The New York Law Journal reports today:
The post-graduation employment rate for the 2009 law school class fell to the lowest rate since the mid-1990s, with only 88.3 percent nationally finding a job, according to the National Association for Law Placement.
The decline marked the second year in a row that the number of jobs fell. And while there are more graduates working than many expected, a good portion of their jobs are part-time, temporary or do not require a law degree, masking the weaknesses in the job market, said James Leipold, the executive director of NALP, which released a report yesterday.
"People can't graduate with this much law school debt and nine months after graduation not be working," he said.
The study collected information on employment nine months after graduation from 192 law schools on more than 40,000 graduates, nearly 93 percent of the class of 2009.
The basic facts are in the NALP report HERE
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