TestMasters Sued By LSAC
If you’ve been following the news, you’ve probably heard about the TestMasters-LSAC lawsuit. Apparently, TestMasters has been sued by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), the non-profit company that produces the LSAT, for breach of contract for unpaid use of LSAT questions. According to the court papers, the owner of TestMasters failed to account and pay in a timely manner for his use of questions and now owes almost one million dollars in fees. The owner has tried to work out a payment plan with LSAC, but the terms seems to be far from what LSAC is willing to accept.
Since LSAC administers exams to assess one’s ability to do well in law school, it should come as no surprise that they are careful about details! All LSAT test prep companies must make an agreement with LSAC to use its questions. Interestingly, the questions used in PrepTests from many years ago cost less than more current ones. That’s why some companies fill their books with old tests (and not to toot our own horn too much, but we use only very current exams). Anyway, here at Atlas we are extremely careful to account and pay for every use of official LSAT questions. Here’s one small example: our books and courses use real LSAT questions, but if you look at the chapters you can download from our site //www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/lsat-books.cfm, you’ll notice that we swap out the real questions for ones we’ve written.
I want to assure our students that we’re very transparent and straightforward with LSAC. Now get back to work!