We are either a nation of great optimists or utter fools. And I’m not even commenting about new entrants in the political arena. I’m referring to the seemingly endless flood of people who still aspire to be lawyers, despite the shrinking legal job market. According to The National Law Journal:
Veritas, a law school admissions consulting firm, polled 112 prospective law school applicants in June and July, and 81 percent said they would still apply even if “a significant number of law school graduates were unable to find jobs in their desired fields.” Only 4 percent said they would not apply to law school under that circumstance.
For months now, groups like the Law School Transparency have been arguing that law schools should be required to provide employment data about their graduates. The idea is that people might make the wiser choice of not going to law school if they know about the dismal job picture.
