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Friday, October 21, 2011
Law - "American Bar Association taking steps to ensure integrity of employment data from law schools"
The subhead to this column today in Ameet Sachdev's Chicago Law is "Some recent graduates have sued their law schools for advertising deceptively high rates of employment and misleading starting salaries." It begins:
The University of Illinois' recent admission that it had falsified admissions data at its law school isn't the only controversy over data collection going on in legal education.The integrity of employment statistics posted by law schools has been called into question by recent graduates who have been unable to find work or are working in temporary jobs because of dramatic cutbacks in the legal profession. Stuck with massive student loans, some grads have sued their law schools for advertising deceptively high rates of employment and misleading starting salaries.
Their plight has recently caught the attention of Congress, turning mundane job statistics into a hot political issue for the Chicago-based American Bar Association. The ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar accredits law schools.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 21, 2011 11:32 AM
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