Law Students Push for Transparency, More Info Re: Law School Employment Stats

Two Vanderbilt law students have created a new website where they hope to publish better job and salary information for all ABA-accredited law schools.  Students Patrick Lynch and Kyle McEntee say law schools hide their employment data in aggregate form. 

The two students have created a website called Law School Transparency where they hope to publish more specifics. They want to describe in more detail where law school graduates end up working each year and how much value they received from their degree.  In particular, they want each school to provide information about each student nine months after graduation that includes employer type, employer name, position name, whether bar passage is required or preferred, full-time or part-time status, office location, whether the student worked on a law journal, and salary. 

In a paper published at SSRN, Lynch and McEntee argue that summaries for each law school in the ABA’s official guide can be confusing. Prospective students looking at the summary table for a law school will see the number of grads employed in law firms, but they won’t be able to tell whether they were working as attorneys, law clerks, paralegals, contract attorneys or administrators. 

For the full article from the National Law Journal click here.