A Bunch of Young Lawyers are Suing Their Law Schools Because They Don't Have Jobs

[GoldenRivet]

I think some folks misunderstand

They are not suing the college because they are unemployed.

They are suing the college because it used falsified data to increase enrollment numbers into a high cost degree program.

Ultimately, this no doubt influenced some of these people to enroll in the degree program as opposed to following some other field of study.

not having a job isnt so much the point...

false advertising is the point.

If you attended a school and majored in nursing because the school advertised 98% job placement, and you spent gobs of money getting your education only to find out that the school had falsified their job placement numbers - and that in reality only 58% of graduates found employment after graduation. would you not be a tad pissed at the falsification?

would these people gather any more sympathy if they had been of some other profession?

what if they had been minorities entering some basic business management major. and the school had said that 98% of their business management majors find jobs after graduation only to later realize that - oops - its actually 20-30% less than that number we advertised.

I dunno... i think they have a case if they can prove the numbers were intentionally altered - I've seen this kind of crap at 3 schools and there needs to be more "truth in advertising" if you ask me.

They are suing the college because it used falsified data to increase enrollment numbers into a high cost degree program.

It wasn't falsified though was it, slightly misleading maybe but thats the nature of advertising, for potential lawyers they should have read the small print and footnotes and small print on smallprint on footnotes of small print.
After all taking on a $150k debt isn't something you should do without looking at all the details.
The details specify that the % is only % according to some big deductions on incomplete figures and then some further juggling of numbers, placements are only placements and not job specific, employers are only employers it doesn't specify that people are working at the screen actors guild as lawyers and not as teaboy, it even specifies that the guided salary is only a rough guide with lots of variables and can't be taken as an actual measure.

So that looks like the fraud one is out the window, it also suggest negligent misrepresentation by the school is out the window as its more like negligently taking on a debt as a student without reading the blurb.

there needs to be more "truth in advertising" if you ask me.

advertising is all about telling people what they want to hear.
If they read 88%* and don't read the * and the ## and the *~*%, and somehow think 88% become lawyers within 9 months of graduation with a wage of $160k at Pfizer then they are proving the old line about there being one born every minute.