My prior two installments in this series predicted that in 2015, many deans and law professors would declare the crisis in legal education over. In particular, two changes that have nothing to do with the actual demand for lawyers—one from the ABA and one from the Bureau of Labor Statistics—could fuel false optimism about the job environment for new law graduates.
Realistic projections about the future should start with a clear-eyed vision of the present. To assist in that endeavor, the Georgetown Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession and Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor recently released their always useful annual “Report on the State of the Legal Market.”
