15 More ABA-Accredited Law Schools Sued over Job Stats

[bobbyw24]

Updated: The litigation against law schools over employment statistics may be expanding.

Two law firms announced Wednesday that they plan to sue 15 more law schools in seven different states, according to Law School Transparency, which posted the press release. The suits will challenge the schools’ reported employment rates for law graduates.

Prior suits against Cooley Law School, New York Law School and Thomas Jefferson School of Law in California have claimed law students were misled by job statistics that didn't specify whether jobs obtained by grads were in the legal field.

In a conference call with reporters, lawyer Jesse Strauss of Strauss Law said the 15 new schools were targeted either because alumni approached the law firms, the schools were in markets saturated with lawyers, or the schools released implausible statistics. According to the press release, the average debt for 2009 graduates of the 15 schools is more than $108,000.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/arti...ro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email

California: California Western School of Law, Southwestern Law School, and University of San Francisco School of Law (3)

Florida: Florida Coastal School of Law (1)

Illinois: Chicago-Kent College of Law, DePaul University College of Law, and John Marshall School of Law (3)
Maryland: University of Baltimore School of Law (1)

New York: Albany Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Hofstra Law School, Pace University School of Law, and St. John’s University School of Law (5)

Pennsylvania: Villanova University School of Law and Widener University School of Law (also has a campus in Delaware) (2)

http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/2011/10/15-more-aba-approved-law-schools-to-be-sued/

 

[The Midnight Ride]

It is rather disconcerting that an industry which preaches professional responsibility would intentionally mislead students in regards to employment prospects. While these are merely allegations at this time, I would not be shocked if they were truthful.

While I had planned to explore my options anyways, this only serves to raise my desire to continue my studies elsewhere next semester.

 

[Jeez]

Put an end to government sponsored student loans which does no due diligence on the risk or whether a student will be able to pay off his loan. If it private companies that are doing this they won't give out loans to colleges that are behind the curve or pointless degrees that will not land you a job.

 

[LibForestPaul]

Buyer beware. Srsly, they are Graduate Law School Students. Not 18 yr olds going for Associate in Art History.

 

[ZanZibar]

The link is dead

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

It is rather disconcerting that an industry which preaches professional responsibility would intentionally mislead students in regards to employment prospects.

Don't they all in secondary education give false promises to students? Education is now a racket, like .gov and a slew of other conspiring monopolies.

Does anyone else see the irony of this? Quite amuzing

 

[Becker]

for profit education institutes, ironically, do not always have employment statistics in their marketing, as such, they are free from these types of lawsuits.

 

[robskicks]

This same thing happened to me at the institution I attended.

They claimed a 90+ percentage of people who graduated had jobs, well that includes people working at Taco Bell apparently.

 

[Lovecraftian4Paul]

Nothing wrong with that. Lives have been ruined by incurring the debt to go to law school. Thanks to the 2005 bankruptcy law revisions, student loans cannot ever be discharged. These students are partly to blame because they didn't do enough homework, but having misleading statistics doesn't help.

Several years ago I vaguely thought about looking at Law School. Then I found several forums and articles filled with living horror stories, debt slaves for life, people who are seriously thinking about faking their deaths or going to the far corners of the earth to escape six figure debts that they cannot pay back from legal jobs that don't exist. I'm glad I dodged that bullet.

Unless your Law School tuition is being completely paid for upfront by wealthy relatives or scholarships, just don't go. Even then, choosing a school without prestige offers no guarantees.