This year "The Apprentice", a television show in which contestants compete for the privilege of working for Donald Trump, features 16 who are down on their luck, having lost previous jobs or otherwise having to start anew. No fewer than five of them are lawyers. The legal-job market in America remains dire. But the numbers applying to law school are still soaring, and students are taking out ever bigger loans as tuition fees grow faster than lawyers' salaries. Increasingly, they are graduating into a world of overblown expectation and debt. Between 1996 and 2008 private law schools' median tuition fees almost doubled, to just under $34,000 a year.
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