Compare NALP's bimodal salary curve over several years
Information for law school career services regarding NALP's annual Employment Report & Salary Survey (ERSS)
NALP research on public interest salaries
Findings on First-Year Salaries from the NALP 2023 Associate Salary Survey
May 2023 Since 1995, NALP has been surveying firms to collect information about the salaries of associates, producing our biennial Associate Salary Survey report. This trusted source provides important benchmarking data such as associate salaries by years of experience for specific cities, states, regions, and firm sizes; salary information for levels-based compensation; the prevalence and sizes of bonuses for prior judicial clerks; and salaries for staff attorneys, law clerks, and sum...
Salary Distribution Curves - Archive (Updated July 27, 2022)
For a number of years NALP has prepared a graphic to illustrate the bi-modal nature of the distribution of salaries obtained by law school graduates. See current years here . Since 2009, an "adjusted" mean has been calculated in addition to the mean calculated based on reported salaries. Essentially, the adjusted mean compensates for the fact that the distribution of reported full-time salaries is not the same as the distribution of reported full-time jobs, particularly when it comes to ...
Class of 2022 Buying Power Index (Updated September 25, 2023)
NALP Bulletin+ October 2023 The relative buying power of the U.S. dollar in any two cities is important when comparing the nominal dollar amounts of typical salaries in those cities. Law students considering where to work post-graduation, for example, might ask how the buying power of a $215,000 salary in Boston, MA compares to the same nominal salary in San Francisco, CA. The question becomes, "Which location offers the most buying power?" Cities with more buying power offer additional ...
Salaries & Compensation (Updated June 9, 2023)
NALP Research: Salaries & Compensation
NALP's Public Service Attorney Salary Survey Shows Pay Remains Lowest at Civil Legal Services Organizations (Updated May 6, 2024)
NALP Bulletin+ , May 2024 NALP's latest analysis from the 2023 Public Service Attorney Salary Survey shows that civil legal services/legal aid organizations continue to pay lower salaries as compared to other public service employers, such as public defenders and other non-profits. This is consistent with trends from prior surveys dating back to 2004. Salary figures for the 2023 survey were reported as of October 1, 2023, for U.S. based public service employers. The disparities in pa...
Summary Salary Findings from NALP's 2018 Survey of Legal Career Professionals (Updated September 6, 2023)
Summary Salary Findings from NALP's 2018 Survey of Legal Career Professionals, NALP Bulletin, November 2018
Trends (Updated August 7, 2023)
NALP Research: Trends
Class of 2023 Employment Report and Salary Survey (ERSS) Data Collection Process (Updated November 7, 2023)
Presented November 6, 2023 Employment and salary outcome data collection for the Class of 2023 is underway and will culminate with your submission of the data to NALP in April 2024. This webinar provides an overview of the NALP Class of 2023 Employment Report and Salary Survey (ERSS) data collection process. Danielle Taylor, NALP Director of Research, describes what's new for the Class of 2023, discusses differences between the ABA and NALP datasets, provides tips for a clean data submissio...
Class of 2022 (Updated February 12, 2024)
First-Gen College Students Face Challenges in the Entry-Level Legal Employment Market NALP Bulletin+ , February 2024 Some Gaps Narrow, But Disparities in Employment Outcomes Persist for the Class of 2022 NALP Bulletin+ , January 2024 Jobs & JD's: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates — Class of 2022 will be available in October 2023. Pre-order your copy today using this order form (PDF) --> Watch the webinar (members only) Disparate Outcomes:...
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Each year , NALP and your law school partner to measure the employment outcomes for graduates of your law school and of every ABA - accredited school in the country . This helps us measure the strength of the entry - level legal employment market at the national , regional , and local levels . Your participation in this survey is critical in helping us provide this important information . Your law school and NALP respect your expectations concerning the confide...
/uploads/ERSS/ERSS_FAQs_2024_12623.pdf (Updated December 6, 2023)
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Each year , NALP and your law school partner to measure the employment outcomes for graduates of your law school and of every ABA - accredited school in the country . This helps us measure the strength of the entry - level legal employment market at the national , regional , and local levels . Your participation in this survey is critical in helping us provide this important information . Your law school and NALP respect your expectations concerning the confide...
/uploads/ERSS/6_ERSS_GraduatesWeNeedYourHelp_2023.pdf (Updated October 5, 2023)
Graduates : We Need Your Help ! Your experiences searching for a job are of interest and value to your peers in the legal community . Now that you have graduated , you can take an active role in helping your profession compile accurate information on the employment outlook by assisting your career office and completing the enclosed survey , which asks for information on your post - graduation employment status . PLEASE BE AMONG THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF YOUR CLASSMATES WHO SUPPORT THE...
NALP Report: Class of 2022 Selected Findings (Updated August 2, 2023)
Preliminary employment outcomes for the Class of 2022
Employment Market for Class of 2022 Law Graduates Reaches 35-Year High (Updated September 5, 2023)
NALP Bulletin+ , September 2023 One year ago, the Class of 2021 achieved the strongest employment outcomes that NALP has ever recorded; however, the Class of 2022 entered an even more robust employment market for new law graduates, shattering many of the highs notched by the previous class. According to the latest findings from NALP's Employment Report and Salary Survey , the Class of 2022 attained the best employment rate in 35 years and a record share of graduates working in bar passage...
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Survey of Legal Career Professionals in Law Firms and Employer Organizations Recruiting ; Professional Development ; Diversity , Equity , and Inclusion ; Alumni Relations ; and other Lawyer Personnel Management Professionals in Law Firms and Employer Organizations SURVEY DUE DATE ABOUT THE SURVEY Please take a few minutes to complete this survey about your job responsibilities May and salary . Responses should reflect your job role and salary as of April 1 , 2024 . If you have any questi...
First-Gen College Students Face Challenges in the Entry-Level Legal Employment Market (Updated February 12, 2024)
NALP Bulletin+ February 2024 Since the Class of 2020, NALP has been collecting parental education data within our annual Employment Report and Salary Survey , and for the Class of 2022 this information was reported for approximately 54% of graduates. Overall, 93% of law schools reported parental education data for at least some of their graduates. As a whole, Class of 2022 graduates who reported parental education had a somewhat higher employment rate (93.5%) compared to graduates overa...
Class of 2022 NALP Press Release, August 2023 (Updated August 2, 2023)
Class of 2022 Employment and Salary Outcomes Shatter Records — Future Classes May Face a Tougher Market
Class of 2010 (Updated July 10, 2023)
Employment data for the Class of 2010
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Employment Report and Salary Survey Data for the Class of 2023 Instructions for Compiling and Reporting Deadline for Submitting Your Data to NALP : Wednesday , April 10 , 2024
Contents Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Before you submit your data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Class of 2023 NALP Employment and Salary Data Collection November 6 , 2023 Presenter : Danielle Taylor , Director of Research
Introduction and Syllabus • We share a collective professional responsibility to collect and report law school employment outcomes . • Longstanding collaborative venture between schools / students & schools / NALP – our 50thyear ! • Today we will cover – NALP changes for the Class of 2023 – Navigating the ABA Protocols & differences between NALP and ABA ...
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Class of 2022 : Preliminary Employment and Salary Findings Free Member Webinar August 1 , 2023 Presenters : Nikia Gray , Executive Director Danielle Taylor , Director of Research
The Employment Rate for the Class of 2022 was the highest since 1987 89.0 % 88.9 % 88.9 % 89.6 % 90.7 % 91.9 % 89.9 % 88.3 % 87.6 % 85.6 % 84.7 % 84.5 % 86.7 % 86.7 % 87.5 % 88.6 % 89.4 % 90.3 % 88.4 % 91.9 % 92.1 % 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020...
Welcome New NALP Members (Updated October 12, 2023)
Below you will find helpful resources to get you better acquainted with your new NALP membership. To learn more about your NALP membership benefits download the benefits flyer. To access all members-only resources, members must first login to the NALP Member Portal. Get Involved As a member-driven association, NALP relies on the contributions of volunteers at every turn and there are many ways to contribute. We regularly need volunteers at all levels, whether you have a couple ...
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Special note to employers : It is acceptable to attach a report generated by your tracking system . Please complete items I ( Employer Contact Information ) and IV ( Other Information ) and attach your reports before emailing to the law school contact . Employer’s Interview Outcome Form – 2023 - 2024 Recruiting Season Law School : Send this form to : Name / Title : Address : Phone : ( ) Fax : ( ) E - mail : Please report the results of your interviews with students from our law school . ...
Past Years (Updated January 9, 2024)
2022 Disparities in Employment Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity Persist for the Class of 2021; Particularly for Black, Native American, and Native Hawaiian Graduates October 19, 2022 The NALP Foundation and NALP Announce AccessLex Institute Grant for Joint U.S. Law School Alumni Employment and Satisfaction Study October 11, 2022 NALP Names Nikia L. Gray New Executive Director September 19, 2022 Job Market for Class of 2021 Law Graduates Was One of t...
