Lawyers Struggle To Live 'Mortgaged' Lives Under The Crushing Weight Of Student Loans

Will the government be forced to grant loan forgiveness to all lawyers with unbearable debt burdens?

If we were entirely comfortable with the fact that only the rich could go to law school, then we wouldn’t have a debt issue.

Jordan Furlong, a consultant who studies trends in the legal sector, commenting to California Lawyer magazine on the disconnect between the cost of a legal education and the salaries that recent law school graduates are bringing home. He believes that would-be law students are being “price[d] out” of the equation, and that the government will eventually be forced to grant loan forgiveness to thousands upon thousands of debt-saddled lawyers.

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