The Wall Street Journal LawBlog has a post with an update on the remaining employment data related law suits against law schools. It is no big surprise that the few remaining suits continue to fail.
A few thoughts about employment data and law schools:
1. there was a time when a number of law schools used employment data in a way that was morally, if not legally, fraudulent.
2. the ABA-mandated reporting regime has effectively eliminated that problem. There is now more meaningful and accurate employment data about legal education than there is in any other field of higher education. We should be proud of this.
3. there is sometimes too narrow a focus on employment outcomes 9 (or now 10) months after graduation. But the availability of the data has fostered a very meaningful debate about the role and value of legal education.