A Reading List for the “Conversation about Employment in the Law and Legal Occupations”

Expressing relief at not being named in Cooley’s lawsuit against four John Doe bloggers, BIDER’s Angel includes the e-mail by Cooley’s president, Don LeDuc, to his students assuaging their possible concerns that their law degrees may not be very marketable. He writes: The entire conversation about employment in the law and legal occupations is almost [...]

The Law School Tuition Bubble: Tuition Increases Law School-by-Law School from 2005 to 2011, Part 1

As a member of a learned profession, a lawyer should cultivate knowledge of the law beyond its use for clients, employ that knowledge in reform of the law and work to strengthen legal education. – Wisconsin Rules of Professional Conduct “Preamble: A Lawyer’s Responsibilities,” ¶6, (WI SCR Chapter 20) Introduction Last May, I started the [...]

Bottleneck Attack!

I dove right in to drawing the connection b’ween the number of law schools and the tuition bubble.  Then I realized that I really hadn’t sufficiently distinguished bubbles from bottlenecks and got bogged down.  I apologize for delaying your numbers-crunched, but fumbling through this post helped me crystallize my opinions on this project. Bottleneck and [...]

Bottleneck or Bubble?

Here’s your summer reading list on the increasing cost of legal education.  I arranged it in chronological order beginning in late 2009.  Indented pieces are responses to the original. Herwig Schlunk, “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Lawyers” Catherine Rampell, “Law School as an Investment” Sam Glover, “The Law School Bubble Is [...]