We have yet to receive national salary data for the Class of 2010. We can, however, discuss the number of students and the corresponding percentage of students in the KU Law Class of 2010 reporting salaries for jobs requiring bar passage and JD-preferred jobs. Job Type # Reporting Salary % of Employed Reporting Salary Median Mean 25th percentile 75th percentile …
National employment numbers for the Class of 2010
Last week, the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) issued a press release detailing general findings from employment information submitted by 192 U.S. law schools for the Class of 2010. Four key national observations: The overall employment rate of the Class of 2010 nine months after graduation was 87.6 percent, the lowest since 1996. NALP calculates this employment rate based …
Jobs in and out of the law
Back on March 4 and March 18, I wrote in part about KU Law’s “bar passage required” employment statistics. As an update, I thought it would be useful to also delve into KU Law and national statistics for other employment categories. While most law students enroll with the goal of practicing law, by graduation some have decided to pursue less …
Compelling ‘accomplishment stories’ key to successful job interview
As spring semester finals wrap up, the majority of our 1Ls are preparing for clerkships with law firms, externships with state government agencies and nonprofits, clinical experiences such as the Judicial Clerkship Clinic, and summer classes. Last year, 80 percent of 1Ls reported summer employment and/or enrollment in summer school, a law school clinic or a study abroad program, and …
Report gauges frequency, value of law school experiential learning opportunities
A report about law school experiential learning was released last week by the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) and the NALP Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to research about legal careers. The 2010 Survey of Law School Experiential Learning asked practicing lawyers about the usefulness of their law school experiential learning opportunities. The survey respondents were exclusively associates in private …
Salary transparency
In the April 2011 National Association for Law Placement Bulletin, NALP Executive Director Jim Leipold discusses the push for more transparency in the reporting of legal employment data for recent law school graduates. I found the following statements about salary data to be the most interesting: Of all the placement statistics, salary data is of course the most problematic in …