Thursday, August 11, 2011
More on Lawsuits Against Cooley, NYLS Over Fraudulent Placement Data
Following up on yesterday's post, Class Action Lawsuits Filed Against Cooley, NYLS Over Fraudulent Placement Data:
- ABA Journal, Grads Sue NYLS and Cooley Law, Saying They Inflated Job and Salary Stats
- Above the Law, Cooley Law Gets Served Some of Its Own Medicine (NYLS Is Tardy to the Party)
- Bloomberg, New York Law School Sued by Students Over Claims About Graduates’ Success
- Chronicle of Higher Education, In Lawsuits, Graduates of 2 Law Schools Accuse Their Alma Maters of Inflating Employment Data
- Detroit Free Press, Cooley Law School Sued for Alleged Misleading Employment Statistics
- Fox News, Graduates Sue New York Law School Claiming 'Systemic, Ongoing Fraud'
- Inside Higher Ed, Suing Over Jobs
- Law Librarian Blog, Class Action Lawsuits Filed Against Thomas Cooley and NYLS Yesterday
- Law School Transparency, Class Actions as a Tool of Social Change
- National Law Journal, New York Law School, Thomas Cooley Accused of Job Statistics Fraud
- New York Post, New York Law School Students: We Were Jobbed
- Reuters, Graduates Accuse Law Schools of Scamming Students
- Wall Street Journal, Law Grads Sue Over Tuition
- WSJ Law Blog, Law Grads Sue Alma Maters For Millions In Tuition Refunds
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- Grad Files $50m Class Action v. Law School for Misrepresenting Placement Data (May 27, 2011)
- Website of Class Action Lawsuit v. Law School (June 8, 2011)
- Law School Sues Law Firm and Bloggers for Criticizing its Placement Data (July 15, 2011)
- Class Actions Filed Against Cooley, NYLS Over Fraudulent Placement Data (Aug. 11, 2011)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2011/08/more-on.html
Comments
Does New York Law School really deserve to be lumped in with the other school sued here as the Kurzon firm has done here? Looking at Prof. Seto's stats of big law partners, NYLS comes in at #62 nationally, while the other school mentioned is close to the bottom:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2011/08/seto-where.html
Certainly, there are limits to Prof. Seto's statistics -- primarily not accounting for size -- but it is not put out by the schools themselves.
Posted by: JD | Aug 11, 2011 8:21:57 AM
Yes they do. Every fraud has some grain of truth to it, that's why it works.
Posted by: anon | Aug 11, 2011 11:04:34 PM