Two InfiLaw schools-the Charlotte School of Law, which closed in August, and the Arizona Summit Law School-were recently put on probation by the ABA for not being in compliance with standards governing admissions and bar passage rates. It accuses for-profit law schools of having “perverse financial incentives.” Much of it centers on the InfiLaw System, which has three for-profit law schools. The article was written by Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. It was a great piece but also a troubling issue and I started researching and the novel was quickly born from that.” “I was not familiar with for-profit law schools and I was not really familiar with the student debt crisis,” Grisham told CBS. The attorney-author told CBS News that his plot was inspired by a 2014 story in the Atlantic titled “The Law-School Scam.” Third-year students at a for-profit law school who have accumulated huge amounts of student debt are the subjects of John Grisham’s latest legal thriller, The Rooster Bar.
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