Buying Power Index Class of 2010 (Updated February 10, 2023)
NALP Research: Buying Power Index Class of 2010
Buying Power Index Class of 2011 (Updated February 10, 2023)
NALP Research: Buying Power Index Class of 2011, January 2013
Buying Power Index - Class of 2014 (Updated February 10, 2023)
NALP Research: Buying Power Index - Class of 2014, March 2016
/uploads/PressReleases/NALPPressReleaseAssociateSalarySurveyMay2023Final.pdf (Updated May 9, 2023)
th 1220 19 Street NW , Suite 510 Washington , DC 20036 - 2425 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10 , 2023 Contacts : Danielle A . Taylor , NALP Director of Research , dtaylor @ nalp.org Nikia L . Gray , NALP Executive Director , ngray @ nalp.org Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 First - Year Associate Salaries Increase Sharply Since 2021 WASHINGTON , D.C . — The National Association for Law Placement ( NALP ) today released its 2023 Associate Salary Survey report , showing th...
Buying Power Index Class of 2012 (Updated February 10, 2023)
NALP Research: Buying Power Index Class of 2012, September 2013
Class of 2020 Buying Power Index (Updated February 10, 2023)
NALP Research: Class of 2020 Buying Power Index
Class of 2018 Buying Power Index (Updated February 10, 2023)
NALP Research: Class of 2018 Buying Power Index, November 2019
Findings from the NALP/PSJD 2022 Public Service Attorney Salary Survey (Updated May 31, 2022)
NALP Bulletin+ , June 2022 Among attorneys working in civil legal services organizations, as public defenders, or as attorneys in public interest organizations in 2022, those providing civil legal services have the lowest median entry-level salary and receive the smallest increases in salary based on years of experience. This is a key finding from NALP/PSJD 2022 Public Service Attorney Salary Survey Report and is consistent with findings from earlier surveys which have been conducted per...
Class of 2022 Preliminary Findings Webinar (Updated August 2, 2023)
Presented August 1, 2023 Danielle Taylor, NALP Director of Research, and Nikia Gray, NALP Executive Director, provide a preview of the employment and salary findings for the Class of 2022. Watch the recording Download the slides (PDF)
/uploads/PressReleases/NALPPressRel_2022PublicServiceAttorneySalaryReport.pdf (Updated June 21, 2022)
1220 19th Street NW , Suite 510 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 22 , 2022 Contacts : Samuel D . Halpert , Director of Public Service Initiatives , shalpert @ nalp.org Danielle A . Taylor , NALP Director of Research , dtaylor @ nalp.org Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 New Public Service Attorney Salary Figures Show Growth Since 2018 , But Remain Considerably Below Private Sector Salaries WASHINGTON , D.C . — According to new research from NALP...
Public Interest Law Firm Employment for New Law Graduates (Updated January 30, 2023)
NALP Bulletin+ February 2023 Since the Class of 2015, the percentage of law graduates working in law firms, and in particular, large law firms, has been increasing according to analyses from NALP's annual Employment Report and Salary Survey. However, just a small fraction of those law firm jobs — typically less than 1% — are found in public interest law firms. While a public interest law firm is defined as a private and for-profit firm, it is distinguished from other private firms in tha...
/uploads/ERSS/9_ASCII_2023.pdf (Updated August 8, 2023)
NALP ERSS DATA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * * * * OCTOBER 2023 * * * * Please review these specifications carefully even if you have submitted a file prior to 2023 . These specifications are designed to be used in conjunction with your ERSS instruction booklet . The instruction booklet provides more detailed information and definitions to ensure accurate and uniform reporting on the part of all schools . General Information • The data file may be an ASCII delimited text file or an Excel spr...
/uploads/ERSS/1_Classof2023CoverLetter.pdf (Updated October 5, 2023)
October 2023 DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING YOUR DATA TO NALP : TO : Law School Career Services Offices April 10 , 2024 FROM : Nikia L . Gray , Executive Director Danielle A . Taylor , Director of Research SUBJECT : 2023 Employment Report and Salary Survey ( ERSS ) We are writing to provide you with a complete set of the Class of 2023 Employment Report and Salary Survey ( ERSS ) instructional materials and resources , which are posted on the NALP website at : www.nalp.org / erssinfo . Collectin...
/uploads/ERSS/Class_of_2024_Graduate_Survey_v2.pdf (Updated October 5, 2023)
NALP EMPLOYMENT REPORT AND SALARY SURVEY Please refer to the “ Frequently Asked Questions ” sheet as you are completing this survey . Contact Information Name Permanent Address Phone Email I . Demographic Information A1 . Program Type at Time of Graduation Full - time / 3 - Year Part - time / Evening A2 . Transfer Student ? Yes No B.Age ( Complete either B1 or B2 ) B1 . Age at Graduation B2 . Birth Date C.Gender ( How do you describe yourself ? ) C1 . Select all that apply . Woman Man No...
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NALP EMPLOYMENT REPORT AND SALARY SURVEY Please refer to the “ Frequently Asked Questions ” sheet as you are completing this survey . Contact Information Name Permanent Address Phone Email I . Demographic Information A1 . Program Type at Time of Graduation Full - time / 3 - Year Part - time / Evening A2 . Transfer Student ? Yes No B.Age ( Complete either B1 or B2 ) B1 . Age at Graduation B2 . Birth Date C.Gender ( How do you describe yourself ? ) C1 . Select all that apply . Woman Man No...
Webinar Archives (Updated May 6, 2024)
The webinars listed below are available to members for on-demand viewing. Those with the icon are available to non-members as well. To find the free student e-learning modules go to the Developing the Professional Lawyer page . Topics: Career Services Diversity Lawyer/Law Student PD Member PD Public Interest/Public Service Recruiting Research Student Debt Virtual/Remote Work Well-Being ...
Does a Gender Pay Gap Exist for New Law Graduates and Has It Changed Over Time? (Updated February 8, 2023)
Does a Gender Pay Gap Exist for New Law Graduates and Has It Changed Over Time?, NALP Bulletin, October 2019
Recent Graduates (Updated August 1, 2023)
Each year NALP surveys the graduating JD class to learn about the employment experiences of new law graduates.
Employment Outcomes for Graduates with Disabilities (Updated November 30, 2022)
NALP Bulletin+ December 2022 While disability status is likely to be underreported by law graduates, the percentage of graduates self-reporting a disability has grown in recent years, increasing from 4.1% for the Class of 2019 to 5.5% for the Class of 2021, according to the latest data from NALP's Employment Report and Salary Survey . Disability reporting is even more limited within law firms, but it has likewise increased, albeit growing from just 0.6% of all lawyers reporting a disabi...
NALP Research on Non-Binary Law School Graduates (Updated February 8, 2023)
NALP Bulletin , December 2020 The recently released NALP publication, Jobs & JDs: Employment and Salaries of New Graduates — Class of 2019 , features an expanded demographics section this year, including the first in-depth analysis of employment and salary outcomes for non-binary law school graduates. This article will explore these outcomes in more detail. Background NALP first added an "I do not identify as male or female" gender identity reporting option to the Employme...
Some Gaps Narrow, But Disparities in Employment Outcomes Persist for the Class of 2022 (Updated January 19, 2024)
NALP Bulletin+ January 2024 There have been long-standing disparities in employment outcomes for graduates of color as compared to White graduates and new data from NALP's Class of 2022 Employment Report and Salary Survey show that while some of these gaps have narrowed over the past eight years, others have widened. For example, although gaps have lessened for Asian, Black, and Latinx graduates, concerning increases are observed in several areas for Native American, Alaska Native, Nat...
NALP Survey Captures Elements of Pandemic Shifts in Legal Profession (Updated October 28, 2022)
NALP Bulletin+ November 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has had a meaningful and measurable impact on the jobs and careers of NALP members working for employer organizations. NALP recently published the 2022 Survey of Legal Career Professionals in Employer Organizations , reporting on salaries and experience in the profession, among other topics, for these individuals. This biennial report continues a long-standing NALP research initiative to learn about NALP members, as described in a...
Current (Updated March 26, 2024)
NALP Press Releases - Current Year
Class of 2022 ERSS Data Collection Process Webinar (Updated October 27, 2022)
Presented October 25, 2022 Employment and salary outcome data collection for the Class of 2022 is underway and will culminate with your submission of the data to NALP in April 2023. This webinar provides an overview of the NALP Class of 2022 Employment Report and Salary Survey (ERSS) data collection process. Presenters James Leipold and Danielle Taylor describe what's new for the Class of 2022, discuss differences between the ABA and NALP data sets, give tips for a clean data submission, an...
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NALP Graduate Employment Survey for the Class of 2022 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Each year , NALP and your law school partner to measure the employment outcomes for graduates of your law school and of every ABA - accredited school in the country . This helps us measure the strength of the entry - level legal employment market at the national , regional , and local levels . Your participation in this survey is critical in helping us provide this important information . Your law school and...
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NALP Graduate Employment Survey for the Class of 2023 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Each year , NALP and your law school partner to measure the employment outcomes for graduates of your law school and of every ABA - accredited school in the country . This helps us measure the strength of the entry - level legal employment market at the national , regional , and local levels . Your participation in this survey is critical in helping us provide this important information . Your law school and...
/uploads/ERSS/8_ERSS_FAQs_2023.pdf (Updated October 5, 2022)
NALP Graduate Employment Survey for the Class of 2023 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Each year , NALP and your law school partner to measure the employment outcomes for graduates of your law school and of every ABA - accredited school in the country . This helps us measure the strength of the entry - level legal employment market at the national , regional , and local levels . Your participation in this survey is critical in helping us provide this important information . Your law school and...
