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&lt;p&gt;&quot;Law schools thus responded to the worst recession in the legal market in at least two decades by letting in more law students.&quot; So wrote Brian Tamanaha, Washington University Law professor and blogger at Balkinzation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comparing LSAC&#39;s number of total admitted applicants who enrolled with the Department of Labor&#39;s number of total law-related (attorney and non-attorney) employees, Tamanaha found that in 2009, despite the huge and ongoing drop-off in legal employment, law schools actually increased admitted students by five percent. And that uptick surpassed the percentage increase in law school applications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brian Leiter noted: &quot;One can&#39;t tell, though, from the second chart what portion of the downturn in &#39;legal employment&#39; is a reduction in the employment of attorneys as opposed to other law-related employees.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A conclusion to draw here is that the increasing number of people applying to law school doesn&#39;t seem too daunted by the grim job market. Or they do, but go anyways for whatever reasons. Or they&#39;re waiting the recession out in school. And possibly, but unlikely, they just have a spare $100,000-plus burning a whole in their pocket to spend on something that experts are deeming an unsustainable model.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Law school hopefuls: What are your reasons for wanting to go to law school in the worst legal job market in decades?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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