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

[Nightingale, Noel]

I do not believe that anyone has good data on the percentage of blind attorneys who are employed or even the broader category of attorneys with disabilities who are employed.    We don't even have great data on how many attorneys with disabilities are employed.  

We, individually, of course, have our gut feelings about the question.   Mine is that many blind attorneys who are employed are disproportionately in comparison with their sighted peers practicing law on behalf of governments or as solo practitioners.

It could be a project of the National Association of Blind Lawyers to conduct a survey of blind attorneys through state bar associations, but even then, it may not be statistically accurate given the voluntary nature of responses.


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Does anyone know the percentage of blind attorneys who are currently employed?
Steve
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> 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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> On Behalf Of Dennis Clark
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> Methodology in Wake of ABA Action
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> http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/us_news_likely_to_change_law_school_ranking_methodology/?
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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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