Why some grads are worse off, while others doing great
Are law grads really better off than 10 years ago? It depends on the law grad.
We just published a story that shows that, on average, recent law graduates have a better standard of living than they did in 1998 — by 74 percent for those who enter private practice and by 45 percent for those who enter public service.
But while the average has improved, one has to take a close look at the data to understand what really happened to the legal profession over the past ten years.





By Chad Flanders: When I was deciding where to go to college, my Dad — a dean at my high school — told me that every college was good for somebody otherwise it wouldn’t be there. I wasn’t sure, and I’m still not sure, that this advice was universally true.