September 5, 2003
Bar Assn. Says Low Pay Keeps Law Graduates Out of Public Service
Law students are abandoning plans for public-service careers because the meager salaries they would earn wouldn't allow them to repay student-loan debts that often exceed $80,000, according to a report released in August at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association.
The report, the culmination of two years of study by the ABA Commission on Loan Repayment and Forgiveness, warns that poor and disadvantaged people will lose access to legal services unless something is done to
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