The employment rate for Georgia’s 2013 law school graduates showed little improvement from 2012—except at Emory University, which offers job stipends—but it was well above the national average at four of the state’s five ABA-accredited law schools.
Only about two-thirds of the graduates landed full-time, long-term jobs requiring a law degree within nine months of graduating. But the rates at Emory University (83.6 percent), the University of Georgia (68.4 percent), Georgia State University (65.6 percent) and Mercer University (65.6 percent) topped the national average of 57 percent. At Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, it was 39.7 percent.
