Just six in 10 of the 4,967 students who graduated last year from New York state’s 15 law schools were able to find full-time, permanent employment requiring bar passage by Feb. 15, according to recently released statistics from the American Bar Association.

Reflecting a job market that remains tight, the 59.8 percent rate was somewhat higher than the national figure of 56.2 percent but only a slight improvement from 2011′s 57.2 percent for New York graduates.