However, a state appeals panel criticised the school in yesterday’s ruling for being ‘less than candid’ with its statistics, reports the New York Law Journal.
The law suit, brought by a group of New York Law graduates, alleged that although the school suggested its statistics were based mainly on those who found full-time work as lawyers, in reality the numbers included those in part-time jobs or jobs not requiring a law degree.
Concealment
In making his ruling Justice Rolando Acosta wrote that there is ‘no question that the type of employment information published by defendant (and other law schools) during the relevant period likely left some consumers with an incomplete, if not false, impression of the schools' job placement success.’
Justice Acosta continued that the school could not be liable for fraudulent concealment ‘because plaintiffs have not alleged any special relationship or fiduciary obligation requiring a duty of full and complete disclosure from defendants to its prospective students.’
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