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ABA May Join Push for Law School Transparency

October 19, 2010
/ Law Profession in Crisis

19 October 2010 — According to a story in today’s National Law Journal, the American Bar Association is considering requiring law schools to disclose cost and employment statistics to all accepted law school applicants. The effort, dubbed “Truth in Law School Education,” is still in the planning phase.

Meanwhile several ABA Sections and subcommittees are working on salary and employment questions for law school questionnaires, and Standard 509 which covers the consumer information law schools must collect and disclose.

ABA President Steve Zack is quoted as saying that law schools have an incentive to present data in the best possible light, since law schools are “huge profit centers” on college campuses.

“I think some of the numbers are cooked. To play the U.S. News & World Report game, law schools are creating jobs for graduates so they can say they are employed when they really aren’t,” Zach said.

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