The Daily Caller: The Top Five Law School Marketing Failures:
Lawyerin’ ain’t easy these days for a tremendous number of recent law school graduates.
New attorneys are graduating with staggering
debt. Last year, graduates of private law schools left school almost
$125,000 in debt. For public law school grads, the debt average was over
$75,700.Jobs are hard to find. In 2011, just over half of all newly-minted graduates had found permanent, full-time legal work up to nine months after getting their diplomas.
It’s not a good time to be a law school, either. The message that law
school is more likely to lead to massive debt and unemployment than a
prestigious six-figure income has not been lost on undergrads and people
looking for a career change.Significantly fewer
people have been taking the LSAT the last two years. In 2011, the
number of people who took the LSAT fell 16 percent, the largest drop in a
decade. Applications are down precipitously — about 16 percent as well.In recent years, law schools have resorted to some unconventional
methods to scare up and otherwise impress potential future law students.
Here are of the more interesting ones.
