{"id":987618,"date":"2026-01-26T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987618"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:31:57","slug":"interest-in-us-law-schools-is-surging-as-ai-makes-payoff-less-certain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/interest-in-us-law-schools-is-surging-as-ai-makes-payoff-less-certain\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest in US law schools is surging as AI makes payoff less certain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the American law school has served as a popular hedge against a cooling economy. When the &#8220;Help Wanted&#8221; signs disappear, the &#8220;JD&#8221; applications surge. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what is happening now. The number of U.S. law school applicants for the 2026 cycle is up an estimated 17% from last year, according to data from the American Bar Association compiled by the Law School Admission Council. That figure is a staggering 44% increase from just two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the American law school has served as a popular hedge against a cooling economy. When the &#8220;Help Wanted&#8221; signs disappear, the &#8220;JD&#8221; applications surge. That&#8217;s what is happening now. The number of U.S. law school applicants for the 2026 cycle is up an estimated 17% from last year, according to data from the American Bar Association compiled by the Law School Admission Council. That figure is a staggering 44% increase from just two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}