Thomas Jefferson School of Law is defending itself in a San Diego courtroom against fraud claims brought by Anna Alaburda, a 2008 graduate who couldn’t find a full-time law job after graduation. The culprit, she alleges? The school’s overly rosy job statistics.
Claiming she was duped into enrolling, Alaburda was the first of dozens of law school alumni around the country who sued their alma maters in 2011 and 2012 for using deceptive graduate employment numbers. Most of those cases, filed against 15 schools in Illinois, New York, Michigan, Florida and California, were dismissed, save one outstanding against Widener University Delaware Law School. Judges found a lack of specific evidence that the schools had lied and said unhappy alumni should have done more research.
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