Exile on Link Street—ABA Pres. Responds to Sen. Boxer, Lenders Protected from Student Debt Default, & Much More

Six links! Much happened in the world of legal education and student debt (1) Debra Cassens Weiss, “BigLaw Lost Nearly 10K Lawyers in the Last Three Years,” in The ABA Journal I can’t speak for 2010, but between 2006 and 2009 the legal sector (which employs most lawyers) lost 67,000 “persons engaged in industry,” according [...]

But I Deflated the Economy Right!

Enter the BIDER Via Nicole Battles in JDs Rising, we have Andrea Hable’s, “Law School Debt Survey Results,” in the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Practice Blawg. Ms. Hable conducted an unofficial and admittedly unrepresentative sample of Minnesota lawyers’ debt situations. Minnesota (my home state) as I frequently point out, is one of the most attorney [...]

Dear ABA Committee Chair, No, It’s Not That Complicated. Signed, The Legal Profession

Heather Diersen follows up her JDs Rising piece, “Dear Law School, It’s All Your Fault.  Signed, Recent Grad,” with, “Dear Recent Grads, It’s More Complicated Than That.  Signed, The ABA,” in which she parses an interview she conducted with ABA Accreditation Committee chair, Jay Conison, also dean of Valparaiso University School of Law.  Dean Conison [...]

Department of Education to the Rescue? Proposed CFR Changes to account for “Program Integrity” and “Gainful Employment”

    Jerry Kowalski alerted me to a proposed change to the Code of Federal Regulations, (34 CFR Part 668) that just might kill the law school tuition bubble if adopted.  I’d read about the rule change elsewhere, and thought it applied exclusively to for-profit higher education institutions, including a handful of law schools that [...]

Links Dances—JDs Rising Gets the Tuition Bubble

Just so you know, I’ve never heard the Who’s Face Dances–a mystery I’m happy to leave unsolved. Kelly Francis, “Law School Debt and the Mortgage Meltdown,” in JDs Rising Mark Cohen, “Law School Debt: It’s Broke, Why Won’t Anyone Fix It?” in MinnLawyer Blog Comparing legal education to the subprime mortgage market, Francis writes a [...]

Reformers, Futile Gesturers, Blamers, and Loss-Cutters: Adventures in Anger, Personal Responsibility, and Positive Thinking

I open with sources; doodles to follow. Heather Diersen, “Dear Law School: It’s All Your Fault. Signed, Recent Grad,” in JDs Rising Mary Beth Marklein, “Grads Taking Law Schools to Task for Poor Job Market,” in USA Today Don Peck, “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America,” in The Atlantic Susan Carter Liebel, “Don’t [...]