Upcoming Webinars & Conferences (Updated May 14, 2024)
What type of programming are you looking for? Virtual and In-Person Conferences Free Members-Only Webinars Virtual and In-Person Conferences title dates Coming soon --> Virtual Mental Health First Aid October 22-23, 2024 Coming soon Professional Development Institute December 5-6, 2024 Scottsdale, AZ Coming soon Legal Recruiting Summit ...
/uploads/ERSS/6_ERSS_GraduatesWeNeedYourHelp_2022.pdf (Updated October 3, 2022)
For Students Graduates : We Need Your Help ! Your experiences searching for a job are of interest and value to your peers in the legal community . Now that you have graduated , you can take an active role in helping your profession compile accurate information on the employment outlook by assisting your career services office and completing the enclosed survey , which asks for information on your post - graduation employment status . PLEASE BE AMONG THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF YOUR CLAS...
Job Market for Class of 2021 Law Graduates Was One of the Strongest on Record (Updated February 10, 2023)
NALP Bulletin +, September 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic produced a slightly weakened job market for the Class of 2020, a class that graduated in the early months of the pandemic and faced numerous obstacles in their job search, including delayed and — in many cases, online — bar exams, and shutdowns to parts of the economy. A year later, as the U.S. economy recovered from those pandemic-related disruptions, the employment outcomes for the Class of 2021 are some of the strongest ever record...
Judicial Clerks Remain Less Diverse than Law Graduates Overall (Updated October 3, 2022)
Judicial Clerks Remain Less Diverse than Law Graduates Overall, NALP Research, October 2022. judicial clerks, judicial clerkships, diversity
Canadian Section (Updated February 23, 2024)
The Canadian Section is for NALP members with a particular interest in Canadian legal education, Canadian law school career services, and issues surrounding legal employment and admission to the bar in Canada.
NALP Membership Benefits (Updated October 3, 2023)
NALP Membership: It's an investment in yourself and your organization Top 5 benefits to NALP membership 1) Industry research at your fingertips — to bolster your know-how. Law school graduate employment outcomes and salaries Diversity in the legal profession stats Member, associate, and public interest salaries 2) Member publications capture breaking news, industry climate and new trends — so your expertise is always up to date. Industry...
Research & Statistics (Updated February 17, 2023)
NALP is the premier resource for information on legal employment and recruiting. Analysis of data sources such as the Employment Report and Salary Survey, the Associate Salary Survey, the NALP Directory of Legal Employers, and others allows NALP to provide comprehensive information on a variety of topics. Diversity & Demographics Law Firm Administration Lawyer & Law Student Professional Development Legal Career Professionals Recent Graduates ...
Class of 2021 (Updated January 30, 2023)
Public Interest Law Firm Employment for New Law Graduates , February 2023 Bulletin + Disparities in Employment Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity Persist for the Class of 2021 , January 2023 Bulletin + Read the press release on employment outcomes for the Class of 2021: Disparities in Employment Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity Persist for the Class of 2021; Particularly for Black, Native American, and Native Hawaiian Graduates October 19, 2022 Disparate Outcomes Webinar: NALP's...
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NALP believes in fairness , facts and the power of a diverse community . We work every day to be the best career services , recruitment , and professional development organization in the world because we want the lawyers and law students we serve to have an ethical recruiting system , employment data they can trust , and expert advisers to guide and support them in every stage of their careers .
NALP Employment and Salary Data Collection for the Class of 2022 October 25 , 2022 Present...
For Career Services (Updated May 8, 2024)
NALP Resources for Career Services
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Class of 2022 National Summary Report Number Reported % of Reported Full - time Long - term Salaries # with Salary 25 th Percentile Median 75 th Percentile Mean Total Grads Class of 2022 36,078 Total Reported to NALP 35,454 Gender Reported 33,223 100.0 Women 18,155 54.6 11,237 $ 65,000 $ 83,500 $ 190,000 $ 114,579 Men 14,866 44.7 9,279 68,000 90,000 202,500 119,232 Non - binary or Chose to Self - identify * 202 0.6 132 60,332 70,387 125,000 100,380 Race Reported 31,913 100.0 People of Co...
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Employment Report and Salary Survey Data for the Class of 2022 Instructions for Compiling and Reporting Deadline for Submitting Your Data to NALP : Friday , April 14 , 2023
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NALP Bulletin+ Homepage (Updated October 5, 2023)
The NALP Bulletin+ , a monthly digital magazine, presents news and issues of professional interest to NALP’s membership of more than 2,500 legal career professionals who advise law students, lawyers, law offices, and law schools in the U.S., Canada, and beyond. Launched in May 2021, the NALP Bulletin+ is a combination of the legacy NALP Bulletin and PD Quarterly brands. The NALP Bulletin+ invites articles from members and other interested professionals. The NALP Bulletin+ is provid...
Bulletin+, NALP's Digital Magazine (Updated April 4, 2024)
The NALP Bulletin+ is a monthly digital magazine that presents news and issues of professional interest to NALP’s membership of more than 3,000 legal career professionals who advise law students, lawyers, law offices, and law schools in the U.S., Canada, and beyond. The Bulletin+ is provided to NALP members as part of their annual membership fees. This Month's Bulletin+ Highlights Bulletin+...
What We Know About JD Advantage Jobs - An Update for the Class of 2020 (Updated February 10, 2023)
NALP Bulletin + January 2022 NALP's latest analysis of JD Advantage job data from the Class of 2020 Employment Report and Salary Survey reveals that despite the continuing decline in both the percentage of graduates employed in JD Advantage jobs and the total number of JD Advantage jobs taken, the vast majority of these jobs (73%) remain high-quality jobs in terms of being both long-term and full-time. Key findings from the tables and charts that follow are presented below. Key ...
NALP vs ABA Data: Why Do They Vary? (Updated November 9, 2023)
Why is NALP’s data on employment outcomes for a school sometimes different from the ABA’s data published for that school?
NALP at 50: Exploring the Data from the Employment Report & Salary Survey (Updated February 9, 2023)
NALP Bulletin , April 2021 Enclosure A Three-page memo , ERSS report, October 1975 Class of 1974 survey instrument --> While apples-to-apples comparisons are not always possible, data from NALP's annual Employment Report & Salary Survey (ERSS) have provided some key insights into employment and salary outcomes for law school graduates. As we celebrate NALP's 50th Anniversary in 2021, it's important to look back at the ways the ERSS has evolved through the years, w...
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October 2022 DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING YOUR DATA TO NALP : TO : Law School Career Services Offices April 14 , 2023 FROM : James Leipold , Executive Director Danielle Taylor , Director of Research SUBJECT : 2022 Employment Report and Salary Survey ( ERSS ) We are writing to provide you with a complete set of the Employment Report and Salary Survey ( ERSS ) materials for the Class of 2022 , including the ERSS form for the Class of 2022 which is posted on the NALP website at : www.nalp.org / ...
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Special note to employers : It is acceptable to attach a report generated by your tracking system . Please complete items I ( Employer Contact Information ) and IV ( Other Information ) and attach your reports before mailing to the law school . Employer’s Interview Outcome Form – 2022 - 2023 Recruiting Season Law School : _____________________________________________________________________________________ Return this form to : Name / Title : _____________________________________________...
/uploads/PressReleases/NALPPressReleaseJobsJDs19October2022.pdf (Updated October 12, 2022)
1220 19th Street NW , Suite 510 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19 , 2022 Contacts : Danielle A . Taylor , NALP Director of Research , dtaylor @ nalp.org James G . Leipold , NALP Executive Director , jleipold @ nalp.org Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 Disparities in Employment Outcomes by Race / Ethnicity Persist for the Class of 2021 ; Particularly for Black , Native American , and Native Hawaiian Graduates WASHINGTON , D.C . — New employ...
LGBTQ Lawyers & Graduates (Updated November 6, 2023)
LGBTQ Lawyers & Graduates
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Going Back to Law School : Moving from Practice to Law School Career Advising Updated April 2024 What do law school career offices do ? Law school career services offices ( CSOs ) are responsible for student career and professional development and for supporting students as they launch their legal careers . These offices are as varied as the law schools and stu If you are considering a change , you might wonder what CSO professionals do in their jobs . The following are some roles that l...
Research on Diversity & Demographics (Updated December 15, 2023)
NALP Research on Diversity & Demographics
/uploads/ERSS/9_ASCII2022.pdf (Updated October 5, 2022)
NALP ERSS DATA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * * * * OCTOBER 2022 * * * * Please review these specifications carefully even if you have submitted a file prior to 2022 . These specifications are designed to be used in conjunction with your ERSS instruction booklet . The instruction booklet provides more detailed information and definitions to ensure accurate and uniform reporting on the part of all schools . General Information • The data file may be an ASCII delimited text file or an Excel spr...
Racial/Ethnic Representation of Class of 2019 Judicial Clerks (Updated February 10, 2023)
NALP Bulletin , February 2021 As noted in an October 2017 Bulletin column by NALP's Judy Collins, long-term trends in the racial composition of judicial clerks show that despite modest improvements over time, graduates of color have historically been underrepresented in clerkships. The latest data for the Class of 2019 reveal that these disparities continue to persist for new law graduates, according to NALP's Jobs & JDs: Employment and Salaries of New Graduates, Class of 2019 . ...
