In a "Stanford Law Review" article, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) law professor Richard Sander claimed to statistically prove that affirmative action at American law schools actually depressed the number of African Americans who become lawyers by "mismatching" them at schools where they were in over their heads academically. This policy brief demonstrates that Sander's prediction of a 7.9% net increase in black lawyers if affirmative action ended today is so unlikely that it is essentially impossible. In fact, based on the 2004 admissions data, an annual decline of 30% to 40% in African American attorneys is more likely if affirmative action ended. This policy brief also reviews the key methodological flaws in Sander's study of African Americans in legal education, and also situates Latinos in this analysis. The benefits Sander projects would result from ending affirmative action and shunting underrepresented students to lower-ranked schools are quite speculative. (Contains 1 figure, 1 table, and 41 endnotes.)