Matt Leichter

December 06, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Law School Debt Bubble, Part II: Data Show Feds Will Lend $54.3 Billion to U.S. Law Schools by 2020

By Matt Leichter

8 minute read

January 05, 2012 | The American Lawyer

New BEA Data Showing Legal Sector Grew 2.3 Percent in 2010 No Reason to Celebrate

By Matt Leichter

7 minute read

October 11, 2012 | Law.com

Income-Based Repayment: Lifeline for Law Graduates, Certain Loser for Government

Recent modifications to the Higher Education Act were probably not intended to result in large losses on legal education debt for the government, but they will. Restoring standard consumer bankruptcy protections to student loans would make more sense.

By Matt Leichter

9 minute read

March 05, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

A Rational Explanation for Why Law School Tuition Keeps Rising

Matt Leichter, who runs The Law School Tuition Bubble website, posits a rational, numbers-driven explanation for the continually rising price of law school tuition.

By Matt Leichter

8 minute read

October 25, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Who Knew Law Students Were Scamming the Government All Along?

A new report from the New America Foundation criticizes upcoming modifications to the Department of Education's Income-Based Repayment program, but its recommendations for preventing high-income debtors from gaining windfalls ignore the costs to underemployed debtors.

By Matt Leichter

10 minute read

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