George, you left out the first reason given in the story for the establishment of The Charlotte School of Law: ?We found that Charlotte was the largest city in the U.S. without a law school,? said Gene Clark, the dean of the school.
Lawyering is a field that can be an attractive mid-career move. The cost of doing so, however, is especially high in Charlotte, because there aren’t any law schools nearby. This is simply a case of a private company stepping in to fill an educational niche that the state, for various reasons, isn’t interested in covering.
