Harvard Law Will Cut Tuition For A Pledge To Serve The Public

Concerned by the low numbers of law students choosing careers in public service, Harvard Law School plans to waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working either for nonprofit organizations or the government. For years, prosecutors, public defenders and lawyers in traditionally low-paying areas of the law have argued that financial pressures were pushing graduates toward corporate law and away from the kind of careers that they would pursue in the absence of tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/18law.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin