Sunday, May 3, 2015

In the bad 'ole days when law schools were not very forthcoming about employment outcomes, LST was a useful counterweight. But since Senators Boxer and Coburn prevailed on the ABA to mandate more detailed reporting a few years ago, LST has persisted in its misleading practice of treating JD/PhD students as "underemployed" and treating JD/MBAs or pure JDs in consulting and other renumerative professions as not part of the employment count for schools; so, too, the JD/Masters in Public Policy types who go into think tanks also don't count. Notice that, by the odd LST methodology, Yale only has about 73% of its class employed, no doubt because there are many JD/PhD students as well as students in these other categories. LST really ought to change with the times, instead of massaging the data in ways that are misleading.

https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2015/05/law-school-transparencys-odd-campaign-of-disinformation.html