A bitter turf war has broken out between the National Association for Law Placement and the American Bar Association over the collection of law school postgraduate employment data, with NALP hinting that it might sue the ABA.
Last week, the executive committee of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar decided to require law schools to report directly to the ABA far more detailed information about graduates’ jobs and salaries, essentially cutting NALP out of the reporting process. The decision represented a departure from an earlier recommendation by the section’s questionnaire committee to require the reporting of detailed statistics, but to rely on NALP to collect and sort the data.