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Oct - 21 GRADUATE SURVEY FORM — CLASS OF 2022 NALP EMPLOYMENT REPORT AND SALARY SURVEY Please refer to the “ Frequently Asked Questions ” sheet as you are completing this survey . Name __________________________________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________ Permanent Address ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ E - mail ______________________________________________________ I.DEMOGRAPHIC...
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Oct - 22 GRADUATE SURVEY FORM — CLASS OF 2023 NALP EMPLOYMENT REPORT AND SALARY SURVEY Please refer to the “ Frequently Asked Questions ” sheet as you are completing this survey . Name __________________________________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________ Permanent Address ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ E - mail ______________________________________________________ I.DEMOGRAPHIC...
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Oct - 22 GRADUATE SURVEY FORM — CLASS OF 2023 NALP EMPLOYMENT REPORT AND SALARY SURVEY Please refer to the “ Frequently Asked Questions ” sheet as you are completing this survey . Name __________________________________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________ Permanent Address ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ E - mail ______________________________________________________ I.DEMOGRAPHIC...
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Oct - 22 GRADUATE SURVEY FORM — CLASS OF 2023 NALP EMPLOYMENT REPORT AND SALARY SURVEY Please refer to the “ Frequently Asked Questions ” sheet as you are completing this survey . Name __________________________________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________ Permanent Address ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ E - mail ______________________________________________________ I.DEMOGRAPHIC...
Class of 2019 (Updated August 29, 2022)
Employment data for the Class of 2019
Starting Salaries - Class of 2020 (Updated September 9, 2021)
NALP Research: Starting Salaries - Class of 2020
A Fresh Look at Existing Info: Analyzing 30 Years of Law School Graduate Employment Data (Updated July 12, 2022)
NALP Bulletin+ July/August 2022 NALP's research on graduate employment data in the legal profession has helped keep a spotlight on trends in legal hiring and employment over the past three decades. This article analyzes 30 years of data collected in NALP's Employment Report & Salary Survey , comparing it with U.S. Census data from 1990 to 2020. The combination of 30 years of granular and accessible graduate employment data, for the Classes of 1991-2020 — book-ended nicely by four...
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2023 Law School Career Services Survey ABOUT THE SURVEY This survey collects information that you want to know and is the basis for the only national benchmarking report on career services salaries , and staffing levels . The value of this biennial report depends on your participation in the survey , and is entirely a function of the amount of information received . Please help yourself and your colleagues by completing the survey now . The full report will be available online later this...
Disparities in Employment Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity Persist for the Class of 2021 (Updated January 9, 2023)
NALP Bulletin+ January 2023 There have been long-standing disparities in employment outcomes for graduates of color as compared to white graduates and new data from NALP's Class of 2021 Employment Report and Salary Survey show that while some of these differences have narrowed over the past seven years, large gaps remain. Further, progress has not been universal for all demographics. Although gaps have lessened for Asian, Black, Latinx, and multiracial graduates, they have grown for Nati...
Employer Types with Average Salary for Class of 2020 (Updated September 9, 2021)
NALP Research: Employer Types with Average Salary for Class of 2020
Summary Findings from NALP’s 2017 US Law School Career Services Survey (Updated September 6, 2023)
Summary Findings from NALP’s 2017 US Law School Career Services Survey, NALP Bulletin, December 2017
Full-time Salaries for Jobs Lasting at Least One Year, by Employer or Job Type — Class of 2020 (Updated September 9, 2021)
NALP Research: Full-time Salaries for Jobs Lasting at Least One Year, by Employer or Job Type — Class of 2020
Bulletin+ Highlights (Updated May 9, 2024)
PD and Wellness for the PD Professional by Shannon Burke and Kelly Druten Green May 2024 As PD professionals, we dedicate our energy and time to planning and executing first-rate PD programming for the lawyers (and sometimes paralegals, paraprofessionals, and other business professionals) at our respective firms. But it is also important that we are intentional about carving out time for our own professional development and wellness. Lateral Hiring Market Continued to Soften...
Class of 2021 ERSS Data Collection Process (Updated November 12, 2021)
Presented November 9, 2021 Employment and salary outcome data collection for the Class of 2021 is underway and will culminate with your submission of the data to NALP in April 2022. This webinar provides an overview of the NALP Class of 2021 Employment Report and Salary Survey (ERSS) data collection process. Presenters James Leipold and Danielle Taylor describe what's new for the Class of 2021, discuss differences between the ABA and NALP data sets, give tips for a clean data submission, an...
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NALP Graduate Employment Survey for the Class of 2021 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Each year , NALP and your law school partner to measure the employment outcomes for graduates of your law school and of every ABA - accredited school in the country . This helps us measure the strength of the entry - level legal employment market at the national , regional , and local levels . Your participation in this survey is critical in helping us provide this important information . Your law school and...
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NALP Graduate Employment Survey for the Class of 2022 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Each year , NALP and your law school partner to measure the employment outcomes for graduates of your law school and of every ABA - accredited school in the country . This helps us measure the strength of the entry - level legal employment market at the national , regional , and local levels . Your participation in this survey is critical in helping us provide this important information . Your law school and...
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For Students Graduates : We Need Your Help ! Your experiences searching for a job are of interest and value to your peers in the legal community . Now that you have graduated , you can take an active role in helping your profession compile accurate information on the employment outlook by assisting your career services office and completing the enclosed survey , which asks for information on your post - graduation employment status . PLEASE BE AMONG THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF YOUR CLAS...
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November 2021 DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING YOUR DATA TO NALP : TO : Law School Career Services Offices April 20 , 2022 FROM : James Leipold , Executive Director Danielle Taylor , Director of Research SUBJECT : 2021 Employment Report and Salary Survey ( ERSS ) We are writing to provide you with a complete set of the Employment Report and Salary Survey ( ERSS ) materials for the Class of 2021 , including the ERSS form for the Class of 2021 which has already been posted to the NALP website at : ...
Class of 2020 ERSS Data Collection Process Webinar (Updated September 29, 2021)
NALP Webinar: Class of 2020 ERSS Data Collection Process
NALP Press Release: Overall Median Salaries Rise and Private Practice Employment Remains Strong for the Class of 2020 (Updated August 1, 2021)
Overall Median Salaries Rise and Private Practice Employment Remains Strong for the Class of 2020, Even as Other Key Employment Metrics Decline Due to the Pandemic. August 25, 2021.
NALP Research: Employment for the Class of 2020 - Selected Findings (Updated August 25, 2021)
Employment for the Class of 2020 - Selected Findings Report. August 2021.
/uploads/Webinar/Classof2021DataCollectionWebinar_Slides.pdf (Updated November 9, 2021)
11 / 9 / 2021 NALP believes in fairness , facts and the power of a diverse community . We work every day to be the best career services , recruitment , and professional development organization in the world because we want the lawyers and law students we serve to have an ethical recruiting system , employment data they can trust , and expert advisers to guide and support them in every stage of their careers . 1 NALP Employment and Salary Data Collection for the Class of 2021 November 9 ,...
New Findings on Disparities in Employment Outcomes Based on Level of Parental Education (Updated October 29, 2021)
NALP Research: New Findings on Disparities in Employment Outcomes Based on Level of Parental Education, November 2021
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Survey of Legal Career Professionals in Law Firms and Employer Organizations Recruiting ; Professional Development ; Diversity , Equity , and Inclusion ; Alumni Relations ; and other Lawyer Personnel Management Professionals in Law Firms and Employer Organizations SURVEY DUE DATE ABOUT THE SURVEY May Please take a few minutes to complete this survey about your job . Please answer all questions to refl ect your job as of April 1 , 2022 , and submit your survey by May 6 , 2022 . 6 If you h...
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Aug - 20 GRADUATE SURVEY FORM — CLASS OF 2021 NALP EMPLOYMENT REPORT AND SALARY SURVEY Please refer to the “ Frequently Asked Questions ” sheet as you are completing this survey . Name __________________________________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________ Permanent Address _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ E - mail __________________________________________________________________...
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Aug - 20 GRADUATE SURVEY FORM — CLASS OF 2021 NALP EMPLOYMENT REPORT AND SALARY SURVEY Please refer to the “ Frequently Asked Questions ” sheet as you are completing this survey . Name __________________________________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________ Permanent Address _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ E - mail __________________________________________________________________...
/uploads/PressReleases/NALPPressReleaseJobsandJDs_20October2021.pdf (Updated October 19, 2021)
1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20 , 2021 Contacts : James G . Leipold , NALP Executive Director , jleipold @ nalp.org Danielle A . Taylor , NALP Director of Research , dtaylor @ nalp.org Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 NALP Reports Employment Outcomes for First - Generation College Students Fall Below Those of Their Peers , and Disparities in Outcomes by Race / Ethnicity Persist WASHINGTON , D.C . — For the...
