As a recent graduate from Golden Gate University School of Law, I can tell you that we have one of strictest curves of all American Bar Association schools. As a student who went through their entire academic career with a 4.0 average, I have to enter an already competitive field in an extremely grim economic climate with a 2.8 graduate school average.
Golden Gate was not changing their policy to make it easier for their graduates to get jobs but rather to conform to the existing curve policies of the schools in the area like Berkeley and Stanford. This is not "inflation" as the article ineptly implies but rather a proper reflection of the grade actually deserved by the student.