TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 22, 2022

Employment data released this week from the American Bar Association shows that legal employment for new law school graduates rebounded in 2021 from a 2020 pandemic slump, Reuters reports. Reporters crunched the ABA's numbers to find out which law schools had the most graduates in full-time, long-term jobs that require bar passage. Leading the pack was Columbia Law, with almost 96% of grads landing full-time jobs, followed by the University of Chicago and Duke, both at 94%, University of Georgia School of Law at 92.6% and Vanderbilt University Law School at 91%. The data also shows that 76% of 2021’s new lawyers found jobs within 10 months of leaving campus — up from 72% among the class of 2020.