Employer’s Interview Outcome Form – 2021-2022 Recruiting Season (Updated August 1, 2021)
Updated July 2021
LGBTQ+ Resources (Updated February 10, 2023)
Resources for LGBTQ+ information
Two Perspectives on Military Veterans (Updated March 14, 2022)
Two Perspectives on Military Veterans, NALP Bulletin, February 2020
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The NALP Foundation and NALP Announce AccessLex Institute Grant for Joint U.S . Law School Alumni Employment and Satisfaction Study Boston , Massachusetts and Washington , D.C . – October 11 , 2022 – The NALP Foundation and NALP ® announce a generous grant from AccessLex Institute , supporting the participation of HBCU law schools and law schools with significant levels of students and alumni from groups underrepresented in the legal profession , in their joint annual Law School Alumni E...
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NALP ERSS DATA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * * * * NOVEMBER 2021 * * * * Please review these specifications carefully even if you have submitted a file prior to 2021 . These specifications are designed to be used in conjunction with your ERSS instruction booklet . The instruction booklet provides more detailed information and definitions to ensure accurate and uniform reporting on the part of all schools . General Information The data file may be an ASCII delimited text file or an Excel sp...
Member Diversity Fellowships & Scholarships (Updated May 15, 2024)
In the 2023-2024 NALP Business Plan, NALP President Tony Waller created a First Year Diversity Recruiting Task Force to investigate and research the current state of first-year diversity hiring. In January 2024, the NALP First Year Diversity Recruiting Task Force provided a set of preliminary "Best Practices" in advance of their final work, which will be forthcoming in April 2024. As a reminder, all hiring programs should be reviewed by counsel for compliance with federal and state law. Dow...
Employment Comparisons and Trends for Men and Women, Minorities and Non-minorities (Updated February 16, 2023)
NALP Bulletin , April 2002 A look at the graduate employment data over the years shows that, historically, women and minorities are less likely to take jobs in law firms and more likely to take jobs with public sector employers. The table below presents data from Employment Report and Salary Survey and Jobs and J.D.'s reports for the Classes of 1982, 1988, 1994, and 2000. Note that minorities are defined as African-Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and H...
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Oct - 21 GRADUATE SURVEY FORM — CLASS OF 2022 NALP EMPLOYMENT REPORT AND SALARY SURVEY Please refer to the “ Frequently Asked Questions ” sheet as you are completing this survey . Name __________________________________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________ Permanent Address ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ E - mail ______________________________________________________ I . DEMOGRAPH...
Class of 2020 (Updated January 13, 2022)
Pre-Order now to save! The full Jobs & JDs report for the Class of 2020 will be available in October. Use this form to pre-order your copy by September 24. --> What We Know About JD Advantage Jobs - An Update for the Class of 2020 NALP Bulletin+, January 2022 New Findings on Disparities in Employment Outcomes Based on Level of Parental Education NALP Bulletin+ , November 2021 Press Release: Employment Outcomes for First-Generation College Students Fall...
Board Meeting Summaries - Archive (Updated August 17, 2023)
July 2022 At the meeting in July, the Board carefully reviewed and approved a $4.5 million budget for the 2023 Fiscal Year. The budget including funding for a fractional CIO to guide NALP in enhancing its technology infrastructure and user experiences. As part of the budget approval, the Board adopted membership dues and educational programming registration fees for 2022-2023: FY 2023 DUES STRUCTURE Law Schools New Law School $850/yr Renewing Law Sc...
What Do We Know About Transgender Law Graduates? (Updated February 8, 2023)
What Do We Know About Transgender Law Graduates?, NALP Bulletin, December 2019
CSO page reorg (Updated April 28, 2022)
NALP provides many resources to assist career services offices in providing servics to students, alumni and employers. CSO Administration Diversity Best Practices: Tips for the Career Services Office (PDF) Employment Report & Salary Survey (ERSS) Info LL.M. Advisor Manual Reciprocity Policies Negotiating Compensation: A Guide to Assisting Law Students and Graduates - 2020 (PDF) Shared Resource Pool Student & Alumni Handouts Survey o...
Class of 2020 National Summary Report (Updated August 26, 2021)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2020, August 2021.
COVID-19 (Updated February 22, 2023)
Looking for resources on handling the COVID-19 pandemic? NALP has compiled a variety of resources. 2020 Pulse Surveys on Impact of COVID-19 In spring/summer of 2020, NALP conducted short "pulse" surveys to learn more about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on US legal employers, law schools, and JD students. These surveys were designed to quantify the rapidly evolving changes occurring in the industry. Read more here . General Resources (public) Many v...
Weekly News Digest for Legal Career Professionals (Updated May 17, 2024)
Each week NALP provides a summary of news articles of interest to legal career professionals.
The Reshuffling of the Legal Profession, Part 1 (Updated October 3, 2022)
By Marcia Pennington Shannon From NALP PDQ September 2022 “During the pandemic, I think a lot of us started thinking - If I’m spending so much time working, what am I doing it for?” – Former mid-level associate in big law who moved to government attorney-advisor position Read the September 2022 edition of NALP Bulletin+ at www.nalp.org/bulletinhome . At a Glance: 20 min read Lawyers, PD and recruiting professionals, and law sc...
Race/Ethnicity & Gender (Updated March 6, 2024)
NALP Research: Race/Ethnicity & Gender
Native American and Alaska Native Law Students and Lawyers (Updated December 6, 2023)
NALP Bulletin + December 2023 In conjunction with the work being undertaken by the Native and Indigenous Peoples in the Legal Profession Task Force, this article looks at Native American and Alaska Native Law Students and Lawyers to determine the latest trends in this cohort and how they compare with other law school graduates. Figures, many newly compiled, are from NALP’s graduate employment survey for the law school graduating classes from 1991 to 2022. The following is an executive sum...
JD Career Advisors Section (Updated February 23, 2024)
The JD Career Advisors Section is for NALP members who have an interest in or responsibility for the career development of law students and alumni. The section will include work groups on developing resources and conference programming on career development. The section will also serve as the home for the CSO Employer Outreach Work Group, and for those interested in JD advantage careers and alumni career services. Join Section Group on NALPconnect 2023-24 Section Chair : Tom Lee, Pen...
Prelaw - What Is the Timetable for Legal Recruitment? (Updated August 24, 2022)
What is the Timetable for Legal Recruitment? (It Happens Faster Than You Think!) One day you are thinking about going to law school. Before you know it, you're a 1L, struggling to figure out what the difference between a holding and dicta. (Don't worry your law professors will explain!) And, then, before your first year is even over, you are going to have to start thinking about your career path. It all happens faster than you think! Before Law School Begins Let everyone in you...
The Reshuffling of the Legal Profession, Part 2: What We Have Learned and What’s Next (Updated October 3, 2022)
By Marcia Pennington Shannon From PDQ in NALP Bulletin+ October 2022 edition AT A GLANCE 20 min read The pandemic led many legal professionals to reconsider their job or career. Firms that offer flexibility and care for their employees will experience higher retention rates. Non-lawyer professional staff should be treated as well as firm clients. None of us have ever lived through a time quite like the past two years as we all exper...
/uploads/PressReleases/NALPLateralHiringPressRelease_7July2021.pdf (Updated July 6, 2021)
1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7 , 2021 Contacts : James G . Leipold , NALP Executive Director , jleipold @ nalp.org Danielle A . Taylor , NALP Director of Research , dtaylor @ nalp.org Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 Overall Lateral Hiring Plummets in 2020 , Lateral Associate Hiring Saw Greatest Declines WASHINGTON , D.C . — After remaining relatively steady in 2019 , lateral hiring fell by more than 30 % ove...
How Teams Can Help Address Burnout in the Legal Profession (Updated January 9, 2023)
By Paula Davis, JD, MAPP NALP Bulletin+ January 2023 At a Glance: 14 min read Burnout has become an even larger issue during the pandemic. Understanding and addressing it is key to the success of your teams. Tips for training programs and addressing the root causes of burnout. The legal profession has begun to address lawyer well-being through training and the application of research on a variety of topics. Througho...
The Demographics of Jobs from 1991-2021 (Updated March 8, 2023)
NALP Bulletin+ March 2023 The ranks of law school graduates have become increasingly diverse in recent decades. If we look back to the Class of 1991, about 88% of graduates in the Class of 1991 were white, according to the American Bar Association (ABA). Years later that number has decreased to just over 65% of graduates in the Class of 2021, representing a corresponding increase in the number of diverse graduating students in this time frame. The ABA’s data can be overlaid with data ...
Public Sector Salary Information (Updated January 8, 2009)
2008 Public Sector & Public Interest Attorney Salary Report ( available in bookstore ) New Findings on Salaries for Public Interest Attorneys (NALP Bulletin , September 2008) — It is evident that salary medians at public sector organizations have increased quite modestly, generally by no more than $5,000, regardless of organization type or experience. It is also evident that experience brings with it relatively modest increases in salary, particularly at civil legal services organ...
NALP's Salary Curve Disaggregated (Updated July 28, 2016)
NALP Bulletin , August 2016 The bimodal distribution of salaries for jobs taken by new law school graduates shows quite clearly that the highest salaries are not the norm. At the time the Class of 2014 graduated, the typical high end of law firm salaries was $160,000, yet this salary accounts for less than one-fifth of salaries reported for full-time jobs lasting at least a year taken by the Class of 2014, while salaries in the $40,000-$65,000 range account for about half the salaries. Non...
/uploads/SAMPLE_NALP2021StudentSurvey_final.pdf (Updated August 31, 2021)
NALP is conducting this survey to help law school career services professionals and law firm recruiting professionals improve the effectiveness of the fall on - campus interview / recruitment process . Your school has agreed to participate in the survey by distributing the survey to you and other members of your 2L class who participated in your school’s summer / fall on - campus interview / recruitment program this year . This includes interviews that took place either in - person or vi...
