The Case Against Law School

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LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: New York Magazine: The Case Against Law School.
“The hardest part about becoming a lawyer in a city like New York, if your path runs through a top-tier school such as Columbia or NYU, might be getting your application accepted.
After that, it’s mostly a matter of keeping your grades up and waiting for the jobs to come to you:
On-campus recruiting interviews lead to summer associateships, which often lead to jobs at the same firm after graduation.
Attending a less prestigious law school, though, has always been something of a gamble, and as the recession has squeezed the profession, the math has become ­dicey indeed.

Nationwide, there are two aspiring lawyers with passing bar-exam scores for every one open job; in New York State, the ratio is even more lopsided, with 9,787 passing the bar in 2009, then competing for roughly 2,100 new positions.”