TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Jul 30, 2015

The National Association for Law Placement today released its annual employment figures for last year's law school graduates. The big news is that the overall employment rate rose for the first time since 2007 -- from 84.5 percent in 2013 to 86.7 percent in 2014. But some caution may be warranted. While the employment numbers were up, the number of students seeking jobs was down. The 2014 class was substantially smaller, by about 3,000 graduates, than the 2013 class, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports.