Irony: Graduates of law schools sue their own law schools

Because of some of the absurd dog-related court cases through the years, we have not always treated lawyers kindly.

Maybe this is why:

In New York graduates of New York Law School and Cooley Law School have filed a class action suit against their schools claiming to be victims of “a systematic, on going fraud.”

And in California Anna Alaburda has organized a class action suit against San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law. The class includes 2300 potential members seeking damages of over $50 million.

The suits claim that the law schools grossly overstated employment and salary figures of lawyers. Statistics were”false, misleading, and intentionally designed to deceive all who read them."

So the young law graduates not only can’t afford to put a down payment on a BMW, they can’t even find a job. Seems there are already too many lawyers glutting the marketplace.

Wow, who knew?

Do you want fries with that?

Just one more story that none of us could make up.

Comments

[Two Grads]

Hi! We write a pup blog about being a law student. And we live in New York. Unfortunately, I graduate this year with $210,000 of debt before my interest kicks in and there is only 20% employment rate. I know a lot of people have warped views of lawyers and how much they make, and I agree this lawsuit is egregious. But its a scary world out there for verizon union workers, teachers, lawyers, and miners alike. Everyone has a job and profession and were all just trying to earn a living!

[Jan]

I hope I didn't seem unsympathetic to the plight of the young graduate. For law students all that time and money needed to finally pass the bar and then to discover that the jobs that had been promised are not there...I think bringing suit for fraud is a way of drawing attention to the deceit practiced by law schools.

[mb.]

The not-so-many-jobs-after-all is practiced by many secondary schools. At the local state campus here in Fladidah it is the school of business getting sued for counting job offers as jobs, among other things in promotional materials (so if I offer you, with your master's in say advertising, a job as a part-time mother's helper for $7 per hour + lunch well that counts as a job, right?)

Education is big business just like anything else & I actually don't think this lawsuit is egregious. If I sold you anything at all (a car, a horse, a work of art) based entirely on it's value down the road, which it turns out I cooked up, you would be well within your rights to sue me.

& just like any other marketplace, it is let the buyer beware. My nephew recently flunked out of a very prestigious university & frankly he should have seen it coming. Their profile in Barron's clearly states that while they are much easier to get in to than other comparable schools, less than 75% of the freshman class returns for a fourth semester (that's right, freshman year takes three semesters...hmmmm).

[cube]

Caveat emptor. I don't like the misrepresentation by these schools, but I saw the glut of lawyers coming years ago and feared that it would lead to an overly litigious society. Look where we are now.

[Linda]

The comments you have received are are interesting as the story itself.

Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com

[jackie]

ah ha..there is justice after all.