Great post on The Atlantic Site about Law Schools

Here is the link:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-jobs-crisis-at-our-best-law-schools-is-much-much-worse-than-you-think/274795/

Here are more disturbing numbers.  The salaries of those who reported full time jobs are extremely bimodally distributed – with well over 60% making less than $65,000/yr and 14%making about $160,000/yr and not a lot in between.  (From the website of The Association of Legal Career Professionals.  See their Salary Distribution Curve at http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib?s=distribution.)
Who are getting the high paying jobs?  I only had time to look at the U. of Chicago and a few others.
Chicago graduated 203 students; 19 became Federal Law Clerks (low paying); 187 took full time jobs (181 requiring the bar.) ; and, over 75% received salaries of at least $160,000.
Saint Louis University graduated 272; 193 took full time jobs (144 requiring the bar); and none became federal clerks.  I couldn’t find salary data.
What do I conclude?  I have to guess that there is a dearth of well trained skilled law graduates and that many law schools are producing graduates with a lack of even sufficient skills.  The same thing occurs in engineering. Good engineers find high paying jobs since those engineers are so few. But most engineers with degrees are just that – people with degrees, not knowledge or skills.  And, by the way, from my experience dealing with deans of engineering schools who seem to just want to pass people, I don’t blame the students.  I blame the schools.