This year's Selected Findings show an employment rate that has improved for the third year in a row, increasing to 89.4% of graduates for whom employment status was known, compared with 88.6% for the Class of 2017. Despite the rise in the overall employment rate, the number of jobs found by graduates declined again this year, by about 150 compared with the Class of 2017.
NALP's newly-released 2019 Associate Salary Survey report shows that the overall median first-year salary as of January 1, 2019, was $155,000, up $20,000 (14.8%) from 2017, the year of the most recent previous survey. The report provides information about about associate and summer associate salaries by firm size, region, and the metropolitan area population; detailed salary analyses for 24 major markets; analyses of salaries for offices using a levels-based compensation system; base salaries for class of 2019 associates by firm size and city; salaries for intellectual property lawyers; salaries for law clerks and staff attorneys; and more. Order your copy today!
On March 14-15, 2019, 75 people gathered for the first-ever NALP Reimagining Recruiting: A Design Thinking Workshop and #NALPathon. Among the attendees were NALP members, outside experts, and law students who came together to learn the principles of design thinking and apply those principles to real life recruiting dilemmas in an 8-team hackathon. To see pictures and videos of the team ideas, or to learn more about design thinking, visit the NALPathon web page.
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