Sentences with phrase «huge law school debt»

If it wasn't for their huge law school debt, we would have the most socially active group of lawyers; instead, this will mean a lot of lawyers will be unemployed or hired by big corporations.

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«If you're uninsured or underinsured, you can run up a huge debt in a short period of time,» says Lois Lupica, a bankruptcy expert and Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law.

Law schools are confronting an unholy Trinity of factors: (1) huge student debt (the national average — not including undergraduate obligations — is $ 120K); (2) abysmal post-graduation employment rates (nationally, almost half of law school products do not have jobs requiring legal licensure nine months after graduating); and (3) an absence of skills required for the legal marketplace (and this is coupled with the decline of mentorship / on - the - job traininLaw schools are confronting an unholy Trinity of factors: (1) huge student debt (the national average — not including undergraduate obligations — is $ 120K); (2) abysmal post-graduation employment rates (nationally, almost half of law school products do not have jobs requiring legal licensure nine months after graduating); and (3) an absence of skills required for the legal marketplace (and this is coupled with the decline of mentorship / on - the - job traininlaw school products do not have jobs requiring legal licensure nine months after graduating); and (3) an absence of skills required for the legal marketplace (and this is coupled with the decline of mentorship / on - the - job training).

US law school applications are down 20 % from their peak as students there begin to realize that running up a huge debt for an uncertain future may not be a good career move.