ABA report: 2022 law graduates entered a strong employment market
REUTERS — The law school class of 2022 graduated into a strong entry-level hiring market, landing legal jobs at a higher rate than their predecessors in 2021 and 2019—the last cohort before COVID-19 temporarily pushed down new lawyer hiring. Nearly 78% of last year’s new juris doctors found jobs that require bar passage within 10…
Read More about ABA report: 2022 law graduates entered a strong employment marketBloomberg Law highlights law schools’ efforts to create tech savvy graduates
BLOOMBERG LAW — Technology has become an integral part of society, and law schools are realizing that if they want to produce practice-ready attorneys and legal professionals in the 21st century, they must incorporate technology into their learning environment. Through tech-focused certificate programs, technology labs, tournaments, and interdisciplinary instruction and collaboration, some law schools today…
Read More about Bloomberg Law highlights law schools’ efforts to create tech savvy graduatesAdvice for recent law graduates starting their careers
BLOOMBERG LAW — Baker McKenzie’s Jennifer Trock and Orfeh Vahabzadeh share valuable career-building tips for first-year associates. They recommend networking with internal and external experts, and joining groups to make contacts, share knowledge, and build a reputation.
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RAPPLER — Last Sunday, more than 9,000 examinees completed the 2022 Bar Examinations. They now belong to generations of future lawyers who took the challenge of not only taking what has been considered to be “the most grueling licensure exam in the country,” but also that important and necessary step to becoming bonafide agents of…
Read More about A look at how clinical experience helps law graduates on the bar examUniversity of Utah Law celebrates graduates’ performance on the Utah Bar Exam
S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law is celebrating a strong performance from recent graduates on the July 2022 Utah Bar Exam. An impressive 96% of recent Utah Law grads passed the Utah Bar Exam on their first try. This puts Utah Law comfortably above the state average of…
Read More about University of Utah Law celebrates graduates’ performance on the Utah Bar ExamNALP Study: Black, Native American, and Native Hawaiian law school graduates face disparities in employment outcomes
REUTERS — Two-thirds of Black students who graduated law school last year landed jobs within 10 months that required passing the bar exam, compared to 81% of white law grads, according to new data from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP).
Read More about NALP Study: Black, Native American, and Native Hawaiian law school graduates face disparities in employment outcomesNotre Dame Law LLM students Angella Ngwalo and Angélica Suárez Torres earn international clerkships
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME THE LAW SCHOOL — Two recent graduates of the Notre Dame Law School LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law are serving as clerks at influential international courts in Africa and Latin America.
Read More about Notre Dame Law LLM students Angella Ngwalo and Angélica Suárez Torres earn international clerkshipsRegent Law celebrates graduates’ performance on the Virginia Bar Exam
REGENT UNIVERSITY — Regent Law is celebrating one of its strongest ever performances on the Virginia bar exam. Regent’s overall pass rate on the July bar was the third highest in Virginia—an achievement that places the University ahead of the law programs at Washington & Lee University, George Mason University, the University of Richmond, Appalachian School of…
Read More about Regent Law celebrates graduates’ performance on the Virginia Bar ExamDuquesne Law celebrates bar exam results of recent graduates
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY — Graduates of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University achieved an impressive 82.3% first-time taker pass rate on the July 2022 Pennsylvania bar exam. The statewide first-time average pass rate was 75.16%.
Read More about Duquesne Law celebrates bar exam results of recent graduatesPodcast: Forecasting employment outcomes for future law graduates
LEGAL TALK NETWORK — The overall employment outcomes for 2007 and 2021 law school graduates were both 91.9%. And while that sounds like a good thing, it could be a warning.
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