Steven J. Harper, has written a column in The American Lawyer challenging Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon's piece in the New York Times in which Solomon argued that the current state of the legal profession is improving. Point by point, Harper says there is not support for Solomon's argument that new law graduates are entering an improved job market. Overall, employment in the legal market "is still tens of thousands of jobs below its 2007 high," Harper notes. He notes that 24 percent of graduates still responding to a job survey were no longer practicing law. He also notes that dysfunctional market keeps law schools alive because they can admit students who can obtain "unlimited federal student loans for which law schools have no accountability with respect to their student employment outcomes."
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