Man paid $867,000 per year to run fourth-tier law school says law school is a good investment
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But others view [Brian Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools] as just the latest overly dire prediction about the fate of law graduates and misplaced finger-pointing over tuition costs.
“Most people in the profession were already concerned about what it costs to get a law degree,” said John O’Brien, dean of the New England School of Law and chairman of the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. “Nobody feels good that tuitions have gone up. But the claim that a law degree is a bad investment doesn’t hold water.”
O’Brien currently heads the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education, whose regulatory mission is to decide whether it’s a good idea for John O’Brien to get paid nearly $800,000 $867,000 per year to run a law school where 70% of 2011 graduates didn’t get a full-time job requiring a law degree, and approximately four out of 308 graduates obtained a job that justified the cost of attendance. (Update: Just found IRS Form 990 for 2011. I apologize to Dean O’Brien for seriously understating the compensation he received for his charitable endeavors in 2011).