It was a Good Week for …
Transparency, after the ABA made data public that shows details on individual law school employment statistics. The data shows that 70.6 percent of all 2010 graudates were employed in long-term jobs nine months after graduation, and another 12.1 percent had short-term jobs. The schools with the highest percent of grads in permanent full-time jobs were Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, Cornell and Harvard (all above 94 percent).
It was a Bad week for …
Fluffing up your employment numbers, after the ABA data showed that 26 law schools employed at least 10 percent of their graduating class, including Yale. CUNY led all schools by employing 23.5 percent of their class, followed by McGeorge School of Law at 20.8 percent; San Francisco (19.2%), Yeshiva (18.2%) and Chapman University (17.4%). Of the 43 graduated employed from Golden Gate, 20 were working for the school.
