[Milton Miteybad]

Where was the relative’s graduate-level costs of education stated — a vital factor to your complaint?

I don't recall that it was, not that it makes any difference. A year at even the most mediocre law school is going for $40-$60K, including the cost of living. If "the relative" received a full free ride through law school, then perhaps he/she may eventually achieve a benefit-to-cost ratio above 1.0000. Most law graduates these days aren't so fortunate.

I gather you’re not familiar with the value of business professionals educated in law, especially in the areas of contract, health, and patent law.

To the contrary, with 34 eminently successful years in business selling similar services, I would say I have a better-than-average idea of the value of such personnel. I also know that those skills don't necessarily have to come in a package wrapped in a J.D. degree.

[Gene Eric]

Your point concerns the cost of the degree, not the opportunity provided by it.