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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Law - "3 Chicago law schools sued by graduates"
Ameet Sachdev of the Chicago Tribune reports this morning:
Three Chicago law schools were sued Wednesday for allegedly deceiving students by inflating post-graduate employment information.See the whole story here.The allegations were made in three separate lawsuits brought by recent graduates of John Marshall Law School, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and DePaul University College of Law. The allegations in each complaint are similar.
The alumni accuse the law schools of falsely advertising for several years since 2000 that 90 percent or more of its students were employed nine months after graduation. They allege that the numbers included students with any kind of job, even ones that had nothing to do with the legal industry.
The plaintiffs also allege the schools inflated the average salaries paid graduates because they were based on a small, deliberately selected sample of high-earners.
The graduates said they relied on the data in deciding where to attend law school. Contrary to the school's rosy representations of the job market, the students graduated with limited job prospects and mounting debt.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 2, 2012 10:20 AM
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