Law would pay off $60,000 in law school debt

What a surprise, attorneys passing legislation to get their loans paid off.

We also need to remember, if you are a teacher and you work in a low income school you can qualify to have part of your student loan debt paid. Most hospital and medical groups also will pay the student loans of doctors and nurses as part of their compensation package.

if we don't have a court system then we have Anarchy. we need lawyers to make the court system work. i, as a tax payer, want good lawyers in the court system not bad ones. you get what you pay for.

Interesting article but it, unfortunately, raises more questions than it answers.

How was the cited corollation between dedication and high qualification versus higher pay measured?

How much "first chair" court time has an attorney who has just passed the bar acquired anyway? By what manner was this three year employment selected? One year for every year of law school?

At the end of the program, what will be the primary yardstick for determing whether or not the program met its objectives?

Why not a percentage per year worked paid off, with complete payoff in five years?

Some of you have a very stereotypical view of attorneys. I know an attorney who has worked in both private practice and as a prosecutor and he would go back to prosecution in a heartbeat if there were the incentive of being able to pay off the student loans that he was forced to take on in order to complete law school while raising children. He doesn't like crimina defense work and he truly enjoys having a hand in putting away the criminals. He has to take an occasional criminal case because that's where the money is. He had the guts to work hard to pull himself out of a poor home and if he could get his student loans paid off would be an amazing asset to prosecution. Don't lump them all together. They aren't all crooks and out to get whatever they can.

Your statement about medical school repayment shows how truly out of touch you are. Most rural doctors DO get their medical school expenses repaid.

As a teacher, I would love to get my student loans repaid. Can someone tell me how to do that? My student loans are too old for any program I can find.

I hear most of the people posting say: that if you are a public servant then you should starve to death. Oklahoma pays its public servants next to nothing and that is one of the reasons we have the problems we have. No one goes into public work thinking I will get rich. But public servants should be able to raise our family and have a middle class life.

And yes the only state law school will not let people work while in law school. Tulsa and OCU have night programs but can you afford 25,000 a year in school cost and pay your bills?
SO IF ONE IS GOING TO LAW SCHOOL THEN ONE IS GOING TO BORROW THE MONEY.

As far as lawyers from years past they did not have to go to law school. They could clerk under a lawyer and then take the bar. We do not live in those times and that is not the system we have today.

If you like to see people arrested and sent to prison. Then we must have a court system and if we have a court system then we need lawyers.

It's all supply and demand. The poorer performing students most often (not always) end up in the DA and PD offices. The better studens make more $ because they work harder and have better intellect. We don't need to start writing laws to reward mediocrity. The other fact is that lawyers don't make as much money as people think because their are too many of them. Again, let's not encourage more people to get a degree where there is no real demand to do so.

I don't doubt is necessary, but seems one sided, Why not make the same deal with ALL college educated govt employees.