Tips and Best Practices for Initiating or Supplementing First-Generation Programming for Law Students (Updated January 19, 2022)
Tips and Best Practices for Initiating or Supplementing
First-Generation Programming for Law Students, January 2022
The Demographics of Jobs from 1991-2021 - Part 2 (Updated August 7, 2023)
NALP Bulletin+ July/August 2023 Just as the country has become more diverse with respect to race and ethnicity over the past thirty years, so has the JD enrollment at ABA-accredited law schools, though at a slower pace than the diversification of the overall population. Whereas roughly 13.6% of law students were students of color 1 in 1990-91, by 2021 that figure had climbed to about 32%. Women, who made up less than 43% of law students in 1990-91, have outnumbered men in law school s...
Quick Tip: Handling Salary Negotiations (Updated July 1, 2013)
By Marta Ricardo and Robert White, NALP Bulletin, July 2013.
/uploads/NALPPerspectiveson2020_21LawStudentRecruiting.pdf (Updated July 16, 2021)
National Association for Law Placement PERSPECTIVES ON 2020 - 21 LAW STUDENT RECRUITING © July 2021 National Association for Law Placement , Inc . ( NALP ) 1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 , Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 www.nalp.org NALP values and intentionally strives for a diverse leadership .
Contents Executive Summary & Analysis 4 Introduction 6 Table 1 . Summer Program Outcomes and Fall Recruiting , 1993 - 2020 as Reported by Firms � � � �...
2021 Associate Salary Survey Preorder Form (Updated November 10, 2020)
Survey participants receive a discount when using this form to order.
Salary Trends — A 15-Year Overview (Updated January 2, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , July 2005 The table provides a 15-year overview of law firm starting salaries, based on NALP’s annual Employment Report and Salary Survey (now published as Jobs & JD’s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates ). Median salaries at the largest firms of more than 100 lawyers have remained quite stable for the past five years, in contrast to the mid to late 1990s, when large law firm starting salaries saw dramatic increases. The current stability now resemble...
Salary Trends — A 13-Year Overview (Updated May 18, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , September 2003 The table below provides a 13-year overview of law firm starting salaries, based on NALP's annual Employment Report and Salary Survey (now published as Jobs & J.D.'s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates ). Median salaries at the largest firms of more than 100 attorneys have remained stable for the past few years, in contrast to the mid to late 1990s, when large law firm starting salaries saw dramatic increases. What is being seen now resemb...
Class of 2012 Salary Distribution Curve (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012 The two peaks and deep valley of NALP’s bimodal salary curves that describe the starting salaries of new ...
Class of 2013 Bimodal Salary Curve (Updated July 23, 2014)
July 2013 The two peaks and deep valley of NALP’s bimodal salary curves that describe the starting salaries of new law graduates are by now familiar to industry observers. Changes in the distribution of jobs continue to change the look of the curve. While the curve for the Class of 2013 still has two humps, the percentage of jobs under each peak has shifted slightly again, as has the mean or average salary. Since 2006 NALP has published a graphic illustration of the distribution of start...
Class of 2014 Bimodal Salary Curve (Updated July 28, 2016)
August 2015 Since 2006 NALP has published a graphic illustration of the distribution of starting salaries for new law school graduates, a dramatic bimodal curve illustrating that salaries cluster at either side of the average, and that relatively few salaries are near the average. This year’s curve (below) continues this pattern. Because the distribution of jobs across the various sectors and firm sizes changed very little, and salaries were generally flat, the average or mean also was ess...
Salary Curve - California - Class of 2014 (Updated July 28, 2016)
NALP Bulletin , August 2016 Distribution of Reported Full-time Salaries Taken by the Class of 2014 in California Graph is based on 2,617 salaries reported for full-time jobs lasting a year or more. For purposes of this graph, all reported salaries were rounded to the nearest $5,000. A few salaries above $180,000 and less than $20,000 are excluded from the graph for clarity, but not from the percentage calculations.
Salary Curve - Florida - Class of 2014 (Updated July 28, 2016)
NALP Bulletin , August 2016 Distribution of Reported Full-time Salaries Taken by the Class of 2014 in Florida Graph is based on 1,265 salaries reported for full-time jobs lasting year or more. For purposes of this graph, all reported salaries were rounded to the nearest $5,000. A few salaries above $180,000 and less than $20,000 are excluded from the graph for clarity, but not from the percentage calculations.
Salary Curve - Illinois - Class of 2014 (Updated July 28, 2016)
NALP Bulletin, August 2016 Distribution of Reported Full-time Salaries Taken by the Class of 2014 in Illinois Graph is based on 1,213 salaries reported for full-time jobs lasting a year or more. For purposes of this graph, all reported salaries were rounded to the nearest $5,000. A few salaries above $180,000 and less than $20,000 are excluded from the graph for clarity, but not from the percentage calculations.
Salary Curve - Texas - Class of 2014 (Updated July 28, 2016)
NALP Bulletin , August 2016 Distribution of Reported Full-time Salaries Taken by the Class of 2014 in Texas Graph is based on 1,324 salaries reported for full-time jobs lasting a year or more. For purposes of this graph, all reported salaries were rounded to the nearest $5,000. A few salaries above $180,000 and less than $20,000 are excluded from the graph for clarity, but not from the percentage calculations.
Salary Curve - Washington DC - Class of 2014 (Updated July 28, 2016)
NALP Bulletin , August 2016 Distribution of Reported Full-time Salaries Taken by the Class of 2014 in Washington, DC Graph is based on 1,277 salaries reported for full-time jobs lasting a year or more. For purposes of this graph, all reported salaries were rounded to the nearest $5,000. A few salaries above $180,000 and less than $20,000 are excluded from the graph for clarity, but not from the percentage calculations.
Findings from the 2017 Associate Salary Survey (Updated May 31, 2017)
NALP Bulletin , June 2017 NALP's new 2017 Associate Salary Survey report shows that the overall median first-year salary as of January 1, 2017, was $135,000, the same as in 2015, the year of the most recent previous survey — with both survey years reflecting response pools in which offices in firms of 251+ lawyers accounted for about 70% of responses. The median for firms of 501-700 lawyers was $160,000 as of January 1 of this year, compared with $125,000 in 2015; the median in firms of ...
2021 Associate Salary Survey - Sample Instrument for Review (Updated November 10, 2020)
2021 Associate Salary Survey - Sample Instrument for Review
Salary Trends for New Law Graduates - 1985-2013 (Updated May 15, 2020)
Research: Salary Trends for New Law Graduates - 1985-2013, NALP Bulletin, January 2015
Salary Curve - New York State - Class of 2014 (Updated July 28, 2016)
NALP Bulletin , August 2016 Distribution of Reported Full-time Salaries Taken by the Class of 2014 in New York State Graph is based on 3,474 salaries reported for full-time jobs lasting a year or more. For purposes of this graph, all reported salaries were rounded to the nearest $5,000. A few salaries above $180,000 and less than $20,000 are excluded from the graph for clarity, but not from the percentage calculations.
Findings on First-Year Salaries from the 2021 Associate Salary Survey (Updated May 14, 2021)
NALP Bulletin+ May 2021 NALP's new 2021 Associate Salary Survey report shows that the overall median first-year associate base salary as of January 1, 2021 was $165,000, up $10,000 (6.5%) from 2019, the year of the last biennial survey administration. However, salary improvements were not universal across firm sizes. Firms of 251-500 lawyers and those with more than 700 lawyers saw modest salary gains compared to 2019, with median first-year associate base salaries in each firm size in...
Negotiating Compensation: A Guide to Assisting Law Students and Graduates (Updated November 4, 2020)
November 2020. Students and alumni may need assistance not only in figuring out whether an offered salary is reasonable based on the nature of the employer and its market, but also in identifying points for negotiation and in going through the negotiation process.
/uploads/PressReleases/2014ASSRPressRelease.pdf (Updated October 7, 2014)
1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 T ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 | F ( 202 ) 835 - 1112 www.nalp.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Judith Collins ( jcollins @ nalp.org ) , Director of Research James Leipold ( jleipold @ nalp.org ) , Executive Director Date : October 9 , 2014 Top Salaries for First - Year Associates Remain Flat at $ 160,000 , But Prevalence Shrinks as Large Law Firm Market Becomes Less Homogenous The results of NALP’s 2014 Associate Salary Survey reveal...
/uploads/PressReleases/2010NALPSalPressRelease.pdf (Updated September 3, 2010)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Judith Collins , Director of Research or James Leipold , Executive Director Suite 1110 E - mail : jcollins @ nalp.org or jleipold @ nalp.org 1025 Connecticut Avenue , NW Washington , DC 20036 - 5413 Date : September 9 , 2010 Phone : 202 - 835 - 1001 Fax : 202 - 835 - 1112 Web : www.nalp.org Some Associate Salaries Retreat from Their High But Remain Far Ahead of Salaries for Public Service Attorneys Recent research from NALP reveals that associate salaries ...
