A law graduate who came top of her class has lost a lawsuit against her former school after taking it to court over her failure to find a job in almost a decade.
Anna Alaburda, 37, graduated from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, in San Diego, with flying colors nearly 10 years ago but has so far been unable to score a full-time job practicing law.
She sued the school for $125,000 in damages, claiming she was lured into paying her tuition by inflated employment statistics.
Ms Alaburda's lawsuit was yesterday dismissed by a jury in California.

After she graduated, Ms Alaburda went on to pass the state bar exam and set out to use the law degree that cost her about $150,000, according to The New York Times.
She was offered a job after she graduated with a law firm that was willing to give her a $60,000 salary, but she turned it down.
The former law student said she received only the one job offer, which was less favorable than non-law-related jobs that were available, even after she sent her resume to more than 150 law firms.

Plenty of law students struggle to find work after graduating, but she was the first graduate to sue a law school after finding herself unemployable in her field.
She claimed Thomas Jefferson School of Law inflated its employment data for its graduates to encourage students to enroll.
Ms Alaburda filed the lawsuit in 2011, arguing that she would not have enrolled at Thomas Jefferson if she had known the law school's statistics were, in her opinion, misleading.

Ms Alaburda, who has debt of about $170,000, has worked in various part-time positions, mostly temporary jobs reviewing documents for law firms since graduating.
And she may have to continue doing so after the jury rejected her lawsuit with a 9-3 majority.
Michael Sullivan, an attorney for the law school, acknowledged 'isolated mistakes' and 'clerical errors' in data collection but said there was no evidence that the school lied.
He said the verdict set no precedent but may send a signal to other students who sue.
'Having an opportunity where it's fully litigated, and depositions and documents examined, to see the hype, the chatter about that did not prove to be the truth, as found by a jury, I think that's a helpful message,' Sullivan said after the verdict....

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what would Nigerian graduates now do?



report the Hague?