Total law school enrollment rose 2% to 132,684 in 2019, but the percentage of minority students getting a legal education didn’t grow with the industry under pressure to boost diversity, American Bar Association figures showed.
“The aggregate first-year enrollment in ABA-approved law schools remains basically level with last year and close to the enrollment that we have seen for the past few years,” Barry Currier, managing director for ABA Accreditation and Legal Education, said in an email.
Currier said that the job market for law school graduates has stabilized, and improved in some areas.
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