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Law Schools On Trial, Poor Employment Statistics To Blame

What did your law school's job statistics used to look like? Probably just as bad as the stats now being litigated in court.

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hire me sign (2)You’d have to be living under a rock to not know that law school offers variable outcomes. The numbers don’t look very good, but at least they’re honest.

If you look at the bad outcomes of 2010 and 2011, I’m not sure we no longer have those bad outcomes. The remuneration, at least early career, is out of whack with the price of law school.

The ABA did the right thing in changing the reporting requirements, they just did it about two years too late. If they’d done it earlier, all of this would have been avoided.

— Professor William Henderson of Indiana University Maurer School of Law, a frequent commentator on the state of the legal profession, offering his thoughts on the current entry-level employment landscape and the shoddy post-graduate employment reporting requirements once used by the ABA that led up to Anna Alaburda’s lawsuit against her alma mater, Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Alaburda alleges that TJSL’s employment statistics were deceptive, and the historic trial began earlier this week. Click here to see our extensive coverage of the case.

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