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.