Professor LAWRENCE GOSTIN (Georgetown University Law School): It's a really significant problem.

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"It often makes you 'joint and severally liable' for any problem, " says Carlton Smith of Cardozo Law School in New York.

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The problem with these numbers is they are grossly misleading and are contributing to the rise in law school enrollment which is up 19% over the past decade and saw nearly 52, 000 students enroll for the 2009-10 academic year.

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