Before the Raise to $180K, Salaries Were Already on the Up

How did U.S. law schools’ class of 2015 fare after graduation?

It’s all in a new report released on Wednesday from the National Association for Law Placement. The report analyzed the job placement profile of the 39,984 graduates in the class of 2015 — a figure that was down 7,000 from two years prior when it stood at 46,776 for the class of 2013.

James Leipold, executive director of NALP, wrote in his cover summary:

“The employment outcomes findings for members of the class of 2015 depict an entry-level employment market that is remarkably flat by almost every measure, and, with a few notable exceptions, ...