After several years of consistent and regular improvement in legal employment outcomes for recent graduating classes, the Class of 2025 saw what could be described as more mixed results. Outcomes improved, but only because the Class of 2025 was materially smaller than the Class of 2024. Below are figures for the ABA-disclosed data (excluding Puerto Rico’s three law schools). These are ten-month figures from March 15, 2026 for the Class of 2025.
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Placement continues to be very good. On the heels of last year’s very hot job market, it appears that fewer positions were available this year. But because the size of the class was materially smaller, placement still improved in full-time, long-term bar passage-required jobs year-over-year. Those factors combined for a placement rate of 82.5%, even as raw job totals declined by around 2000 positions year over year. J.D. advantage jobs declined pretty significantly, as they have been for a decade.
It’s remarkable to compare the placement rates from the Class of 2012 to the present, from 56% to 82%. And while a lot of that is attributable to the decline in class size, this year’s employment figures were still quite robust.
Here’s some comparison of the year-over-year categories (all full-time, long-term positions).
There had been a longstanding uptick in public interest placement, but that certainly cooled with the most recent graduating class. Public interest job placement is up nearly 100% since the Class of 2018.
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