CLASS OF 2017 EMPLOYMENT REPORT: The Rankings
…And now, what you crave: law schools ranked by the percentage of their class of 2017 graduates in full-time, long-term, bar-passage-required jobs. PERCENT GRADUATES EMPLOYED FULL-TIME/LONG-TERM IN...
View ArticleState-Level Employment Projections: High Lawyer Replacement
Every two years the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes state-level employment projections on its affiliated Web site projectionscentral.com. The data from this site include estimates of the...
View ArticleOffice of Management and Budget: +$845 Billion in Direct Loans by 2028
Nearly every year in July the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) publishes its Mid-Session Review (MSR) of the federal budget, which includes the Federal Direct Loan Program, and projects its...
View Article2018: Total Applications Up, But Only for the Top Half
By October 2018, there were 37,052 enrollees at 200 ABA-accredited law schools not in Puerto Rico. This is up 1,290 (+7.9 percent) from 35,762 in October 2017. (Last year, the initial reporting had...
View Article2018: ABA Publishes Hot Tuition Garbage Instead of Usable Numbers [UPDATED]
It’s been two weeks since the ABA released its 509 information reports and accompanying spreadsheets. Lazy as I am I didn’t get to the tuition figures until last night, when to my astonishment I found...
View Article2018: 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...
View Article2019: 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,...
View Article2019: 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...
View Article2018: 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...
View ArticleLabor 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...
View Article2020: 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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