Law School Transparency Still Fighting After a Decade (1)

When Kyle McEntee enrolled at Vanderbilt Law, he was not planning to build a career questioning the very system he was joining.

He expected to get a job at a law firm or with the government that paid the bills and his student loans. But all that changed when he and Vanderbilt classmate Patrick Lynch began looking out of curiosity at their school’s graduate job outcomes, and comparing them to those at other schools.

Some schools, they discovered, were making rosy but misleading claims like “95 percent of graduates employed.” It turned out those schools were inflating how many graduates ...