Abstract
It is no secret that the legal profession has mushroomed. In fact, law is the fastest-growing profession in the nation. It is estimated that today's 385,000 lawyers will almost double by 1985. Students taking the Law School Admission Tests have increased by nearly 300 percent from 68,100 for the two year period 1963-1964 to 257,700 students in 1973-74. During the same comparison period, the total enrollment in Law schools doubled. More than 116,500 persons are currently studying law -- the largest single group in postgraduate professional education. In the 1974-75 academic year, for the second consecutive year, not a single unfilled seat exists in the country's 158 ABA approved law schools. The admissions to law schools are at an all-time high -- estimated at approximately 85,000 competing for only 37,700 openings.
Journal Title
Iowa Communication Journal
Volume
8
Issue
1
First Page
8
Last Page
21
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Forston, Robert F.
(1976)
"The Becoming of Age: The Pre-Law Communication Major,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 8:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol8/iss1/4
Copyright
©1976 Iowa Communication Association
