Entry-Level Legal Job Market Shrank in 2017

The American Bar Association released its employment data for the 2017 law school graduating class April 20, and there’s both good and bad news.

The good news is that the percentage of graduates who found jobs requiring bar passage or offer an advantage to J.D. holders has gone up. Within roughly 10 months after graduating, 75.3 percent of 2017 graduates found such jobs. In 2016, only 72.6 percent of graduates found similar full-time work.

The bad news is that those numbers are higher because the 2017 graduating class was six percent smaller than the year before: 34,432 students graduated from ...