Those queries will not appear on the questionnaire that law schools will be required to submit next month for the class of 2010. The ABA’s questionnaire committee finalized that list of questions on Sept. 23, prompting criticism from some reformers that the ABA is protecting law schools from reporting what would surely be grim statistics.
“By all accounts, 2010 is the worst of a series of very bad years so far,” said Brian Tamanaha, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. “And now, owing to this decision, law schools do not have to say precisely how bad it was. NALP [the National Association for Law Placement] will still ask the question, but it publishes only aggregate data, not data on individual schools.”
