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1 Draft Report and Recommendations: American Bar Association Task Force on the Future of Legal Education, September 20, 2013 1 (2013)

handle is hein.lbr/drptrectf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DRAFT REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION September 20, 2013 NOTICE This is one of a series of working documents created in the course of the Task Force's deliberations. It is neither the final report of the Task Force Report nor a document that reflects the policy of the American Bar Association. OVERVIEW The American legal profession, the nation's law schools, the American Bar Association, the states' Supreme Courts, and others have collaborated over several generations to create a system of legal education widely admired around the world. The system is decentralized, involves both private and public actors, and is grounded in the J.D. programs of ABA-approved law schools. At present, the system faces considerable pressure because of the price many students pay, the large amounts of student debt, consecutive years of sharply falling applications, and dramatic changes, possibly structural, in the jobs available to law graduates. These have resulted in real economic stresses on law schools, damage to career and economic prospects of many recent graduates, and diminished public confidence in the system of legal education. The predicament of so many students and recent graduates who may never procure the sort of employment they anticipated when they enrolled in their law schools has been particularly compelling. The Task Force on the Future of Legal Education has been charged to examine current problems and conditions in American legal education and present recommendations that are workable and have a reasonable chance of broad acceptance. This draft Report and Recommendations constitutes the conclusions of the Task Force about the problems and their potential solutions. A. Key Conclusions Some highlights of the conclusions reached in this Report and Recommendations are the following: Pricing and Funding of Legal Education: Law schools are funded through a complex system of tuition revenue and non-tuition sources such as endowment income and state subsidies. Law school pricing practices are also complex, and involve extensive discounting and reliance on loans. A currently widespread practice is for a school to announce nominal

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