{"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":"

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Matt Leichter <\/em><\/strong>(matt [dot] leichter [at] gmail [dot] com) (Saitama-ken 2003-05)<\/strong> is a renegade attorney who plays by his own rules.\u00a0 He operates a think tank of one, <\/em>The Law School Tuition Bubble<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, where he archives, chronicles, and analyzes the rising cost and declining value of legal education in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n

On December 5, the American Lawyer<\/em> (aka the AmLaw Daily<\/em>) published Leichter\u2019s most recent article, \u201cLaw School Debt Bubble, Part II: Data Show Feds Will Lend $54.3 Billion to U.S. Law Schools by 2020<\/a>,” 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":"

***** 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 […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t