{"id":333,"date":"2011-02-15T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=333"},"modified":"2011-02-15T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T23:15:16","slug":"truth-in-law-school-education-aba-young-lawyers-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2011\/02\/15\/truth-in-law-school-education-aba-young-lawyers-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth in Law School Education:  ABA Young Lawyers Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In earlier posts, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2010\/08\/09\/the-market-for-j-d-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Market for J.D.s<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2010\/01\/18\/law-school-debt-loads\/\" target=\"_blank\">Law School Debt Loads,<\/a><\/em> I talked about the bi-modal distribution of starting salaries for recent law graduates, and the problem of increasing student debt-loads.\u00a0 Over the last year, there have been increasing calls for greater transparency in law school reporting of the types of\u00a0 jobs, and salaries, of recent graduates.\u00a0 At its meeting on Saturday, February 12, 2011, the Young Lawyer&#8217;s Division (YLD)\u00a0of the ABA adopted a r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanow.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/files_flutter\/1297605354yld_res_1yl.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">esolution<\/a>\u00a0throwing the YLD&#8217;s support behind the Truth in Law School Education resolution.\u00a0 The introductory paragraph of the attached\u00a0Report\u00a0says it all:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is incumbent upon the legal profession and law schools to provide each and every potential and current law student with information that will accurately reflect the employment and financial realities that they will face upon graduation from law school. The American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division (\u201cABA YLD\u201d), as \u201cthe home for young lawyers,\u201d believes that the Truth in Law School Education (\u201cTILSE\u201d) resolution is the first step towards achieving that goal. The ABA YLD strongly believes that there is a disconnect between law students\u2019 perception of their employment prospects upon completion of their law school education and the reality of what law students will realistically achieve. Those entering our profession should have an accurate understanding of the employment opportunities and salaries available to recent law school graduates. There is a greater need for publicly-available, accessible facts for prospective law school students, so that these individuals are able to make a more informed decision regarding their future careers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information,\u00a0 read Karen Sloan&#8217;s National Law Journal article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1202481965706&amp;ABA_Division_Adopts_Resolution_for_Truth_in_Law_School_Education&amp;slreturn=1&amp;hbxlogin=1\" target=\"_blank\">available on Law.com on February 15, 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip, <a href=\"http:\/\/taxprof.typepad.com\/taxprof_blog\/2011\/02\/aba-division.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tax Prof.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>posted by Gary Rosin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In earlier posts, The Market for J.D.s and Law School Debt Loads, I talked about the bi-modal distribution of starting salaries for recent law graduates, and the problem of increasing student debt-loads.\u00a0 Over the last year, there have been increasing calls for greater transparency in law school reporting of the types of\u00a0 jobs, and salaries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aba","category-employment","category-law-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}