While many law students and recent grads have come to feel that legal education is an expensive waste of time now that the job market for lawyers has collapsed, some seasoned law practitioners have their own concerns about the worth of a legal education. Their concerns, however, relate to product quality rather than product marketability.…

More than 80 law schools are discussed by students attending them. Emphasis is on whether to attend, choice of institution, admissions chances, and financing a legal education. Chapter 1, "Is Law School for You?" discusses jobs, money, status, the service aspect of law, the content of a law degree, examining options other than law school, and…

This report summarizes results of a survey of students in the recently-initiated part-time evening program of Nova Southeastern University (Florida) law school. Respondents included all 54 evening program students enrolled in spring 1997. Results indicate that about half the students hold a job that is either highly or moderately related to their…