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.”