The group looked at the Web sites of 197 American Bar Association-accredited law schools in early January to assess the amount and quality of the job placement data provided. More than a quarter of those schools — 54 — offered no meaningful information, including 22 that offered no information at all and 32 that used “consumer-disorienting behavior” — for example, citing figures for the kinds of workplaces in which graduates found jobs but nothing about the types of jobs, the organization reported.
“Our findings play into a larger dialogue about law schools and their continued secrecy against a backdrop of stories about admissions fraud, class action lawsuits, and ever rising education costs,” the organization wrote. “These findings raise a red flag as to whether schools are capable of making needed changes to the current, unsustainable law school model without being compelled to though government oversight or other external forces.”
