ABA Journal Legal Rebels:  Only Law Schools That Tackle Costs, Graduate Client-Centered Lawyers Will Survive—A Dean’s View, by Jeremy Paul (Dean, Northeastern):

As calls for reform of legal education continue to suggest a variety of
directions, one thing is certain. Law schools will be expected to do
more with less. We often hear legal educators highlight tensions within
the loud criticisms aimed at today’s law schools. Critics tell us that
costs are too high compared to the expected earnings of many law school
graduates. They are. Critics also say that law schools are
insufficiently sensitive to the realities of contemporary law practice
in which lawyers must be fast as well as smart, client-centered as well
as thorough, and business-savvy as well as legally sophisticated. How,
our colleagues often wonder, are law schools supposed to provide
additional professional instruction while simultaneously slowing tuition
increases? We don’t pretend to have all the answers, but we are sure of
one thing. Only those law schools that tackle this challenge directly
are likely to thrive.