I’ll admit to being a skeptic when it comes to any law school’s employment numbers. As far as I can tell, law is the only profession which requires its schools to publish such numbers, and the ABA requires it because of scandals associated with law schools publishing incorrect-i.e. inflated-job statistics.
Law schools have also learned to game the statistics with the new requirements. In GULC’s case, the “long term” school funded jobs last just one year(the minimum ABA requirement); these jobs also materialized after the ABA decided that it was OK to include school funded jobs in the jobs statistics(for several years the ABA would not allow it).
In light of the expense and extremely competitive job market, attending law school should be viewed as a business decision, undertaken only if the cost/benefit analysis shows a clear long term benefit.