Friday, December 20, 2019
Puff piece on "Law School Transparency" at Bloomberg Law
This is pretty thin. I spoke to the reporter for a half hour, pointing out that the key turning point for transparency was when the ABA mandated better reporting of emplyment data by schools after getting pressure from Senators Boxer and Coburn back in 2010-11. None of these facts made it into the article, because the reporter had already decided, I guess, to do a puff piece on LST (which, to be honest, I didn't realize still existed until she called me). The reporter was puzzled that law school Deans say almost nothing about LST; I pointed out the obvious reason: because it's irrelevant, in a way the ABA is not.
(The last I recall hearing about LST was when they tried to "shakedown" law schools back in 2013.)
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2019/12/puff-piece-on-law-school-transparency-at-bloomberg-law.html