The Class of 2021, like the class before it, faced considerable challenges in law school, given students navigated it during the worst of the COVID era.
But apparently there was a light at the end of their tunnel: jobs.
According to recent statistics from the American Bar Association (ABA), 83% of grads from the Class of 2021 had full-time, long-term jobs where bar passage is required or where a law degree is an advantage 10 months after graduation.
For the Class of 2020, just 77% of graduates landed such jobs. That was a decrease from the 80.6% of the preceding class—the one of 2019—a hiring drop contributed mostly to the pandemic, which has since eased.
“The higher percentage of graduates in the Bar Passage Required or J.D. Advantage jobs likely reflects a modest increase in the number of jobs nationwide, perhaps due to the legal market’s recovery from the impact of the pandemic,” said Bill Adams, managing director of ABA accreditation and legal education. “This is encouraging given there was also a 3.8% increase in the number of total graduates.”
The number of full-time, long-term jobs where bar passage is required or a law degree is an advantage increased by nearly 3,000 (+11.2%) year-over-year. Those jobs are often combined to paint the employment picture.
The most coveted jobs, though, are long-term positions where bar passage is required. For the Class of 2021, 74% landed such gigs. For the class before, the number was 69.9%. More than 50% found work in law firms,...
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