Brooklyn Law School Dean advises ABA on finances of legal education
At the annual American Bar Association (ABA) meeting, Brooklyn Law School’s (BLS) Dean Nick Allard advised the Task Force on Financing Legal Education on varying and innovative ways to assist students worried about the mounting cost of law school debt.
“As you may recall, BLS has received sustained national attention for your leadership in overhauling the broken business model of law schools including reducing its tuition fifteen percent, providing low cost housing to students, increasing need based aid while relying less on merit scholarships and expanding post graduate loan repayment programs supporting continuation of successful federal loan programs for graduates who work in low pay jobs serving the unmet legal needs of the poor,” Allard told the institution’s trustees.
Allard presented the BLS model to the ABA in Boston at its meeting Sunday morning.
The Task Force on Financing Legal Education was established in March with the purpose of looking at the current cost of law school education, how students finance that education and the ramifications of student loans on the interest in and attainability of a legal education.