Guy with $170k in law school loans is suing school. Drives Uber full time

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Clark Moffatt, 35, says he dreamed of a career in criminal justice when he graduated from San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2006.

But since graduating, he says he's never held a job in the legal profession, or earned more than $25,000 a year. He lives in a rented mobile home and receives food stamps to provide for his wife and two children, he says.

"It's both frustrating and, to a degree, humiliating," Moffatt told Business Insider in a recent phone interview.

Moffatt is one of 12 former TJSL students now suing the law school, which they claim intentionally inflated postgraduation employment figures and salaries in order to lure applicants.

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Moffatt graduated from the University of North Texas in 2003. In college, he says, he excelled academically, making the dean's list every year and graduating with a 4.0 GPA. He was a member of the National Criminal Justice Honor Society and graduated with a bachelor's in degree criminal justice.

"I could have had pretty much any criminal-justice profession that I wanted," he said.

Instead of seeking work right away, he sought law schools, hoping to advance his education. Moffatt researched schools, looking at the "US News & World Report" and other sources that could give him information about law programs. He was drawn to TJSL, he said, because it recorded very high graduation rates and postgraduation employment statistics.

But he wasn't yet sold. He was also considering attending his undergraduate alma mater as well as Baylor Law School.
TJSL set itself apart by responding to his inquiries quickly, contacting Moffatt to let him know they'd love to have him, he said. That, in addition to the sunny San Diego, California, campus and the good job statistics the school advertised, convinced him that he should attend.
He graduated in May 2006 and immediately started studying for the California bar exam, he said. He failed the bar despite studying, and he took a managerial job at GameStop, a retail video-game store. Though concerned with passing the bar, Moffatt said, he had bigger issues to worry about — like ballooning student-loan debt. He needed a job, any job, to start to pay his bills.

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