摘要：Aprotracted “crisis in legal education”currently buffets law schools acrossthe country, as the schools face asteadily decreasing number of applicants yearafter year. The downward trend began in2010 and has only picked up steam since.While many anxious watchers of the trendhoped that a corner may have been turnedearly last year, the hope proved false as thenumber of LSAT takers nationwide declinedin June and again in October. The Octoberdecline in particular elicited many headlinesand declarations of doom, such as the titleof Paul Caron’s TaxProf Blog post on thematter, “Law School Carnage Enters Its FifthYear.”
