Introduction When kids are in high school and are thinking about becoming a lawyer, they almost always automatically envision a nice office, a great salary, and an overall good lifestyle. But like any other career choice, it’s good to do the research before jumping headfirst into a profession that is so easy to be seen initially as a big money maker. An article by Sam Favate in The Wall Street Journal entitled “Number of Law School Applicants Continues to Slide” reads: “…We see that applicants for law school are down 15.6% and applications submitted are down 13.6%, according to the Law School Admission Council. That translates to about 66,696 applicants and about 484,576 applications, LSAT Blog estimates.” The Drop in Applicants When future law students look around and see how many …show more content…
Thanks to Anna Alaburda, we can now say things like, “Thomas Jefferson School of Law, inflating employment statistics by more than 20% with non-legal jobs for six years!” The American Bar Association committee proposed to make law schools be more transparent when describing their graduate’s exact jobs that they are working after graduation, along with their specific salaries. The Cost of Law School A website called The Richest People has an article entitled “Best Law Schools for Getting Rich”. In it, they list almost 100 institutions with text written under each school about how much money some of their graduates have made midways through their careers. For example, Stanford Law School has had graduates who have made around $236,000 over time. At first read of this particular list, a future law student can easily be pulled in by this attractive figure and look over CRISIS/5 the fact that the tuition to attend Stanford is over $42,000 a year. This isn’t even including the high cost of living in the Bay Area. When they add that in, they’ll calculate their total college costs to be almost $70,000