While there are 47 LRAPs, the payout from just six school LRAPs constitute 70 percent of the total amount spent on LRAPs. Significantly Increased the Size of Their LRAPs Since 1994. Some Schools Decreased or Eliminated Funding for LRAPs. Fourteen Schools Have Public Interest Scholarship Programs. In contrast with LRAPs, which assist graduates once they go into public interest work, public interest scholarships help students avoid accumulating huge debt loads while in law school.
Law schools are a critical gateway to the legal profession.
Each school has a responsibility to send forth law graduates who will represent all members of our society, those who can afford representation and those who cannot. One way to ensure that within the next generation of lawyers, there will be committed and able lawyers ready to work in the public interest and represent those unable to afford their services, is for law schools to improve or institute well-funded LRAPs and public interest scholarship programs.