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"The current proposal would also require a law school to post the bar passage rates and employment outcomes of its graduates by job status and employment type, including the number of graduates working in jobs requiring a law degree and the number of those who are not; and the number of unemployed graduates who are and who are not seeking work."

Anyone wanna place bets on which schools give out the most MRS degrees?

It would be nice if the ABA also had some sort of random audit of these numbers (or, even better, a full audit of every school, but that won't happen) so that we won't have another Villanovagate. Even still, though, this is a much needed first step towards LS transparency. Here's to hoping the ABA goes through with it.

Meh - the schools will just find a new way to game the system. They'll have to be a bit cleverer this time, but I'm sure they'll work something out.

IMO, the only way to solve this problem would be to do what some humanities graduate programs do now: publish a document with each graduate's employment status. They wouldn't have to provide the graduate's name, just the job title and employer.

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"The current proposal would also require a law school to post the bar passage rates and employment outcomes of its graduates by job status and employment type, including the number of graduates working in jobs requiring a law degree and the number of those who are not; and the number of unemployed graduates who are and who are not seeking work....Both proposals would also require law schools to disclose how many graduates are working in full-time or part-time jobs, whether those jobs are short-term or long-term and how many of them are funded by the school from which the job-holder graduated."

As long as the schools aren't allowed to lump JD preferred (I don't really even know what this is, but I guess it exists--lobbying, for instance?) and we-don't-care-if-you-have-a JD jobs together (i.e. Starbucks), then this seems like a BIG step. Yeah, it still might not tell us how many grads are working for 1-866-ACCIDENTES, but it will tell you about how many are doing contract doc review, and how many are really getting no benefit from their JD. Sounds great if it happens.