National Law Journal, The Hard Part of Law School Transparency: Getting Grads to Answer Surveys:

Transparency and accuracy in law school employment statistics is a hot topic right now, but some career services administrators believe an element is missing from the debate: how to ensure that recent graduates update schools on their employment status.

Groups like Law School Transparency and the American Bar Association have proposed new reporting systems that would provide more detail about where law grads are employed and how much they earn. But the data are only as good as the responses made to law schools’ employment queries. … Most law schools already struggle to fully account for the whereabouts of their recent graduates, and adding to the reporting requirements would create an especially heavy burden for small career services offices.