Class of 2016 Buying Power Index (Updated April 19, 2018)
April 2018 How much buying power did starting salaries offer? The relative buying power of the dollar in any two cities is very important when comparing the nominal dollar amounts of the salaries in those two cities. Those interested in this topic might, for example, ask about the "buying power" of a salary of $160,000 in Chicago compared to a similar nominal salary in San Francisco. The question becomes, "Which location offers the most buying power?" The answer, and the dollars that a...
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1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 T ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 | F ( 202 ) 835 - 1112 www.nalp.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Judith Collins ( jcollins @ nalp.org ) , Director of Research James Leipold ( jleipold @ nalp.org ) , Executive Director Date : April 16 , 2015 First - Year Associate Salaries at Large Law Firms Have Become Less Homogenous , Though $ 160,000 Continues to Define the Top of the Market The results of NALP’s 2015 Associate Salary Survey show th...
NALP Publishes New Report on Salaries for Public Sector and Public Interest Attorneys (Updated December 21, 2008)
09-01-2006 NALP has recently published the 2006 Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Report , a biennial report that provides salary information for both entry-level and experienced attorneys at public sector and public interest organizations. According to the NALP 2006 Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Report , the median entry-level salary for an attorney at a civil legal services organization is $36,000; an attorney with 11-15 years of e...
New Findings on Salaries for Public Interest Attorneys (Updated August 27, 2010)
NALP Bulletin , September 2010 NALP’s new 2010 Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Survey documents that, in general, practice experience brings with it relatively modest salary increases, particularly within civil legal services organizations, a finding consistent with that of prior reports, the first of which was in 2004. For example, the median entry-level salary for a legal services attorney in the U.S. is $42,000; at 11-15 years of experience the median is $62,550. Pay...
First-Year Associate Salaries at Large Law Firms Have Become Less Homogenous, Though $160,000 Continues to Define the Top of the Market (Updated April 16, 2015)
April 15, 2015 Download a PDF of this press release The results of NALP's 2015 Associate Salary Survey show that although first-year associate salaries of $160,000 are still common at large firms of more than 700 lawyers — especially in large markets — the prevalence of $160,000 salaries at these firms as a whole remains below what it was as recently as 2009, accounting for 39% of the salaries reported by firms of this size as of January 1, 2015. Although this is up from the 27% foun...
Top Salaries for First-Year Associates Remain Flat at $160,000, But Prevalence Shrinks as Large Law Firm Market Becomes Less Homogenous (Updated August 16, 2016)
October 9, 2014 Download a PDF of this press release The results of NALP’s 2014 Associate Salary Survey reveal, among other things, the changing landscape of the largest law firms in the U.S. Although first-year associate salaries of $160,000 are still common at large firms of more than 700 lawyers — especially in large markets — the prevalence of $160,000 salaries at these firms as a whole is far below what it was just five years ago, accounting for just over one-quarter of the sa...
NALP Publishes New Report on Salaries for Public Sector and Public Interest Attorneys (Updated December 9, 2009)
09-18-2008 NALP has recently published the 2008 Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Report , a biennial report that provides salary information for both entry-level and experienced attorneys at public sector and public interest organizations. According to this new report, the median entry-level salary for an attorney at a civil legal services organization is $40,000; an attorney with 11-15 years of experience can expect a salary of $60,000. The median entry-level salary fo...
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1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 14 , 2021 Contacts : James G . Leipold , NALP Executive Director , jleipold @ nalp.org Danielle A . Taylor , NALP Director of Research , dtaylor @ nalp.org Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 First - Year Associate Salaries Show Modest Growth at Large Firms ; 2020 Salary Reductions Put in Place Due to the Pandemic Don’t Have Lasting Impact WASHINGTON , D.C . — The National Associati...
Some Associate Salaries Retreat from Their High But Remain Far Ahead of Salaries for Public Service Attorneys (Updated May 31, 2011)
September 9, 2010 Download a PDF of this press release Recent research from NALP reveals that associate salaries at law firms were largely flat between 2009 and 2010, although median salaries in some markets fell back. During this same period, salaries for lawyers working in the public interest have also been largely flat, and the gap between private sector and public interest lawyer salaries remains as large as ever. NALP's 2010 Associate Salary Survey shows that, although the $160,...
Starting Salaries - Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. For complete salary information for the Class of 2014, see links to additional important documents below. Starting Salaries for Law School Graduates What do new law school graduates earn? Starting salaries for new lawyers vary tremendously. The median salary for Class of 2014 graduates with a full-time jo...
Findings from the NALP/PSJD 2018 Public Service Attorney Salary Survey (Updated May 13, 2020)
NALP Bulletin , June 2018 Among attorneys working in civil legal services organizations, as public defenders or local prosecuting attorneys, or as attorneys in public interest organizations, those providing civil legal services have the lowest median entry-level salary, have the smallest increases in salary based on experience, and have seen the slowest growth in salary levels over the past 14 years. This is a key finding from NALP/PSJD's 2018 Public Service Attorney Salary Survey and is...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Judith Collins , Director of Research or James Leipold , Executive Director 1220 19th Street , NW , Suite 401 E - mail : jcollins @ nalp.org or jleipold @ nalp.org Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : 202 - 835 - 1001 Date : September 20 , 2012 Fax : 202 - 835 - 1112 Web : www.nalp.org Median First - Year Big - Law Associate Salary Slumps to $ 145,000 in 2012 , a Median Last Seen in 2007 Recent research from NALP reveals that , although first - year associ...
Findings on First-Year Salaries from the 2019 Associate Salary Survey (Updated May 30, 2019)
NALP Bulletin , June 2019 NALP's new 2019 Associate Salary Survey report shows that the overall median first-year base salary as of January 1, 2019, was $155,000, up $20,000 (14.8%) from 2017, the year of the most recent previous survey administration. In both survey years law firms of 251+ lawyers accounted for about 70% of responses. Median first-year base salaries in 2019 for firm sizes of 51-100 lawyers ($115,000), 101-250 lawyers ($115,000), and 501-700 lawyers ($160,000) were flat...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Judith Collins , Director of Research or James Leipold , Executive Director 1220 19th Street , NW , Suite 401 E - mail : jcollins @ nalp.org or jleipold @ nalp.org Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : 202 - 835 - 1001 Date : October 18 , 2012 Fax : 202 - 835 - 1112 Web : www.nalp.org New Public Interest and Public Sector Salary Figures from NALP Show Little Growth Since 2004 According to new research from NALP , the median entry - level salary for a legal ...
Starting Salaries - Class of 2011 (Updated February 5, 2013)
Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . January 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. For complete salary information for the Class of 2011, see links to additional important documents below. What do new law school graduates earn? Starting salaries for new lawyers vary...
Starting Salaries - Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. For complete salary information for the Class of 2012, see links to additional important documents below. What do new law school graduates earn? Starting salaries for new lawyers ...
New Research on Attorney Salaries at Public Sector and Public Interest Organizations (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , October 2006. NALP has recently published the 2006 Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Report . This biennial report, first published in 2004, provides salary information for both entry-level and experienced attorneys at public sector and public interest organizations. Excerpts of the findings, along with comparisons of those reported in 2004, are shown in Table 1. It is evident that salaries at these organizations have increased only modestly, by a few...
NALP's Public Sector & Public Interest Salary Report Turns Ten! (Updated July 14, 2014)
The 10-year span of NALP's Public Sector & Public Interest Attorney Salary Survey documents public interest salaries
What Do New Law Graduates Who Go into Private Practice Earn? A 25-Year Retrospective (Updated September 28, 2018)
October 2018, NALP Bulletin It does not take more than a quick look at the table below to see that starting salaries at the largest law firms have increased far more than at smaller firms. The difference is stark: whereas the median salaries at the largest firms (251+ attorneys) have gone up by 157%, at the smallest firms the median has not even doubled. This discrepancy has contributed to the evolution of the bi-modal nature of the salary distribution. (For more information, see " Salari...
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1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 T ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 | F ( 202 ) 835 - 1112 www.nalp.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Judith Collins ( jcollins @ nalp.org ) , Director of Research James Leipold ( jleipold @ nalp.org ) , Executive Director Date : September 18 , 2013 Associate Salaries Bobble But Remain Essentially Flat Starting associate salaries at large law firms have remained essentially flat since 2007 , despite some erosion of the prevalence of $ 160,0...
New Public Interest and Public Sector Salary Figures from NALP Show Little Growth Since 2004 (Updated October 17, 2012)
October 18, 2012 Download a PDF of this press release According to new research from NALP, the median entry-level salary for a legal services attorney is not quite $43,000; an attorney with 11-15 years of experience can expect a salary of about $65,000. The median entry-level salary for public defenders is about $50,500; with 11-15 years of experience the median is $78,600. The salary progression for local prosecuting attorneys is similar, starting at $50,000 and progressing to almost ...
Press Release: New Public Service Attorney Salary Figures from NALP Show Slow Growth Since 2004 (Updated July 9, 2018)
Press Release on 2018 Public Service Attorney Salary Survey, July 9, 2018.
New Findings on Salaries for Public Interest Attorneys (Updated January 12, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , September 2008 This month NALP is publishing the 2008 Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Report . This biennial report, first published in 2004, provides salary information for both entry-level and experienced attorneys at public sector and public interest organizations. This year's survey brought greatly increased participation across all types of organizations, an increase that may be attributable in part to a heightened awareness of the survey in th...
