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TITCRbanjo wrote:That 78.8% figure includes full-time, long-term, JD-required jobs. It doesn't include the many unicorn jobs that YLS students routinely choose over traditional legal work.
You can read the school's take here: http://www.law.yale.edu/studentlife/cdo ... usnews.htm
This. The LST employment algorithm accurately assesses the employment opportunities for all of the law schools listed except Yale. In other words, Yale is above LST.jbagelboy wrote:LST includes federal clerkships, which I would remind you are one year or very occasionally 2 year commitments. It also includes those who start immediately with their firm, as a government attorney (e.g., DOJ or state AG/PD), or at a legal public interest organization full time.
It does not include some "short term" non-school funded legal fellowships, those who return immediately to another graduate program, journalism fellowships, jd-preferred business roles, think tanks, political staffers and policy analysts, and some other state or federal gov't positions that do not require the bar. Yale's generous loan repayment provides for non-legal in addition to legal positions, which definitely helps students explore these kinds of opportunities in other sectors.
And, believe it or not, there are even at Yale a handful of students who can't find the job they want when they graduate and show up as unemployed on ABA. But I really wouldn't worry about that.
This is pretty much it.jbagelboy wrote:LST includes federal clerkships, which I would remind you are one year or very occasionally 2 year commitments. It also includes those who start immediately with their firm, as a government attorney (e.g., DOJ or state AG/PD), or at a legal public interest organization full time.
It does not include some "short term" non-school funded legal fellowships, those who return immediately to another graduate program, journalism fellowships, jd-preferred business roles, think tanks, political staffers and policy analysts, and some other state or federal gov't positions that do not require the bar. Yale's generous loan repayment provides for non-legal in addition to legal positions, which definitely helps students explore these kinds of opportunities in other sectors.
And, believe it or not, there are even at Yale a handful of students who can't find the job they want when they graduate and show up as unemployed on ABA. But I really wouldn't worry about that.