Ethics

Paul Caron shows that sixteen law schools could have bettered their USN&WR stats if they had declined to report employment statistics.  The default value assigned by the magazine would have been better than the actual stats.

Should law schools report their stats based on the spirit and purpose of the system, or view it like a game where tactical cleverness is permitted, or view the reporting as a bad man would view the law?  I've said here that one of the most important forms of teaching legal ethics in law schools is the manner in which schools do, or do not, game the system and cook the numbers.  So I can't agree that the schools committed malpractice.