Law Schools

NALP Directory of Law Schools

This NALP Directory of Law Schools provides the information recruitment professionals need to plan for on-campus interviewing and to interpret student resumes. (Pre-law students will find The Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools, listed below, more useful than this directory designed for recruiters.) Through 2009, this directory was published annually in both hard copy and online format. For the future, the directory will be published online only, but new editions will continue to go online each year (generally in April). The online edition not only provides all of the information included in past print editions but also allows users to search on a variety of factors. It is available at www.nalplawschoolsonline.org.
2009-2010 Edition available in NALP's Bookstore

The Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools

ABA/LSAC, annual. This guide features not only individual profiles of schools but also a series of charts that allow recruiters or pre-law students to compare enrollment demographics or employment statistics of law schools at a glance.
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Lists of — and Links to — ABA-Approved Law Schools

The website of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar (http://www.abanet.org/legaled) includes links for ABA approved law schools that can be accessed in multiple ways - through an alphabetical list, a list by location (featuring a clickable map), lists of private and public law schools, and/or a list by date of ABA accreditation. Links to law schools can also be found on NALP's site under Professional Resources > Links > Member Law Schools and on the site of the Association of American Law Schools (www.aals.org).

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Mentoring

The Lawyer's Guide to Mentoring, Ida O. Abbott

NALP, 2000. To be successful, lawyers today need multiple mentors at every stage of their careers; Abbott's book offers advice on finding mentors, initiating (and ending) a mentoring relationship, and making the mentoring experience more meaningful.
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Lawyers' Professional Development, Ida O. Abbott

NALP, 2002. This comprehensive handbook for professional development administrators includes discussion of the evaluation process. (Note: This first edition is currently out of print but a spiral-bound, photocopy of its content can be purchased from NALP. A new edition will be published in mid- to late 2012.)
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Being an Effective Mentor: 101 Practical Strategies for Success, Ida O. Abbott

NALP, 2001. This 32-page booklet offers a wide range of quick tips for mentors — from tips for the first meeting to tips for promoting effective communication and building the mentee's confidence to tips on setting goals; it can be used on its own or in tandem with the smaller Working with a Mentor booklet.
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Working with a Mentor: 50 Practical Suggestions for Success, Ida O. Abbott

NALP, 2001. Effective mentoring is a two-way process, and this brochure offers tips to mentees on getting the most from a mentoring relationship.
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Mentoring Across Differences: A Guide to Cross-Gender and Cross-Race Mentoring

This excellent guide from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association is a free online publication that can be accessed by going to www.mcca.com and choosing the "Research" link or by going directly to
www.mcca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=666

Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success, Sheila W. Wellington/Catalyst

Random House, 2001. Catalyst's research suggests that mentoring is often more available to men than to women in today's business world; this book attempts to fill some of that gap by serving as a resource women can tap for inspiration or advice.
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NALP Research

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Associate Salary Survey, annual — published in August

NALP. This report takes a comprehensive look at associate salaries nationwide by class year (including summer associate clerks); by city and/or state; by region; and by firm size where sufficient data is available, with comparisons of law firm compensation and bonus structures also included.
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Public Sector & Public Interest Attorney Salary Report, biennial

NALP. This public sector salary report provides information on salaries at five types of organizations: civil legal services organizations; public defenders' offices' local prosecuting attorneys' offices; offices of attorneys general; and other public interest organizations. Salaries are reported both nationwide and by geographic markets. Basic information on benefits and on availability and nature of Loan Repayment Assistance Programs is also included.
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Jobs & JD's: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates, annual — published in July

NALP. Based on information submitted by law schools in February following the year of graduation, this report presents information on what types of jobs graduates found and where they found them; what members of the Class were earning; how earnings varied with geographic location and job type; what sizes of law firms employed the most graduates; which states offered the most job opportunities; and how women and minorities in the Class fared.
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Law School Career Services Survey

NALP. This biennial survey provides information on salaries, education levels, and job responsibilities of career services professionals as well as information on career services offices. Available to NALP members as a free PDF download.
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Survey of Legal Career Professionals in Law Firms and Employer Organizations

NALP. This biennial survey provides information on salaries, education levels, and job responsibilities of NALP members working for a law firm or other legal employer. Available to NALP members as a free PDF download.
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After the JD Monographs

The After the JD (AJD) study is a longitudinal study of the career choices and subsequent career progression of a nationally representative sample of lawyers who were first admitted to the bar in the year 2000. The study was designed and is overseen by an interdisciplinary group of scholars and funded by multiple institutions, among them NALP, the NALP Foundation, and the American Bar Foundation. It is the first research effort of its kind to examine the early careers of a cohort of more than 4,500 newly certified lawyers. NALP Senior Social Science Researcher Gita Wilder, who is a member of the AJD Executive Coordinating Committee, has written a series of four monographs based on the first wave of AJD findings. The monographs, which explore findings related to women and race-ethnicity in the legal profession and also to law school debt are available free of charge for viewing or download as PDFs at Research & Statistics > After the JD Monographs.

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RESEARCH FINDINGS FROM OTHER SOURCES

Oregon State Bar 2007 Economic Survey

The Oregon State Bar conducts a survey of its membership about once every five years. The most current report, published in December 2007, includes information on attorney demographics, areas of practice, types of employment (private practice, judiciary, etc.), billing rates, and compensation. Figures are reported both for the state as a whole and by practice area. The report can be found at http://www.osbar.org/_docs/resources/07EconSurvey.pdf.