How bad is the legal job market for new lawyers?

Lawyers beginning their legal careers in Big Law today earn more, specialize earlier and benefit from technology that affords them flexibility. I've spent 24 years working with students, alumni and employers. read more

These rates include graduates with long-term, full-time jobs as a lawyer 10 months after graduation, but not jobs funded by the law school. This figure has improved for the last four years. In 2011, the job market bottomed out with just 53.8 percent of 2011 graduates taking long-term, full-time legal jobs. Since then, the legal job rate has crept up slowly by an average of 1.35 percent per year. read more

Last Thursday, May 21, 2015, officially marked one year (ONE YEAR!) since I graduated from New York Law School. That experience was single-handedly read more