On Wednesday, Gary Rosin noted that the ABA had put up - and then taken down - a link to proposed language adding job placement benchmarks to law school accreditation standards. We now have an explanation for what occurred. Scott Norberg, Deputy Consultant on Legal Education for the ABA, writes to clarify:
The posting was of a subcommittee draft for an earlier meeting, not December, and the matter was not acted upon by the Council and is now off the table. Once we realized it was mistakenly still on the website, we pulled it off because it could be misleading.
The Council is still considering the use of placement data in accreditation reviews. We plan to be more explicit in reviewing placement data for how it may reflect on any aspect of a law school's program, from quality of the academic program to the adequacy of career services. We do not at this stage propose to change any Standards or to establish a benchmark placement rate for schools as a compliance matter.
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