Albany Law School is the latest to launch a two-year juris doctor program, and more than a dozen schools around the country now offer students the option to shave a year—and in some cases a year of tuition—off their legal educations.
Most of these accelerated programs were introduced in the six years since nationwide law school enrollment started its 29-percent slide following the recession, in a bid to appeal to a wider pool of potential lawyers. The programs tend to attract highly motivated students who want to jump-start their legal careers earlier, as well as foreign-trained attorneys, career changers, and those with families who want to re-enter the workforce as quickly as possible.
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