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Law apps not down as much as feared; law grad gets debt forgiven by bankruptcy court

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Better than  terrible news for law schools, after LSAC data showed that law school applicants are down 13.4 percent from last year. This is good news because applications had been off pace by 22.1 percent in January. That means that a number of students decided to apply in the spring semester, likely due to the significant press coverage on the dearth of applications and how it will be an easier year to get into law school. At the current pace, the LSAC projects 58,700 applicants, down from 68,000 a year ago, but far above the 52,000 that had been feared in January. Paul Campos estimates the incoming class will have 38,000 students, down from 52,500 in 2010.

Getting out from under debt, after Mike Hedlund, a 1997 law graduate of Willamette University, in Salem, Ore., won a 10-year battle to discharge $53,000 in federal student loans. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a bankruptcy judges earlier holding that Hedlund proved three factors necessary to have his debt forgiven — he made a good faith effort to repay the money; he can’t earn enough to repay the money and maintain a basic standard of living; and his inability to earn substantially more is likely to persist. Hedlund failed the bar exam twice and works as a juvenile probation officer.

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