Lawmakers Probe Law Schools' Data

Ashby Jones:

U.S. Senate staff members are gathering a trove of information about legal education in the U.S., including figures on law school job placement and student-loan debt, in response to questions about whether the nation's law schools have been luring students with bogus data.

The information could serve as a backdrop to hearings on legal education that U.S. senators are "strongly considering," according to a congressional staffer.

So far this year, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.), has sent three letters to the American Bar Association, a section of which accredits law schools, urging the organization to do more "to increase its efforts to protect current and prospective law school students from misleading information."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 16, 2011 2:41 AM
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