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Employment rates for 2023 law school grads reach decade high

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For the class of 2023, the aggregated school data shows that 30,160 graduates, or 85.6% of the 2023 graduates of the 195 ABA-approved law schools, were employed in full-time, long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D. Advantage jobs roughly 10 months after graduation.

That compares to 30,512 or 84.6% of the graduates reporting similar full-time, long-term jobs in the previous year.

“The percentage of recent law school graduates employed in full-time, long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D. Advantage jobs has reached its highest level in the past decade,” said Bill Adams, managing director of ABA accreditation and legal education.

Adams said that beginning with the Class of 2019, the percentage rose above 80% and has been steadily rising, but for a slight dip to 77.4% for the Class of 2020.

“This dip was likely due to the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the legal market, cancelations and delays to bar admission exam administrations and an approximately 1.4% increase in the size of the graduating class that year,” he said.

Employment data for the graduating law class of 2023, as reported to the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar by ABA-approved law schools accepting new J.D. students, is publicly available.

An online table on the ABA website provides select national outcomes and side-by-side comparisons for the classes of 2022 and 2023. Further reports on employment outcomes, including links to individual school outcomes and spreadsheets aggregating those reports, are available on the ABA Required Disclosures page of the section’s website.

Schools can make corrections to their individual school outcomes for the Class of 2023 through mid-June. These corrections will be reflected in the Employment Summary Reports that are required to be posted publicly on their websites, as well as on the ABA Required Disclosures page.

Under Interpretation 509-2 of Standard 509, law schools are permitted to publicize additional employment outcome data as long as the information complies with Standard 509(a), which requires that all information that a law school reports, publicizes or distributes shall be complete, accurate and not misleading to a reasonable law school student or applicant.

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