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Deceiving Law Students: Employment Statistics & Tort Liability, Angie D. Roberts-Huckaby
Deceiving Law Students: Employment Statistics & Tort Liability, Angie D. Roberts-Huckaby
Angie D. Roberts-Huckaby
Controversy is rampant in American legal education. In less than a year, an unprecedented fourteen separate class action lawsuits have been filed against fourteen different law schools. The lawsuits each allege that the schools have disseminated postgraduate employment statistics in ways that are fraudulent and misleading. Students’ primary goal, when applying to law school, is to become lawyers. Law school is not an institution students attend merely to satisfy intellectual curiosity. Law school is a grueling three-year endurance race challenging student’s intellectual reasoning, emotional rationale, and financial security. Therefore, it is critical for students to choose the right school7 Law …