Employment rates for the law school class of 2011 hit an 18-year low, according to data released on June 7 by NALP, formerly the National Association for Law Placement.
Nine months after graduation, 85.6 percent of the class had secured employment — down by 6 percentage points from the all-time high employment rate of nearly 92 percent in 2007. Furthermore, not quite 66 percent of the recent graduates were in jobs that require bar membership — down by 9 percent since 2008.
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