If you enroll in law school, you better be sure about your career path. Not only is tuition incredibly high and the workload heavy, but afterwards the job market is more competitive than an individual with seven years of postsecondary education should reasonably have to face. No surprise, law school enrollment across the country is down, according to the Huffington Post.

As a result of law school's inherent risks, the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (ranked 115th out of 194 accredited schools, according to U.S. News) is offering a "master of legal studies degree" for students who complete their first year. As long as they finish year one, they earn the degree, regardless of future drop-out, the Huff Post reported.

"This new opportunity removes at least some of the financial and personal risk inherent in a large educational undertaking, and comes at a time when people appreciate more guarantees," Craig Boise, dean of the law school, said in a news release.

Cleveland-Marshall College is one of several colleges to have recently added the one-year degree, a practice under intense debate among legal professors, according to the National Law Journal.

For one reason against, it's unclear how useful such a degree will be. Even if it does maybe open the door to work in legal fields not requiring the traditional degree (like Kalinda's private investigating position in CBS's "The Good Wife"), it is also red flag that the candidate quite law school after a year.

In defending the one-year degree, Boise defended the one-year drop-out.

"There are many good reasons why a law student may decide not to continue to pursue a J.D.," Boise told the National Law Journal. "They might have financial concerns, family or personal issues, or they may realize that though they still have an interest in law, a career in traditional legal practice is not right for them."

Perhaps the degree might best serve those students who quit law school and seek employment in other fields. Instead of an employer in the legal profession questioning a master of legal studies degree holder's commitment, an employer elsewhere might see it as intriguing and potentially useful quality for a job candidate to have.