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Math for Lawyers: CLE Is Cheaper Than Law School

By Eric Lipman

Here at LBW, we've chronicled the many blogs dedicated to convincing potential law students to steer clear. One of those blogs, BL1Y, which is generally pretty damned funny, had a post yesterday -- the 44th in the series of posts expressly detailing reasons not to go to law school, though that theme runs through just about every post on the site -- letting the world know that law school is expensive. As Bitter Lawyer points out, "Wah!" But BL1Y's post raises an interesting idea. He breaks down the hourly cost of law school, and compares it to the hourly cost of certain CLE classes. Despite the expected economies of scale, it seems CLE classes are a relative bargain: CLEs, just like law school, require facilities (rented, instead of owned), websites, administrative staff, tech support, the whole works. But, if you know anything about how economics works, you know that as you provide a service to a larger group, it becomes cheaper. So, you would think law schools, which often times have well over 1000 JD students (and then more LLMs) would be able to offer legal education at a much cheaper rate. And, with CLEs you get a cheaper rate...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on May 04, 2010 (boomark / email).