Several law schools will have to defend themselves in court, thanks to lawsuits that spawned from colleges’ manipulations of misleading graduate employment data. In essence, many law schools may have lied about how many of their students were employed after graduation.
But in the first case to make it to court, a judge dismissed the charges against New York Law School:
Alexandra Gomez-Jimenez and several fellow plaintiffs said New York Law used fraudulent employment and salary figures in recruitment materials, leading them to believe they were almost assured a lucrative job upon graduation when in fact many of them struggled to find full-time employment.
A state judge, Melvin L. Schweitzer, rejected the plaintiffs’ argument that misleading statistics led them to overvalue their legal education, ruling that New York Law School framed its data accurately and that prospective law students are “sophisticated consumers” capable of analyzing that information.
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