The American Bar Association won't add a second graduate employment reporting date for law schools this year, despite pleas from law deans who say delayed bar exam results will depress their numbers.

Bill Adams, the ABA's managing director of accreditation and legal education, said that any jobs numbers reported by law schools in June—the second collection date proposed by the deans—would come too late to inform the fall's incoming law students. Moreover, collecting and auditing jobs data twice in the span of four months would be too onerous for both the ABA and law school career services offices, he said during the Feb. 19 meeting of the ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar.