{"id":22812,"date":"2011-12-05T23:47:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=22812"},"modified":"2011-12-05T23:47:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:47:55","slug":"jet-alum-projects-54-3-billion-in-new-law-school-debt-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/05\/jet-alum-projects-54-3-billion-in-new-law-school-debt-by-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Alum Projects $54.3 Billion in New Law School Debt by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Matt Leichter <\/em><\/strong><em>(matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) <strong>(Saitama-ken 2003-05)<\/strong> is a renegade attorney who plays by his own rules.\u00a0 He operates a think tank of one, <\/em><a href=\"..\/2011\/11\/Old%20Desktop%20and%20Documents\/All%20DOCS\/2009%20Post-Grad%20School%20Era\/2009-06%20Professional%20Docs\/BLT\/lawschooltuitionbubble.wordpress.com\"><strong><em>The Law School Tuition Bubble<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>, where he archives, chronicles, and analyzes the rising cost and declining value of legal education in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On December 5, the <em>American Lawyer<\/em> (aka the <em>AmLaw Daily<\/em>) published Leichter\u2019s most recent article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/amlawdaily.typepad.com\/amlawdaily\/2011\/12\/law-school-debt-bubble-part-ii-education-department-to-lend-543-billion-to-americas-law-schools-by-2.html\">Law School Debt Bubble, Part II: Data Show Feds Will Lend $54.3 Billion to U.S. Law Schools by 2020<\/a>,&#8221; in which he uses American Bar Association data to project the exponential growth of law school debt in contrast to the small number of new lawyer jobs in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***** Matt Leichter (matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) (Saitama-ken 2003-05) is a renegade attorney who plays by his own rules.\u00a0 He operates a think tank of one, The Law School Tuition Bubble, where he archives, chronicles, and analyzes the rising cost and declining value of legal education in the United States. On December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,73,7,10,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-advice","category-blogs","category-career","category-graduate-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5VW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22813,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions\/22813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}