The law professor at Western New England, writing in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, says that the actual facts have been mis-stated and that a rosy future looks likely instead. He wrote: ‘Recent law school graduates and current and future law students are standing at the threshold of the most robust legal market that ever existed in this country—a legal market which will grow, exist for, and coincide with, their entire professional career. Over the next two decades, the legal profession market is moving statistically into the direction of almost guaranteed legal employment for all law school graduates.’ 

Growing complexity

Numerous factors make him take an optimistic stance - including his belief that the numbers of retiring lawyers have been left out of the equation, the later age at which people are tending to qualify, population growth and the growing complexity of the law. Source: ABA