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The team behind Law School Transparency including the founder, podcast team and board of directors.

A FRESH START Much has been written about how law schools, NALP, and U.S. News calculate various metrics, especially the "employment rate." Much has also been written about rankings and their impact...

The LST Law School Reports suffer from a variety of limits and those using them need to be conscious of what the reports do and do not mean. Many of these problems...

This website uses a variety of data sources to produce the most comprehensive collection of post-graduation employment data ever compiled and published on a school-by-school basis. Depending on the year, we collected...

The ABA accreditation standards require that each law school publish cost of attendance (COA) data. However, there is no standard method of creating, organizing, or publishing the figures. Moreover, a school's estimated...

Prelaw students needing to borrow money to attend law school traditionally consider three types of loans: Direct Loans, Direct PLUS loans, and private loans. These loans differ on a number of terms...

INTRODUCTION TO LRAPS Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) are offered by some schools to help graduates with low incomes manage their debts. Traditionally, schools offer these programs only to graduates working legal...

While the electives for the first year of law school may vary somewhat from school to school, students at almost every law school are required to take the same core first year...

Unlike most undergraduate courses, many of your law school courses will be graded on a curve. Sometimes grades are assigned to a pre-determined distribution, e.g. 30% A's, 40% B's, and 30% C's...

ABA-approved schools share considerable similarities with one another when it comes to the basic model for delivering legal education. However, there are considerable differences in size, location, culture, incoming class numbers, and...

THE RANKINGS LEAD TO LESS-INFORMED DECISIONS As a tool for making application and enrollment decisions, the U.S. News rankings fail on a number of fronts. First, the rankings pay insufficient attention to...

WHAT IS THE BAR EXAM? In order to practice law in the United States — also called being "admitted to the bar" — you must obtain a law license from an individual...

WHAT IS THE ABA? The American Bar Association (ABA) is a trade organization for lawyers. It has many sections, centers, and divisions. Decision-making for the organization is concentrated in the Office of...

WHAT IS NALP? NALP, or the National Association for Law Placement, is an association of over 2,500 legal career professionals who advise law students, lawyers, law offices, and law schools in North...

“I’m excited to announce that LST is joining the Law School Admission Council to work together to empower students. LST will continue to help prelaw students make strategic choices about where to...

Since our founding in 2009, our web tools have gone through many iterations. With our first tool in 2010, our "data clearinghouse," we explained the shortcomings of law school employment and salary...

LST's popular podcast about law jobs, I Am The Law, is slated to run 15 new episodes throughout the end of 2020 and early 2021. The forthcoming episodes each feature a different...

Today, LST launched two websites with an array of tools for prelaw students and their advisors. The new LST Reports is the 5th generation version of the site and the PreLaw Platform...

As an advisor, you can access almost every page that a student can. The one exception is that you cannot join an advising group (even your own), although you may be an...

In an effort to level the law school admissions playing field, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), the maker of the LSAT, partnered with the nonprofit Khan Academy provide free LSAT prep...