ABA Criticized Over Job Placement Plan

Law schools and the American Bar Association, facing criticism over the accuracy and completeness of job placement statistics, have been planning new requirements. But last week, NALP: The Association for Legal Career Professionals, wrote the ABA to oppose proposals that would require more reporting by law schools to the ABA on the issue. NALP, which has collected such data, said that dual reporting requirements would impose burdens on law schools and discourage them from participating in NALP's surveys. Moving ahead with its plans would be "detrimental and harmful to legal education, and will in the long term diminish the amount of information available about the legal employment market," the NALP letter said.