ABA offers law school consumer data in easy-to-use format
Information reported by American Bar Association-approved law schools is now publicly available at no charge in online spreadsheets that enable easy searching, sorting, school-by-school comparisons and analysis, the ABA’s law school accrediting body announced recently. The spreadsheets, developed by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, will improve the accessibility of information for prospective law students, pre-law advisors, media outlets and others who study and write about legal education.
Standard 509 of the ABA’s Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools requires law schools each year to disclose data in 11 categories, covering admissions, tuition and living costs, financial aid, class and faculty demographics, employment outcomes, bar passage and other areas. Schools are required to post their Standard 509 information reports on their websites. The ABA also posts each school’s report on the website of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Previously, the section only posted school-by-school spreadsheets on employment outcomes data.
The new spreadsheets cover the years 2011 to 2014. The section plans to make additional years’ data available in Excel as time and staffing permit.
The spreadsheets, explanatory information and the ABA’s database of Standard 509 reports are available at www.abarequireddisclosures.org.
Legal Aid and Defender to hold annual charity golf outing June 19
Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc. (LAD) will hold its 17th annual charity golf outing on Friday, June 19 at TPC Michigan, One Nicklaus Drive, Dearborn.
The outing is open to the public. Registration is at 7:30 a.m., the shotgun start at 8:30. Donations are $125 for single players and $500 for foursomes. They include 18 holes of golf, continental breakfast, lunch, dinner and team photos.
A variety of sponsorship and underwriting opportunities are available. Payments must be received no later than Friday, June 5.
For reservations or further information, contact Bedelia Brown at 313-967-5619 or bbrown@ladadetroit.org. Net proceeds from the outing will help LAD provide legal services to low-income residents in metropolitan Detroit.
Guilty plea set next week in case of bad spinal surgeries
DETROIT (AP) — A guilty plea is in the works for a Detroit-area doctor accused of hurting patients and cheating insurers through spinal surgeries that weren’t performed as promised.
Federal Judge Paul Borman has set a plea hearing for this Friday.
Prosecutors have used the word “butcher” to describe the medical practice of Dr. Aria Sabit. The indictment against him says patients didn’t know about faulty back surgeries until they had another doctor examine them.
Sabit has pleaded not guilty to fraud charges. The Oakland County man surrendered his California medical license last summer after similar malpractice allegations. He has been in custody since his arrest in November.
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