The Connecticut Law Tribune is reporting that the “chairman of an American Bar Association committee is defending a decision not to require law schools to report the percentage of their 2010 graduates who landed jobs requiring bar passage or the percentage of graduates in part-time jobs.”
The reason the committee claims that this action was taken was because “members were uncomfortable with the way different types of jobs are defined.”
The more reasonable and logical explanation is that so few law school graduates find jobs requiring their law degrees that the information would embarrass law schools trying to recruit law students.
And my thesis is backed up by a two year old study.
“The move was criticized by Brian Tamanaha, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law whose analysis of Class of 2009 data compiled by the group Law School Transparency concluded that half or less of graduates from 30 ABA-accredited schools had jobs requiring a law degree after nine months. ”
“The ABA questionnaire committee was not trying to protect law schools by omitting the so-called “J.D. preferred” question, said chairman Art Gaudio, dean of Western New England University School of Law,” the Law Journal said.
Considering that many law school graduates are happy working at $25 an hour, or less, as independent contractors, and that Indian lawyers are now working as researchers for American law firms, students considering law school should know better.
This economy needs more lawyers as much as it needs more Liberal Arts majors, journalists, or bankers. Parents and students, please consider what profession makes sense in the future before spending $100,000 or more on an education that ends up preparing for a job at a fast food restaurant.
It dropped that question this year because members were uncomfortable with the way different types of jobs are defined, he said. In the past, schools reported the percentage of recent graduates in jobs that require bar passage, jobs for which a J.D. was preferred and jobs that did not require a J.D. The committee plans to develop an improved definition for the J.D.-required question and to include it on the survey for the class of 2011, Gaudio told The National Law Journal. The move was criticized by Brian Tamanaha, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law whose analysis of Class of 2009 data compiled by the group Law School Transparency concluded that half or less of graduates from 30 ABA-accredited schools had jobs requiring a law degree after nine months.
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