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

[Steve P. Deeley]

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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> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
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> Subject: [blindlaw] US News Likely to Change Law School Ranking 
> 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/?
>
> 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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