to help us get a hand on this, jillian hatfield is a professional of law and economics at the university of southern california school of law and paul campos is a professional at the university of colorado law school. he is the author of don't go to law school, unless. welcome to all of you. so paul. in just four years, we've gone from record high numbers of aspiring lawyers entering law school to some of the lowest enrollment numbers in decades. we're not talking about a little decline. this is dropping off a cliff. what's going on? >> i think what's going on is for the first time prospective law students are able to access some reasonably accurate information about job prospects, salaries and cost of attendance in regard to the investment that they would be making in a law degree and this has had a very strong effect on enrollments. because what many people are coming to the conclusion of is that it's just not worth it to pay $150,000 in tuition, to get, in many cases, less than a 50-50 shot of getting a job as a lawyer with many of those jobs paying $50,000 a year or less. >> so walte