{"id":316,"date":"2010-08-09T15:17:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T21:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=316"},"modified":"2010-08-09T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T21:19:12","slug":"the-market-for-j-d-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2010\/08\/09\/the-market-for-j-d-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Market for J.D.s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/08\/09\/law\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hungry for Jobs&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(Inside Higher Ed\u00a0), Scott Jaschik notes a rash of blogs with comments by recent graduates about the dismal job market for recent J.D.s\u2013and their discontent with law schools.\u00a0 This on the heels of the release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nalp.org\/09salpressrel\" target=\"_blank\">NALP Class of 2009 report<\/a>, which shows an overall employment rate of 88.3% and the usual bi-modal distribution of starting salaries:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2009.Salaries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-318\" title=\"2009.Salaries\" src=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2009.Salaries-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2009.Salaries-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2009.Salaries.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to data drawn from the <em>Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools 2011,<\/em> the distribution of the percent of graduates reported by law schools as employed varies from 66% to 100%:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2009EmploymentDistribution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-320\" title=\"2009EmploymentDistribution\" src=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2009EmploymentDistribution-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2009EmploymentDistribution-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2009EmploymentDistribution.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comments reported by Jaschik are particularly critical of employment rates at lower-tier law schools.\u00a0 As the following chart shows, the percent employed generally declines as a school&#8217;s LSAT median declines.\u00a0 That said, there is still wide variation, in both the top- and the bottom half of law schools by median LSAT ( the median of median LSATs is 157).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/EmploymentByLSAT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-315\" title=\"Percent Employment for Law Schools, 2008-2009 Graduates\" src=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/EmploymentByLSAT-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/EmploymentByLSAT-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/EmploymentByLSAT.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>posted by Gary Rosin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his article &#8220;Hungry for Jobs&#8221;\u00a0(Inside Higher Ed\u00a0), Scott Jaschik notes a rash of blogs with comments by recent graduates about the dismal job market for recent J.D.s\u2013and their discontent with law schools.\u00a0 This on the heels of the release of the NALP Class of 2009 report, which shows an overall employment rate of 88.3% 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