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Additional 15 Law Schools Could Face Class Action Lawsuits Over Job Stats
By Matt O’Donnell
Two law firms announced plans last week to sue 15 additional law schools in seven states for publishing what they described as misleading postgraduate job statistics. The new law school class action lawsuits will join prior suits against New York Law School and Thomas M. Cooley Law School, which claim law students were misled by job statistics that didn’t specify whether jobs obtained by grads were in the legal field.
In a press conference, the law firms announced they will target 15 more law schools because either alumni approached them with concerns, the schools were in markets saturated with lawyers, or because the schools reported “implausible” statistics to the American Bar Association. They offered compelling evidence that numerous law schools have offered a skewed picture of postgraduate employment rates and salaries for years.
“The problem isn’t going away, and the legal academy isn’t owning up to it,” said one of the attorneys in the press conference. “We strongly believe that by the end of 2012, almost every school in the nation will be sued, if not by plaintiffs who are represented by us, then by plaintiffs represented by other law firms.”
The firms’ current class action lawsuits against New York Law School and Thomas M. Cooley Law School are seeking tuition refunds and other remedies, including independent auditing of law school jobs data. The suits followed on the heels of a class action lawsuit filed against San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law, which accuses the school of committing fraud by misrepresenting employment statistics.
The 15 additional schools being targeted in the law school class action lawsuits are:
Albany Law School of Union University
University of Baltimore School of Law
Brooklyn Law School
California Western School of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
DePaul University College of Law
Florida Coastal School of Law
The John Marshall Law School (Chicago)
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
Pace Law School
University of San Francisco School of Law
St. John’s University School of Law
Southwestern Law School
Villanova University School of Law
Widener University School of Law
Updated October 12th, 2011
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