The truth sank in during 2012. Law schools continued to suffer lower enrollment, graduates kept struggling to find jobs and educators began to accept that these changes might be permanentthat the old way of doing things had to change. If 2011 was the year the legal academy hit rock bottom, 2012 was the year it began to come to terms with its new reality.
“Absolutely, this year was a turning point,” said Washington University in St. Louis School of Law dean Kent Syverud, chair of the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. “A large faction of the legal education community is aware and accepting of the need for change.”
