REUTERS — Yale Law School plans to wipe out tuition for low-income students starting in the fall, which its dean hopes will spark a wider move toward need-based financial aid in legal education. For the next three years, the school will provide full-tuition scholarships for 45 to 50 students in its J.D. program whose family income falls below the federal poverty line (currently $27,750 in annual income) and whose assets are below $150,000. That means about 9% of the class will automatically qualify for annual scholarships worth more than $70,000. The endowed program, which the school aims to grow over time, will apply to current first- and second-year students as well as the new class that starts in the fall. “I want to provide as much support as we can to our highest need students,” said Yale Law Dean Heather Gerken in an interview Tuesday. “For students who come from below the poverty line, I want to be able to free them from the need to pay any tuition at all.”