Stop feeling sorry for law students. For the last few years, we’ve viewed them as innocent lambs—poor babes who’ve been snookered into taking on hundreds thousand of dollars of law school debt for a degree of dubious worth.

Well, it turns out that they’re a lot savvier than we thought. Rather than lambs, some have morphed into wolves. And who can blame them? They are simply taking advantage of market forces in the legal education marketplace.