"The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shake the legal world, now affecting the interest in legal education or more precisely, the lack of it.
According to the latest data from the Law School Admission Council, the law school applicant pool is most likely to shrink this year, with applicants to American Bar Association-accredited law schools being down 2.5% from this point in the cycle last year.
In 2019, schools had received 95% of all applications for the coming fall, by early June. If that timing holds true for this year, schools have little chance of making up that lost ground on applicants." …