In the Washington Post, Annie Lowrey takes a look at the law school scandal.
[L]aw schools … keep growing. Law schools awarded 43,588 J.D.s last year, up 11.5 percent since 2000. And the American Bar Association’s list of approved law schools now numbers 200, an increase of 9 percent in the past decade. Those newer law schools have a much shakier track record of helping new lawyers get work, but they don’t necessarily cost less than their older, more established counterparts.
… The marquee law schools will be fine. But some of the newer, lower-ranked law schools will shut down.
UD ain’t sure where Lowrey gets her confidence that bad schools will shut down. A law school shut down? UD doesn’t think so. Starting new law schools, as Lowrey points out, is a growth industry.