Law schools today give the impression they are thriving. Many have magnificent facilities with state-of-the-art technology. Their resources are the envy of every department in the university. Law professors are among the best paid in the academy, with sparkling credentials, and are sought after not just as leading academic and legal figures but also as public intellectuals, as consultants, and for important state and federal government positions. The first decade of the twenty-first century has been a golden age of plenty for law schools. Yet law schools are failing abjectly in multiple ways. Annual tuition at over a half-dozen law schools topped $50,000 in 2011, with a dozen more poised to follow. After adding living expenses, the out-of-pocket cost of obtaining a law degree at these schools reaches $200,000. Nearly 90 percent of law students borrow to finance their legal education, with the average law school debt of graduates approaching $100,000. Many law graduates cannot find jobs as lawyers, enduring the worst market for legal employment in decades. Paying no heed to the adverse job market, law schools increased their enrollment in 2009 and 2010, which will send more graduates scrambling for scarce jobs three years hence.