UC-Hastings law school will reduce enrollment by 240 students over the next three years — a 20 percent decrease. Administrators cast the move as an acknowledgement that legal academia has become bloated.

The move represents one of the most drastic attempts by any law school thus far to adjust to major shifts in the legal academia, including plummeting law school applications and reduced law firm hiring. Other law schools have reduced enrollment in recent years, but in smaller degrees.

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