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Law School Transparency is a nonprofit advocacy organization. LST was founded by Vanderbilt Law School graduates Kyle McEntee and Patrick Lynch. LST describes its mission as "to make entry to the legal profession more transparent, affordable, and fair."〔(LST Mission ), Law School Transparency.〕 == History == Law School Transparency was founded in July 2009 by two law students at Vanderbilt University Law School, Kyle McEntee and Patrick J. Lynch. When Lynch obtained a job practicing environmental law with a nongovernmental organization in South America, he reduced his involvement in LST.〔Rachel M. Zahorsky, (Legal Rebels: Kyle McEntee Challenges Law Schools to Come Clean ), September 19, 2012〕 Derek Tokaz, a graduate of NYU Law school, also works on several LST projects.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Team )〕 From the outset, one of the greatest challenges LST faced was securing funding and resources.〔 Their goal was to improve legal education and the legal profession through increased access to high-quality post-graduation job outcome information. The duo was motivated by Vanderbilt's comprehensive disclosure of job outcomes in early 2008. McEntee and several of his classmates decided to attend Vanderbilt in fall 2008 in part due to the information revealed by the law school.〔(LST's Origins ), Law School Transparency.〕 In order to increase access to better information, McEntee and Lynch first identified two key problems with law school disclosure practices in a white paper originally published in April 2010.〔Kyle P. McEntee and Patrick J. Lynch, (A Way Forward: Transparency at American Law Schools ), SSRN, April 10, 2010.〕〔Karen Sloan, (''Law Students Push Schools for Better Employment Numbers'' ), National Law Journal, April 21, 2010.〕 An updated version of the white paper was published by Pace Law Review two years later. First, law schools provided misleading and incomplete employment information that took advantage of how students understand law schools and the legal profession.〔John Eligon, (''Jobs Data More Vital to Her Than Food'' ), The New York Times, August 27, 2010.〕〔David Segal, (''For 2nd Year, a Sharp Drop in Law School Entrance Tests'' ), The New York Times, March 20, 2012.〕 For example, law schools advertised basic employment rates that included any job in the numerator, whether short-term or long-term, part-time or full-time, legal or non-legal. Schools even counted volunteer jobs funded by the law school, leading almost every school to report employment rates over 90%. In addition, law schools reported deceptively high starting salaries. Notably, law schools reported the median salary for a small percentage of the class without disclosing the response rate or sampling bias.〔Amanda Becker, (''Critics say law schools don't give students realistic career expectations'' ), The Washington Post, February 18, 2011.〕 Second, law schools did not share basic information they possessed that would have helped students better understand school offerings and career paths. The result was an information asymmetry favoring law schools that enabled law schools to raise tuition prices indiscriminately.〔Kyle P. McEntee and Patrick J. Lynch, ''A Way Forward: Transparency at American Law Schools'', Pace Law Review (2012), available at (SSRN ).〕 To solve these problems, LST asked law schools to voluntarily disclose basic employment information about recent graduates.〔Debra Cassens Weiss, (''New Nonprofit Asks Law Schools for Detailed Salary, Job Information'' ), ABA Journal, July 13, 2010.〕 Knowing that law schools would decline initially, McEntee and Lynch were actually targeting the American Bar Association's accreditation standards. By 2012, LST succeeded in reforming the ABA standards to better protect students and to hold law schools accountable, and in changing attitudes about how law schools interact with prospective students.〔David Yellen, (''Advancing Transparency in Law School Employment Data: The ABA's New Standard 509'' ), The Bar Examiner, December 2012.〕 David Lat contended that "Most observers are content just to complain about law schools not being forthcoming enough about employment information."〔David Lat & Elie Mystal, (''Increasing Transparency in Employment Reporting by Law Schools: What Is to Be Done?'' ), Above the Law, April 21, 2010.〕 Elie Mystal added that "McEntee and Lynch are trying to fill a void left open by organizations with regulatory power (the ABA), organizations with public power (U.S. News), and organizations with no power (NALP)."〔 Writing for American Lawyer Media's The Careerist, Vivia Chen observed that "It's not easy getting the attention of a mammoth organization like ABA, but LST did it. It deserves our kudos."〔Vivia Chen, (''Law School Transparency Gets R-E-S-P-E-C-T'' ), The Careerist, June 14, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Law School Transparency」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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