The ABA announced yesterday that it would be developing new rules requiring law schools to provide the regulator employment data and subjecting schools that falsify placement data to sanctions. It will achieve this by effectively displacing NALP as the primary placement data recipient - and attaching punishment to any evil-doers who submit bogus numbers.
The ABA has been under fire in all directions recently. On the one hand, some commentators think it should actively protect the legal industry from too many entrants by imposing stricter accreditation limits. On the other hand, some free marketeers think that the ABA is too active - and should get out of the way, allowing a thousand law school flowers to bloom. But almost every pundit agrees that in the area of consumer protection - insuring that law schools provide accurate data to potential students - the ABA needs to step up its game. It appears that the ABA is attempting to do just that. Whether this move will satisfy the critics remains to be seen.
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