TLS law school profiles corrections policy
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TLS Law School Profiles Corrections Policy
Policy reviewed August 30, 2026.
TLS welcomes specific, evidence-supported corrections to law-school profiles. A correction request is evaluated under the same standards whether it comes from a school, student, alumnus, employee, advertiser, or other reader.
What to Submit
A useful request includes:
- the exact TLS page URL;
- the section, table row, or sentence at issue;
- the current text;
- the proposed correction;
- the reason it is inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated;
- a direct authoritative source URL or attached public record;
- the reporting period and publication date; and
- the requester's name, role, and contact information.
Correction contact: [TLS_CORRECTIONS_CONTACT_TO_BE_CONFIGURED]
Do not send confidential applicant, student, graduate, disciplinary, health, financial-aid, or employment records. TLS profiles rely on public aggregate and institutional information and will not publish personally identifying material merely to resolve a profile dispute.
Priority Levels
| Priority | Examples | Target handling |
|---|---|---|
| Urgent | Incorrect closure, teach-out, accreditation, identity, or application-status claim; material safety or legal issue | Triage promptly and consider a temporary editor's note while verifying |
| High | Material admissions, cost, scholarship, employment, or bar figure assigned to the wrong year or school | Verify against the direct source before the next ordinary publication batch |
| Standard | Current dean, deadline, program, link, formatting, or nonmaterial wording | Review in the normal corrections queue |
| Editorial disagreement | Objection to a supported interpretation or comparative conclusion | Reassess evidence and reasoning; no favorable treatment is guaranteed |
These are operational targets, not promises. Complex conflicts may require additional time.
Verification Process
- Log the request and preserve the submitted evidence.
- Confirm the identity of the TLS page and the data period at issue.
- Review the source hierarchy and locate the direct primary source when available.
- Determine whether the sources conflict or cover different cohorts, programs, dates, or definitions.
- Correct the page, add a clarification, retain the existing text, or mark the claim unresolved.
- Record a material change and the meaningful review date.
- Notify the requester when practical.
A school webpage does not automatically override an ABA disclosure for an ABA-defined field. Conversely, a current official page may be the best authority for a dean, deadline, address, or program. TLS uses the source appropriate to the exact claim.
Material Corrections
A material correction changes information that could affect an applicant's understanding of status, cost, admission, scholarship risk, employment, bar passage, or a substantive comparison. TLS should add a concise correction note when needed to prevent continued misunderstanding, especially if the original error was significant or widely distributed.
Routine link repairs, grammar changes, formatting, and updates that accurately replace a formerly current fact generally do not require a public correction note, but they remain in revision history.
What TLS Will Not Do
TLS will not:
- remove accurate, relevant, and fairly presented information solely because it is unfavorable;
- substitute promotional copy for editorial analysis;
- change a statistic without a matching cohort and source;
- conceal a closed, merged, teach-out, sanction, or accreditation history that remains material;
- create a positive link or ranking treatment in exchange for payment, access, or cooperation; or
- accept a requester's unsupported recollection as the sole authority for a material fact.
Appeals and Additional Evidence
A requester may submit a concise follow-up with new evidence or identify a definitional error. Repetition without new evidence does not require a new decision. Material unresolved conflicts may remain visibly disclosed.
