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The Law School Bubble has Burst

In 2010 nearly 50,000 students accepted admission to law schools.

From the same year, only 51% of graduates found employment in private practice.

And only 68% of grads found themselves in a position that requires a law degree at work.

And that’s BEFORE the peak of the bubble

Say what? 32% of law school grads, with an average school loan debt of $98,500, didn’t even get jobs in law.[3]

With 2011 admissions still astronomical, the law school bubble wont be over until 2014.

But matriculation rates, administered LSAT’s, and applications to schools have dropped to late 80’s levels.

So prepare to see a lot of law schools close.

In the last 40 years, 65 new law schools have opened.

ButÉApplications to schools are headed for a 30 year low.

And it’s about time, with large portions of the legal profession shuttered there are less jobs.

And more lawyers.

PLUS 75% of law salaries going to only 35 markets[5]

1.)San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara

2.)San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City

3.) New York-White Plains-Wayne, NJ

4.)Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA

5.)Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale

6.)Modesto CA

7.)Wilmington DE

8.)Washington D.C.

9.)Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA

10.) Chattanooga, TN

11.)Dallas-Plano-Irving TX

12.)Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta

13.)Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, CA

14.)Philadelphia, PA

15.)Chicago, Naperville, Joliet

16.)Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown

17.)San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos

18.)Reno-Sparks

19.)Greensboro-High Point NC

20.)Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington

21.) Newark-Union NJ/PA

22.)Baltimore-Towson

23.) Bethesda-Frederick-Gaithersburg

24.) El Paso, TX

25.)Birmingham-Hoover, AL

26.)Boston-Cambridge-Quincy

27.)Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord NC/SC

28.)Richmond VA

29.) Denver-Aurora CO

30.)W. Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach

31.) Pittsburch, PA

32.) Warren-Trow-Farmington Hills, MI

33.) Des Moines-West Des Moines

34.) Huntsville, AL

35.) Salt Lake city

As with any bubble, it was our choice to irrationally pursue a product. We’re finally curing the lawyer glut.

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