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After a mandatory arbitration provision and nondisclosure agreement in a Munger, Tolles & Olson summer associate employment contract emerged on Twitter nearly two months ago, law students from some of the nation's top law schools are now taking action.

From the University of California, Berkeley, to the Georgetown University Law Center, students have penned letters calling on law school administrators to bar firms with these agreements from using campus facilities to recruit new summer associates.

As a result, Yale Law School, along with Columbia and Cornell law schools and 11 other top law schools, announced Monday that it will now require law firms that interview on campus to complete a survey and openly disclose whether they will require summer associates to sign arbitration provisions and other related nondisclosure agreements.

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“At law schools, we don't talk about what people's individual contracts look like,” said Molly Coleman, a first-year Harvard Law School student who played a role in organizing the campaign. “There's the culture of secrecy [and] you're told you're not allowed to share your contract with anybody.”