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With fewer federal dollars available, students without strong credit may face new barriers to advanced degrees.
Catherine Fink of Colorado said this was the year she felt “most frazzled, just in terms of having to be basically at three full-time jobs.”
“The burnout factor is real,” Catherine Fink of Longmont, Colorado, says of teaching. She’s starting her first year of law school.
Some law schools are expanding entrance exam options as a way to try and encourage more diverse students to apply.
As enrollment declines and the job market for lawyers stagnates, some law schools are struggling to keep the lights on.
Non-J.D. enrollment at law schools is growing
Technology helps create a tight job market for young lawyers.
Law school applications are plummeting, so what are they worth?
The Wall Street Journal reports that newly minted lawyers have only about a 50 percent chance of being employed as lawyers nine months out from graduation.
With tech companies in expensive battles over patents and copyrights, intellectual property lawyers are in the money.
