The New York Times reports that first-year law student enrollment has fallen to 37,924 full- and part-time students in 2014, a 30 percent lower number than four years ago and the lowest level since 1973. The Law School Admission Council also reports declining admissions test rates. As students compare law school costs to the jobs they can realistically reach, University of Colorado professor Paul F. Campos said that “People are coming to terms with the fact that this decline is the product of long-term structural changes that are just not going away.” The article notes that less than two thirds of 2013’s graduated lawyers found began work requiring having passed the bar exam, partly a product of increasing automation and legal programs for consumers.
From the news release of the American Association for Justice.
