LSAC Statement Attacking Law School Transparency
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Law School Transparency, an advocacy organization for the interests of law school applicants and students, recently released a report entitled 2015 State of Legal Education. The report touches on many issues related to the current law school climate, but one central focus is on explaining about the effect of declining law school LSAT scores on law graduates’ prospects for passing the bar. The report attempted to draw attention to the fact that the declining quality of the law school applicant pool (as reflected by declining LSAT scores at many schools) is putting more law school graduates in jeopardy of failing the bar examination. The fact that this has been happening is not really controversial among those paying attention.
Imagine one’s surprise, therefore, when Daniel Bernstine, the president of the Law School Admissions Council (the organization responsible for the LSAT) emitted a bizarre statement attacking LST’s report. The statement called three factual claims contained in the report “demonstrably false” and “patently wrong.” In fact, however, the term “demonstrably false” would be more accurately attached to the LSAC’s press release than to LST’s relatively modest claims. Each of LST’s claims was either misrepresented by Bernstine or otherwise substantially accurate.
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