State Bar & Bar Associations
May 12, 2017
Whittier could have weathered the storm
California, a national leader in the attempt to create a gateway for minorities into the legal profession, can ill afford to lose a law school like Whittier.
The recent announcement by Whittier College that it was shuttering its half century old law school came as a shock but not a surprise. Demand for legal education has declined significantly over the past several years despite expanding employment opportunities and incomes for lawyers.
But the school could have weathered this storm. Whittier's trustees rejected its own faculty's conclusion that keeping the school could "strengthen" the college and make it "more distinctive." Perhaps m...
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