2018: Full-Time Private Law-School Tuition Up 3.1 Percent
Despite arbitrary data meddling by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and significant misreporting by law schools, I will estimate changes in annual (as in what people care...
View Article2017: Full-Time Law Students Paying Full Tuition *Rises* By 0.4 Percentage...
Discussions of law-school costs are incomplete if they do not account for discounts some students receive, usually merit scholarships paid for by their full-tuition-paying classmates. To analyze the...
View ArticleW&S Lawyer Employment Rises in 2018, Incomes Flat
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) usually completes its updates of its many measures of occupational employment for the previous year by April. Data for 2018 are now available, allowing a...
View ArticleCLASS OF 2018 EMPLOYMENT REPORT: About the Same
Good morning, folks! Law-school-employment data are in, and before there’s a revision, this post will depict what they show. As with last year, I’m going to start with the headline information and save...
View ArticleLabor Dept.: 50,100 New Lawyer Jobs by 2028, Turnover of 27 Percent
On September 4, 2019, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its employment projections for the next cycle, 2018-2028. For 2018, the BLS’s Employment Projections program (EP program) estimates...
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2019: Law School Applications Fall 1 Percent, Enrollments Flat
By October 2019, there were 36,983 enrollees from the applicant pool at 197 ABA-accredited law schools not in Puerto Rico. This is down 67 (-0.2 percent) from 37,050 in October 2018. Three law schools,...
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2019: Full-Time Private Law School Tuition Up 1.5 Percent, ABA Excludes Fees
Full-time tuition at private ABA-accredited law schools rose 1.5 percent before adjusting for inflation, according to my analysis of (mainly) data released by the ABA in December. I focus on private...
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2018: Full-Time Law Students Paying Full Tuition Fall by 2.2 Percentage Points
Discussions of law-school costs are incomplete if they do not account for discounts some students receive, usually merit scholarships paid for by their full-tuition-paying classmates. To analyze the...
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Labor Dept.: 32,300 New Lawyer Jobs by 2029, Turnover of 24 Percent
On September 1, 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its employment projections for the next cycle, 2019-2029. For 2019, the BLS’s Employment Projections program (EP program) estimates...
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2020: Applications and Enrollments Flat
By October 2020, there were 36,802 enrollees from the applicant pool at 194 ABA-accredited law schools not in Puerto Rico. This is down 173 (-0.5 percent) from 36,975 in October 2019. La Verne, Thomas...
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