Today, with higher law-school tuition rates and lower expectations of benefits for graduates, financial-aid policies that foist the highest costs on the poorest students are untenable — and unethical. Opportunity devoid of equity is little more than exploitation. Legal education must do better, and soon.
— Professor Aaron Taylor of St. Louis University School of Law, commenting on the results of the latest Law School Survey of Student Engagement with regard to black and Latino law students. Last year, the percentage of black and Latino students entering law school rose to 21 percent, its highest point ever, and statistics gleaned from the Survey suggested that those students would shoulder the highest costs when it came law school tuition. It’s worth noting that 60 percent of black and Latino students said they’d graduate from law school with more than $100,000 in debt, compared to just 40 percent of white and Asian students.