National salaries for the KU Law Class of 2010

In our last posting, we shared salary information for the KU Law Class of 2010. At that time, national salary statistics for the Class of 2010 were not available. They have since come in, and the data confirms our past observation that national salary statistics are often unreliable because of low reporting percentages. Bar passage required jobs For instance, 108 …

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 …

Class of 2010 Employment Report

For each graduating class, KU Law measures employment at graduation and nine months after graduation. Each February, every law school in the country submits employment data for its most recent graduating class to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP). Each June, law schools receive a detailed report from NALP of national and school-specific employment and salary trends. Class of …