This sounds like a good example of a "labor market imperfection."

Would be curiously interested in the Real motive for this salted expose.

What a great story of success!  Should be a case study for

all educators!

Private colleges should lose their non-profit status.  Like shown here, they exploit the system for personal gain while raising tuition at double (or more) the rate of inflation. What is the justification for their non-profit status anymore?

Perfect example of why non-profits should be taxed like any other company!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am impressed with this article and feel the record of the school has been bolstered by who seems to be a great man for the job. However, in my own research, I found similar results of the stature of the school, once, if I remember correctly, seeing it ranked near 300 of al law schools nationally. Now why is this important to me? Because I was involved in a divorce with Judge, now Chief Justice Paula Carey, presiding. Chief Justice Carey is a graduate of NESL. I sought after the announcement of her being promoted to the position of CJ, which would certainly be a huge honor for the low rated school, and saw a write-up the size of an obituary, as if it was something they knew was awarded based on something different than education and proper promotion...I was shocked. It strongly appeared Judge Carey was part of a system that gave her a path to get to the top. How does one act in the system? Well....favor women-only in its bias, and strongly favored the MA system of PROVEN patronage and preference. This was practiced by allowing anything Lynne Sheridan, my ex, docket 03D1651DV1, wanted. Lynne is a family member of the family of Clerk Archie Keohan.  In fact, I can make a great case that the tampering involved in my case, as well as the allowance of rampant perjury and ignoring pleas for outside professional intervention was similar to the influence written about in the probation department scandal, the more recent scandals about the appointment of those with influence to key positions while not possessing qualifications for duty. Details of my dealings under the watch of CJ Carey are partially at http;//corruptcourts.us/theabusescam and http;//corruptcourts.us/norfolkda.  I would like to see a list of people in the state who are employed in other key positions that come out of the NESL, which may simply be a connected puppy mill for favoritism...get the paper, pass the bar in who-knows-what fashion, and get that promised job somewhere....heck...if it can work on the turnpike authority and in other places, why NOT the courts? And last of a story I'd be more than happy to talk/write about in greater detail, I remain amazed at the Irish Catholic heritage that remains pervasive in the court system, and certainly in NESL. It's waaaay over the numbers that would indicate the profile/heritage of the public, yet there is no mention of a court system with names at the top, and elsewhere, like O'Brien, Mulligan, Carey, Casey, Connolly, Keohane, McDermott, and on and on and on. Was it a surprise to me to see the head of the possible puppy-mill was of an Irish heritage? No. The surprise is that we allow a single heritage that has been successfully accused of association with the corrupt and abusive Archdiocese to use its influence in a corrupt and abusive court system. The link of which I am now aware, that of Mr. O'Brien, really completes a cycle, and like all others connected with the corruption, bias, PRACTICED FAVORITISM we see in state government, the BIG flag being waved is that the compensationof the person/people involved is superior to what it typically is for others. Globe, thank you for uncovering and exposing this school. Next should be a story of who in the state has gone through the 300-or-so-ranked puppy mill, and where they are today and what they have done. I'll always say CJ Carey is a very smart woman, but smart is one thing, coniving is another. The record of my case shows a shrewdness towards corruption and abuse in MA that needs to end.  It takes more than a black Chief Justice to demonstrate diversity in the legal system, and certainly takes more than an Irish heritage to run the village. 

Another non-profit leech gets caught. The compensation is absurd. I wonder how much gets kicked back to Foster.

As a graduate of New England School of Law, I am grateful for the opportunity the school afforded me.  And it was affordable, back in 1986 when I enrolled.  I am absolutely astounded that New England's tuition has skyrocketed, especially when the value of a law degree has plummeted.  Today's law school graduates are little more than indentured servants, seemingly forever handcuffed to crippling student loan debt.  It is especially disconcerting to learn of Dean O'Brien's spiking salary when New England pays parttime teachers a few thousand to teach courses.  Dean O'Brien has always struck me as a mediocre legal talent and administrator who has "succeeded" by perfecting the art of brown nosing.  That New England remains mired at the bottom of the national rankings demonstrates that O'Brien has had no success, in  25 years at the helm, at attracting the best professors and students.  Indeed, it sounds as if New England has slipped further down the rankings.  Yet, it rewards O'Brien with a salary commesurate with the Dean of Harvard Law School?

This article will further damage New England's reputation in the community.  Obviously, it is time for O'Brien and the rest of those administrators/directors, etc., who are shamelessly feeding off escalating tuitions to hit the road.  Perhaps, O'Brien can use his connections to secure a modest paying job at a law firm specializing in debt collections.  That way he can continue to harass those who have amassed a small fortune in student loan debt attending a third tier law school.

If NEL|B were a for profit company, and success were measured by the number of students with law degree-required jobs, Dean O'Brien would have been fired long ago. However, NEL|B is a non-profit, and success appears to be measured by Dean/Board compensation and Dean O'Brien is the longest serving law school dean in the Nation. As a current student I would like to personally thank the dean for dragging all of us through the mud with him. Now not only is it difficult to overcome the fact that "NEL|B" is the worst part of our resumes, but we are now considered "gullible" by the Boston community. Success in this field should be based on putting students in law firms and in law degree-required jobs, not on bar passage rate (which doesn't matter at all to those graduates who can't find jobs anyways). Its time for the Dean to step down, as his "prominence" is now a hindrance to his students.

Lawyers have been affected by the economic crisis, like people in many professions.  Applicants to graduate school need to think about that when deciding whether to get an advanced degree.  If a school is well-managed, it's reasonable for administrators' salaries to reflect that.

the scaM of higher ed

...in addition to student debt absorbing the high tuition, college staff at institutions like this are facing increased workloads while being hit hard with pay cuts, hiring feeze at many colleges, & benefit reductions.   

The same scrutiny could, and should, be applied to to the con game that is, in general, American higher eduction today. Show me a university or college whose tuition rates have not greatly outstripped the annual cost of living increases, whose administration is not overstaffed and lazy, and whose professoriate is not vastly overpaid for the job it performs: teaching students what to think rather than how to think.  

worse than wall st CEOs. greed run amok and with non profit status yet