there are more law school openings than there are first year students.
AND!
there are NEW LAW SCHOOLS OPENING!!!
none have closed.
Remember the Shakespeare play where the conspirators wanted to take over the country by eliminating lawyers? We have done that by collapsing the lawyer education system.
Too many law schools have crippled the profession.
Too many law schools essentially defrauding students and the federal taxpayer to milk the “free money” from the student loan program; sending out newly-minted lawyers who have so much debt on their banks that they cannot get rid of (not even in bankruptcy, generally speaking), that they have to charge outrageous fees and therefore cannot afford to be a “profession” any longer in the real sense of the word, and have become, instead, nothing more than a grotesquely bloated industry.