Law School Transparency (LST) is a nonprofit consumer advocacy and education organization concerning the legal profession in the United States.

[2] When Lynch obtained a job practicing environmental law with a nongovernmental organization in South America, he reduced his involvement in LST.

[5] In order to increase access to better information, McEntee and Lynch first identified two key problems with law school disclosure practices in a white paper originally published in April 2010.

[8][9] For example, law schools advertised basic employment rates that included any job in the numerator, whether short-term or long-term, part-time or full-time, legal or non-legal.

Notably, law schools reported the median salary for a small percentage of the class without disclosing the response rate or sampling bias.

[11] To solve these problems, LST asked law schools to voluntarily disclose basic employment information about recent graduates.

[12] Knowing that law schools would decline initially, McEntee and Lynch were actually targeting the American Bar Association's accreditation standards.

"[14] Writing for American Lawyer Media's The Careerist, Vivia Chen observed that "It's not easy getting the attention of a mammoth organization like ABA, but LST did it.

"[15] This web tool helps students make smart application and enrollment choices using admissions, employment, and cost information.