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A New Proposal To Ensure That Going To Law School Actually Helps You Get A Job

That's one way to crack down on accreditation standards.

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Maybe people had not been aware [of] the gap [in legal employment outcomes] that’s there. The research I did brings out some data that may not have been previously noticed. There probably has been a sense that [ABA standards pertaining to] bar pass, attrition, and admissions effectively assure that graduates of schools are finding legal employment in sufficiently large numbers. But when you take a closer look at that data, you see there is a small but not insignificant group of schools with persistently very weak employment outcomes.

— Scott Norberg, Florida International University College of Law professor, speaking to Law.com about why his proposal to make employment in legal jobs a part of law school accreditation standards hasn’t previously been implemented. He suggests a 60 percent employment rate in two of the past five years in legal jobs or a 75 percent employment rate in either full-time bar passage-required or J.D. advantage jobs within 22 months of graduation.

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