Law School Wins in Graduate Suit
1,707 views · Published 22 March 2012 · 3:39 · Indexed 26 October 2026
Channel: The Wall Street Journal · 2012 · News & Politics
A New York judge on Wednesday threw out one of the first of more than a dozen lawsuits around the country that accuse law schools of luring students with misleading post-graduate job statistics and leaving them saddled with debt at a time of contraction in the legal industry. The plaintiffs, a group of nine New York Law School graduates, had alleged in a lawsuit last year that the school's marketing materials led them to believe that between 90% and 92% of the school's graduates secured full-time jobs as lawyers. But those job numbers also included students in part-time jobs, as well as jobs that didn't require a law degree, the lawsuit said. Don’t miss a WSJ video, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http://www.wsj.com Visit the WSJ Video Center: https://wsj.com/video On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/wsj/videos/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJ On Snapchat: https://on.wsj.com/2ratjSM
