LATEST LAW SCHOOL RANKINGS-MANIPULATION GIMMICK: The Secret To Inflating Employment Rates? Only Survey Law Grads Who Are Employed. “A tipster emailed pretty much everybody in the legal blogosphere spilling the dirt on how his law school is trying to inflate employment statistics. He claims that the directive from his law school is not at all subtle. If you are employed, the school hounds you to complete a graduate employment survey. If you are unemployed, the school would like you to ignore it. That way, when the school hears from U.S. News or NALP or the ABA — or Law School Transparency, which just issued another request to law schools for more comprehensive employment data — law school officials can throw up their hands and say, ‘It’s so hard to get our graduates to fill out a jobs survey.'”