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Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, has sent a letter to the American Bar Association, calling on it to take more meaningful steps to make sure that law schools report accurate statistics on job placement to prospective students. The ABA has said that it is moving on the issue and strengthening its rules. But citing lawsuits and media reports, Boxer wrote to the ABA that it was not doing enough.
"In a year when a number of lawsuits alleging consumer protection law violations have been filed against ABA law schools, when major newspapers have devoted thousands of words to problems with law school reporting practices, and when two United States senators have encouraged significant changes to your policies, it is surprising that the ABA is resorting to half measures instead of tackling a major problem head on," Boxer wrote.
She called for independent oversight and auditing of the statistics reported by law schools.
