From the Executive Summary of the Winter 2012 Transparency Index Report (January 2012) by Law School Transparency: As a new year unfolds and the debate about legal education reform continues, efforts in furtherance of law school transparency remain critical. While…
Posts Tagged ‘Placement’
Just Below the Law: Odds are high that this may be your future, Class of 2012 grads
06
Jan
If you are not about to graduate from a top 10 national law school (even then, you damn well be pretty high in the class rank), your law school’s placement office staff may not adivse you of this except with…
Hello Congress, Want to Eliminate Wasteful Public Spending in the Legal Academy?
30
Nov
Why do we keep reading that new law schools are being launched when there is and has been for some time an oversupply of lawyers in the labor market? Because employment prospects look great based on fudged placement data? I…
The Unknown 61.9% of the 99% Placement Claim
11
Nov
Hat tip ATL’s Elie Mystal for the below photo (click to enlarge) from The Dissenter’s We Are the 99 Percent’ Photo of the Day. At The 99 Percent’s Take On Law School Employment Statistics, Mystal writes: Would it be so…
15 More Law Schools Being Sued Targeted: Class Action Complaints Would Challenge Placement Stats (Updated)
05
Oct
Update: Karen Sloan is reporting the following based on a conference call with David Anziska and Jesse Strauss covering the law schools they are targeting for class action lawsuits: They have yet to secure enough name plaintiffs for those suits,…
Are BigLaw Firms Gaming AmLaw Rankings?
23
Aug
We all know that some, many, most, whatever, law schools game placement stats for US News Law School Rankings but Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group is reporting that more than half of the nation’s top 50 law firms could…
NALP on ABA Job Reporting: Not So Fast There Buddy
02
Aug
There is at least one or more angles to the ABA upping its law school data placement information I’d like to mention. See Joe’s post from earlier today, ABA Revises Law School Placement Data Reporting Requirements. The first is that…
ABA Revises Law School Placement Data Reporting Requirements
02
Aug
Quoting from the July 27, 2011 press release, ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Will Collect Additional Employment Information from Law Schools in its Annual Questionnaire: [T]he 2011 Annual Questionnaire will request from law schools information…
Class Action Filed Against Thomas Jefferson School of Law Over Misrepresentation of Placement Data
31
May
A big hat tip Kyle McEntee, Executive Director of Law School Transparency (LST) for calling attention to this pending class action lawsuit filed by a Thomas Jeferson School of Law (San Diego, CA) grad who is seeking judicial relief from…
