Over the last few years, traditional U.S. law schools have faced dramatically declining enrollments. They also are the target of increasing criticism about curricula that hasn’t changed in decades and offers little, if any, training in the actual practice of law or the use of legal technology. Current students find it challenging to land legal jobs—of 2013 graduates, 25 percent were unemployed or underemployed, and since 2011 only 55 percent hold a full-time, long-term job that requires a law degree, said Rocket Lawyer CEO Charley Moore in Law Technology News’ October print cover story addressing lawyer marketing.
But some law schools are beginning to see—and react to— the handwriting on the wall, including Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School and Michigan State University College of Law. Add another institution to the list: the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, in New York City.
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