Law Graduate Gets Her Day in Court, Suing Law School

[karlsch]

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[Ummagumma]

While brazenly cooking graduate employment numbers should be punished, I always assumed that any party I was dealing with that had anything at all to gain from getting my business would try to present themselves a bit too optimistically and it was up to me to to some extra research.

And I am an engineer, not a lawyer.

She's 90% to blame.

[Speleothem]

She passed the Bar exam; the school did its job.

[MTQ3000]

Originally Posted by Ummagumma

While brazenly cooking graduate employment numbers should be punished, I always assumed that any party I was dealing with that had anything at all to gain from getting my business would try to present themselves a bit too optimistically and it was up to me to to some extra research.

And I am an engineer, not a lawyer.

She's 90% to blame.

To be fair, how do you verify stats that only the law school had access to?

Of course, in this case, it was one of the worst schools in the nation so a reasonable person can guess how bad the hiring numbers should have been.

Mick

[Ummagumma]

Originally Posted by MTQ3000

To be fair, how do you verify stats that only the law school had access to?

Of course, in this case, it was one of the worst schools in the nation so a reasonable person can guess how bad the hiring numbers should have been.

Mick

I will assume from the start that the school wants my tuition $$$ and therefore is likely to oversell their degree. I am not saying that I expect them to be lying outright, more like try & pitch a sale to me.

And there are many sources in which you can look up a given school's rank among it's peers.

By the time most kids show up in a law / medical / engineering school admissions office, I'd expect them to have already made up their mind based on their own research. If she walked into the law school to get a very expensive education that would become a lifetime career, all without having done her homework, who's to blame. Even I - not being remotely close to law - know that the lawyers' job is not guaranteed unless you go to the top tier school or are really good.

Again... certainly if schools cook their employment numbers, they should be punished. But the real blame lies with this girl.

If my kid walks into a McDonald's and ends up paying $100k to be trained as a burger flipper because they told him that it's a great career, shame on me and him.