Top Law Schools

• Southern University Law Center had trouble reporting to the ABA, so does not yet have any data. [Updated.]
• The ABA format is different this year. We convinced the ABA to open up a bit about the school-funded jobs. Now, you can see what kind of credentials each school-funded job required. For example, you can see how many of the school-funded jobs were long-term, full-time bar passage required.
• Likewise with the "Education" category; the "Academic" category is now "Education"
• With the ABA data change, we can now know exactly how many school-funded jobs are in the Employment Score. However, we did not remove these. I will explain this decision in more detail later, but we will be adding a toggle button soon so you can toggle the inclusion on/off.

• These jobs:
  • require bar passage or are judicial clerkships; and
  • are for at least 35 hours per week and have an expected duration of at least one year.
  The national full-time, long-term legal rate is 56.2%.
  • At 66 law schools (33.0%), less than 50% of graduates had these legal jobs.
  • 26 schools (13.0%) had less than 40%
  • 11 schools (5.5%) had less than 33%
• 95 schools (47.5%) exceeded the national rate of 56.2%.
  • 50 schools (25.0%) had more than 66%
  • 20 schools (10.0%) had more than 75%
  • 6 schools (3.0%) had more than 90%
• The national full-time, long-term legal rate (less school-funded jobs) is 55.1%.
  • Excluding school-funded jobs mostly only helped schools at the top end.
  • Five of the six schools over 90% drop below that threshold; two of those five drop below 80%.

• A graduate counts as underemployed when he or she in a non-professional job or employed in a short-term or part-time job.
• A graduate counts as not employed when he or she is unemployed or pursuing an additional advanced degree.
• The national rate is 27.7%.
• 187 schools (93.5%) reported a rate greater than 10%.
  • 153 schools (76.5%) had more than 20%
  • 111 schools (56.0%) had more than 25%
  • 58 schools (29.0%) had more than 33%
  • 27 schools (13.6%) had more than 40%
  • 8 schools (4%) had more than 50%
  • 24 schools had more underemployed and non-employed graduates than graduates employed in long-term, full-time legal jobs.

• 12.2% of graduates were employed at large firms in full-time, long-term positions
  • Graduates seek these jobs in part because they’re the jobs that tend to pay the highest salaries.
  • Note that not all of these jobs are associate positions. An unknown number are paralegals, administrators, and staff attorneys.
• At only 51 schools (25.5%) were more than 10% in these jobs.
  • 27 schools (13.5%)had more than 20%
  • 14 schools (7.0%) had more than 33%
  • 8 (4.0%) schools had more than 50%

Ghost93 wrote:Nice work, as always.

Ghost93 wrote:Nice work.

Regulus wrote:

Ghost93 wrote:Nice work.

As always.

North wrote:

Regulus wrote:

Ghost93 wrote:Nice work.

As always.

Indiana University - Bloomington
69.5% Employed in IN

Indiana University - Indianapolis
32.4% Employed in IN

K Rock wrote:Is there a chance you accidentily switched the stats for the two Indiana schools? Historically IUB has placed more students out of state and IUI has place a lot more students in state, but this year those numbers seem switched.

Indiana University - Bloomington
69.5% Employed in IN

Indiana University - Indianapolis
32.4% Employed in IN

TheNextAmendment wrote:Thanks for your dedication and work!
LST might just make a big enough impact to discourage enough kids away from TTTT law schools to actually dig us out of the recession. ALL HAIL LST AND THE FUTURE JOB OPPORTUNITIES IT WILL CREATE.

North wrote:Bug: The Salary Response Score for the esteemed Charleston School of Lawl seems to be pulling from the wrong line of the spreadsheet. It says 'June 2013' where I imagine there should be a number.

North wrote:Bug: The Salary Response Score for the esteemed Charleston School of Lawl seems to be pulling from the wrong line of the spreadsheet. It says 'June 2013' where I imagine there should be a number.

ChampagnePapi wrote:

North wrote:Bug: The Salary Response Score for the esteemed Charleston School of Lawl seems to be pulling from the wrong line of the spreadsheet. It says 'June 2013' where I imagine there should be a number.

Looks like they all have that. Isn't the salary stuff from the NALP report, yet to be released?

ChampagnePapi wrote:Holy fuck USF lol

http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=sanfranciso