[blindlaw] [blind law] US News Likely to Change Law School Ranking Methodology in Wake of ABA Action

[Norman, Gary C. (CMS/OSORA)]

Since the ABA has "provisionally approved" these changes, it might be worthwhile to argue that the survey should also endeavor to capture employment related data about law students with disabilities and lawyers with disabilities.



Sincerely,
Gary

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US News Likely to Change Law School Ranking Methodology in Wake of ABA Action
Posted Jun 20, 2011 10:17 AM CDT
By Mark Hansen

U.S. News & World Report will probably change its law school ranking 
methodology to reflect the new and more detailed job placement information 
the ABA's law school accrediting arm has conditionally agreed to start 
collecting.
If more detailed information on the types and status of legal jobs becomes 
available, U.S. News will collect it, publish it and-where applicable-factor 
it in to its annual Best Law School rankings, Bob Morse, the magazine's 
director of data research, wrote at Morse Code.
Once the information is available, the magazine will use its own law school 
statistical surveys this fall to collect and eventually publish the complete 
set of more detailed jobs and employment data from each law school for last 
year's graduates, Morse said.
"When we gather this richer data set, we will be able to make a more exact 
determination of how our ranking methodology will change," he wrote.
This month, the council of the ABA's Section of Legal Education and 
Admissions to the Bar, the accrediting body for U.S. law schools, 
conditionally approved changes (PDF posted by Law School Transparency) to 
its law school questionnaire requiring law schools to report more detailed 
post-graduate employment information. The changes hinge on a formal 
agreement with the National Association for Law Placement, which collects 
the information, to turn the data over to the ABA.
Under the revised questionnaire, law schools will be required to report how 
many graduates are employed in jobs requiring a law degree; how many are in 
jobs in which a law degree is preferred; how many are in another 
professional or nonprofessional job; and how many are in jobs whose type is 
unknown. The data is broken down by job type, including law firms of various 
sizes; businesses and industry; government; public interest; clerkship; 
academia and unknown.
Law schools also must disclose how many graduates are working in full-time 
or part-time jobs, whether those jobs are short-term or long-term and how 
many of them are funded by the school from which the job-holder graduated.
Schools must also report how many graduates are unemployed or pursuing a 
graduate degree, and how many of the unemployed are looking or not looking 
for a job. They also must identify the top three states in which their 
graduates are employed, the number of graduates working in each state and 
the number of graduates working overseas.

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