n

11\/14\/2013 – ABL – Income Inequality of Law Grads<\/a> – ’nuff said<\/p>\n

11\/03\/2013 – Surviving the post-employment economy<\/a> – Al Jazeera<\/p>\n

10\/30\/2013 – As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry<\/a> – NYT<\/p>\n

09\/20\/2013 – Law school grad learns how to pay off a heavy debt<\/a> – LA Times<\/p>\n

09\/03\/2013 – Universities should educate \u2013 employers should train<\/a> – The Globe and Mail (reddit post related to article<\/a>)<\/p>\n

08\/27\/2013 – Obama thinks law school should be two years. The British think it should be one<\/a> – Washington Post Blog<\/p>\n

08\/26\/2013 – 2 Years for Law School?<\/a> – Inside Higher Ed<\/p>\n

08\/15\/2013 – Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal<\/a> – Rolling Stone<\/p>\n

08\/15\/2013 – Legal Job Market Is So Bad, It\u2019s Good, Says New Paper<\/a> – SSRN<\/a> – WSJ Law Blog<\/p>\n

07\/21\/2013 – The Last Days of Big Law: You can’t imagine the terror when the money dries up<\/a> – New Republic<\/p>\n

05\/17\/2013 – Obama Student Loan Policy Under Scrutiny As Congress Tackles Student Borrowing Costs<\/a> – Huffington Post\u00a0(Department of Education to make $51 billion profit off student loan interest this year; more than Exxon Mobil… nice)<\/p>\n

05\/17\/2013 – Dear Class of \u201913: You\u2019ve been scammed<\/a> – Marketwatch<\/p>\n

04\/09\/2013 – The Jobs Crisis at Our Best Law Schools Is Much, Much Worse Than You Think<\/a> – The Atlantic<\/p>\n

04\/04\/2013 – More than 50% of Graduates Aren\u2019t Making a Living<\/a> – WSJ<\/p>\n

04\/02\/2013 – The Real Problem With Law Schools – They train too many lawyers<\/a> <\/strong>– Slate (probably the best article explaining the problem so far)<\/p>\n

03\/27\/2013 – Why a BA is Now a Ticket to A Job in a Coffee Shop<\/a> – The Daily Beast<\/p>\n

03\/11\/2013 Just How Bad Off Are Law School Graduates?<\/a>\u00a0 – Time<\/p>\n

03\/08\/2013 – The Economics of Legal Education: A concern of Colleagues<\/a> – Open Letter to the ABA<\/p>\n

03\/07\/2013 – To Place Graduates, Law Schools Are Opening Firms<\/a> – NYT<\/p>\n

03\/01\/2013 – Price and Perils of JD: Is Law School Worth It?<\/a> – The DC Bar Association (spoiler.. it’s not)<\/p>\n

02\/19\/2013 – Restore Bankruptcy Protection to Student Loans<\/a> – The Irascible Professor (blog)<\/p>\n

02\/12\/2013 – National Jurist in Competition to Displace Thomas Cooley Rankings as Biggest Joke in Legal Academia<\/a> – Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports (blog)<\/p>\n

02\/04\/2013 – Student loans: The next housing bubble <\/a>– Slate<\/p>\n

02\/04\/2013 – Law School Appliactions Crater 38% since ’10<\/a> – NYP<\/p>\n

02\/03\/2013 – What Caused the Law School Bubble<\/a> – Business Insider<\/p>\n

01\/31\/2013 – Crop of New Law Schools Opens amid a Lawyer Glut<\/a> – WSJ<\/p>\n

01\/30\/2013 – Law Schools\u2019 Applications Fall as Costs Rise and Jobs Are Cut<\/a> – NYT<\/p>\n

01\/24\/2013 – Going to Law School was the Biggest Mistake of My life<\/a> – Business Insider<\/p>\n

01\/15\/2013 – If you can\u2019t get into a top-five MBA program, don\u2019t even bother<\/a> – Quartz<\/p>\n

01\/06\/2013 – For Newly Minted MBAs, a smaller paycheck awaits<\/a> – WSJ<\/p>\n

01\/02\/2013 – A Message to Aspiring Lawyers: Caveat Emptor<\/a> – WSJ<\/p>\n

12\/18\/2012 – Does Law School Have a Future?<\/a> – CNN Money<\/p>\n

11\/25\/2012 – The Fake Skills Shortage<\/a> – NY Times<\/p>\n

11\/21\/2012 – A judge searches for free labor<\/a> – Salon.com<\/p>\n

11\/20\/2012 – Skills don’t pay the bills<\/a> – NY Times<\/p>\n

11\/11\/2012 – Three Million Open Jobs in the US, But Who’s Qualified?<\/a> – CBS \/ 60 Minutes<\/p>\n

10\/31\/2012 – Will Law Students Have Jobs After They Graduate<\/a> – Washington Post<\/p>\n

10\/24\/2012 – Law School Falsified Jobs Data<\/a> – WSJ<\/p>\n

09\/24\/2012 – Economics of Law School<\/a> – NY Times<\/p>\n

09\/24\/2012 – The Perils of Law School<\/a> – Daily Beast<\/p>\n

09\/18\/2012 – Coming: 50,000 unemployed lawyers?<\/a> – The Form Tool<\/p>\n

07\/14\/2012 – An Existential Crisis for Law Schools<\/a> – NY Times<\/p>\n

06\/25\/2012 – Law Grads face Brutal job market<\/a> – WSJ<\/p>\n

06\/14\/2012 – Law Schools Cut Class Sizes after Applicants Wise Up<\/a> – FindLaw<\/p>\n

06\/06\/2012 – 10 Things Law Schools Won’t Tell You: why the Juris Doctor isn’t what it used to be<\/a> – SmartMoney<\/p>\n

04\/26\/2012 – Law Grads: Lots of Debt, Few jobs<\/a> – Columbus Dispatch<\/p>\n

01\/01\/2012 – The Law School Bubble: How Long Will It Last if Law Grads Can\u2019t Pay Bills?<\/a> – ABA Journal<\/p>\n

09\/30\/2011 – In tough job market, Law grads use JDs for Nonlegal Work<\/a> – US News<\/p>\n

05\/10\/2011 – Survey: 85% of New College Grads Move Back in with Mom and Dad<\/a>\u00a0 – Time<\/p>\n

04\/25\/2011 – Served : how law schools completely misrepresent their job numbers <\/a>– The New Republic<\/p>\n

Senate report on For-Profit (online) ‘universities’.<\/a>.. maybe we should have one of these for Law Schools?<\/p>\n

09\/21\/2009 – The Real Problem With The Economy Is That It Doesn’t Need You Anymore Read more<\/a> – Business Insider\u00a0– I recently found this… and it struck a chord. From before I ever started this blog, but seems fitting here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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