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1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC20036 - 2405 T ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 | F ( 202 ) 835 - 1112 www.nalp.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Sarah Ramirez ( sramirez @ nalp.org ) , ( 202 ) 835 - 2005 Date : June 1 , 2017 Associate Salaries Rise in Some Markets , But National Median Remains Unchanged WASHINGTON , DC — The ( NALP ) today released its National Association for Law Placement 2017 Associate Salary report , showing that the overall median first - year salary as of Janua...
NALP Publishes New Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Research (Updated December 21, 2008)
08-31-2004 NALP announces publication of new research that for the first time documents salary information for both entry-level and experienced attorneys at public sector and public interest organizations. According to the 2004 Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Report , the median entry-level salary for an attorney at a civil legal services organization is $34,000; an attorney with 11-15 years of experience can expect a salary of about $52,000. The median ...
Median First-Year Big-Law Associate Salary Slumps to $145,000 in 2012, a Median Last Seen in 2007 (Updated March 1, 2013)
September 20, 2012 Download a PDF of this press release Recent research from NALP reveals that, although first-year associate salaries of $160,000 are still widespread at large law firms of more than 700 lawyers — especially in large markets — that figure no longer represents the prevailing salary, resulting in a median for this group of firms as a whole of $145,000, a median figure last seen in 2007. In the intervening years at least half the first-year salaries in firms of this size ...
First-Year Associate Salaries on the Rise at Large Law Firms (Updated May 21, 2019)
May 22, 2019 Contact: Allison E. Beard, Director of Communications and Member Engagement Email: abeard@nalp.org Phone: 202-835-2618 WASHINGTON, DC — The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) today released its 2019 Associate Salary Survey report , showing 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 su...
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1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 www.nalp.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Allison E . Beard , Director of Communications & Member Engagement abeard @ nalp.org , 202 - 835 - 1001 Date : May 22 , 2019 First - Year Associate Salaries on the Rise at Large Law Firms Washington ( DC ) — The ( NALP ) today released its 2019 National Association for Law Placement report , showing that the overall median first - year salary as of Janu...
Associate Salaries Bobble But Remain Essentially Flat (Updated September 18, 2013)
September 18, 2013 Download a PDF of this press release Starting associate salaries at large law firms have remained essentially flat since 2007, despite some erosion of the prevalence of $160,000 as the norm. New research from NALP reveals that first-year associate salaries of $160,000 are still widespread at large law firms of more than 700 lawyers — especially in large markets — and became somewhat more prevalent in 2013 compared with 2012, as a result pushing the median for thi...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Judith Collins , Director of Research or James Leipold , Executive Director 1220 19th Street , NW , Suite 401 E - mail : jcollins @ nalp.org or jleipold @ nalp.org Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : 202 - 835 - 1001 Date : September 8 , 2011 Fax : 202 - 835 - 1112 Web : www.nalp.org Law Firm Associate Salaries Changed Little From Last Year Recent research from NALP reveals that associate salaries were largely flat in 2011 compared with 2010 , with the $ ...
New Research on Attorney Salaries at Public Sector and Public Interest Organizations (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , October 2004 NALP recently published a new research report, the 2004 Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Report , that for the first time documents salary information for both entry-level and experienced attorneys at public sector and public interest organizations. Excerpts of the reported findings are shown in Table 1 below. These findings are based on a 2004 nationwide survey conducted by NALP among civil legal services organizations; offices...
Employer Types with Average Salary Information - Class of 2011 (Updated February 5, 2013)
January 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2011 Note : The colored areas in the chart above represent the percent of all jobs by employer type for which th...
Starting Salaries - Class of 2018 (Updated February 27, 2020)
February 2020 Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. What do new law school graduates earn? Starting salaries for new lawyers vary tremendously. The median salary for Class of 2018 graduates with a full-time job lasting at least a ye...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Judith Collins , Director of Research or James Leipold , Executive Director E - mail : jcollins @ nalp.org or jleipold @ nalp.org 1220 19th Street , NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : 202 - 835 - 1001 Date : July 12 , 2012 Fax : 202 - 835 - 1112 Web : www.nalp.org Median Private Practice Starting Salaries for the Class of 2011 Plunge as Private Practice Jobs Continue to Erode The median starting salary for new law school graduates from the...
Law Firm Associate Salaries Changed Little from Last Year (Updated January 18, 2012)
September 8, 2011 Download a PDF of this press release Recent research from NALP reveals that associate salaries were largely flat in 2011 compared with 2010, with the $160,000 salary for first-year associates still prevailing at large firms in a number of markets, including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC. In other markets, such as Boston and San Francisco, the median remained at $145,000, after reaching $160,000 in 2009 and then falling back to $145,000 in 2010. E...
Entry-Level Associate Salaries Again Remain Stable in Large Firms (8/8/03) (Updated December 22, 2008)
08-08-2003 NALP has completed its ninth annual comprehensive survey of associate compensation with the 2003 Associate Salary Survey report. A total of 578 offices provided salary information as of April 1, 2003. With 25% of respondents representing firms of 50 or fewer attorneys and 25% representing firms of more than 500 attorneys, the survey report sheds valuable light on the breadth of salary differentials among employers of varying sizes. The median salary for first-y...
Salaries Up at Largest Firms for First Time Since 2000 (Updated December 21, 2008)
08-01-2006 According to the 2006 Associate Salary Survey just released by NALP, the median, and in fact prevailing, first-year associate salary at firms of 501+ lawyers rose to $135,000 this year. This represents an increase of $10,000 over the median figure for the previous five years — a figure that was steady at $125,000 from 2000 through 2005. At small firms of 25 or fewer lawyers, the median was unchanged at $67,000. The median starting salary for firms of all sizes ...
Salaries at Largest Firms Peak in 2009 (Updated May 31, 2011)
July 30, 2009 NALP has just released its 2009 Associate Salary Survey . With salary information collected as of April 1, 2009, this year’s report reflects what is likely to be the apogee of large firm salaries for the foreseeable future, and represents the culmination of increases since 2006. The prevailing salary at the largest firms in many cities, including Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Orange County, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Washingto...
Median Private Practice Starting Salaries for the Class of 2011 Plunge as Private Practice Jobs Continue to Erode (Updated July 11, 2012)
July 12, 2012 Download this press release as PDF The median starting salary for new law school graduates from the Class of 2011 fell 5% from that for 2010 and has fallen nearly 17% just since 2009. The mean salary fell 6.5% compared with 2010, and since 2009 the mean has plunged almost 16% according to new research released today from NALP. The research also reveals that the median starting private practice salary fell over 18% from 2010 and since 2009 has fallen an astonishing 35%. Th...
Salaries for New Lawyers: An Update on Where We Are and How We Got Here (Updated August 3, 2012)
NALP Bulletin , August 2012 Starting with the Class of 2006, one of the ways NALP has documented salary information for law school graduating classes is with a picture — a picture which shows very clearly that the salary distribution for law graduates has two distinct peaks, one in the $40,000 to $65,000 range, and one reflecting the big-law salary (or salaries) typical for that year. The full range generally spans from less than $20,000 to over $200,000. Although such a range of salaries ...
Entry-Level Associate Salaries Continue to Remain Stable in Large Firms (8/31/04) (Updated December 21, 2008)
08-31-2004 NALP has completed its tenth annual comprehensive survey of associate compensation with the 2004 Associate Salary Survey report. A total of 599 offices provided salary information as of April 1, 2004. With 18% of respondents representing firms of 50 or fewer attorneys and 27% representing firms of more than 500 attorneys, the survey report sheds valuable light on the breadth of salary differentials among employers of varying sizes. The median salary for first-y...
Salaries at Largest Firms Continue to Rise Rapidly (Updated December 3, 2008)
09-14-2007 According to the 2007 Associate Salary Survey just released by NALP, the median, and in fact prevailing, first-year associate salary at firms of 501+ lawyers rose to $145,000 as of April 1, 2007, an increase of $10,000 in just one year. This increase, on the heels of a similar increase between 2005 and 2006, contrasts with a period of relative stability from 2000 to 2005. And, even as the median stood at $145,000, salaries as high as $160,000 were already being reported by ...
Entry-Level Lawyer Salaries Remarkably Stable (Updated January 9, 2009)
08-08-2005 NALP Survey Details Private Practice Compensation Ranges NALP announces publication of its annual comprehensive survey of associate compensation, the 2005 Associate Salary Survey report. A total of 573 offices provided salary information as of April 1, 2005. With 17% of respondents representing firms of 50 or fewer lawyers and 30% representing firms of more than 500 lawyers, the survey report sheds valuable light on the breadth of salary differentials a...
Starting Salaries Re-Examined: A Critical Look at Averages (Updated October 13, 2010)
NALP Bulletin , October 2010 Salaries earned by new law school graduates have been well-known and documented for many years. Even as the focus has often been on the high end of the scale, career services offices have seen and tried to convey the broader picture. How this broader picture is conveyed changed with the class of 2006, when NALP introduced another picture of salaries, literally, with what has since come to be referred to as the bimodal curve, a graphic distribution of reporte...
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© 2017 NALP All rights reserved What to Do When It’s Time to Hire a New Attorney A resource for smaller firms
© 2017 NALP What to Do When It’s Time to Hire a New Attorney 2 Introduction For smaller law firms , hiring decisions are a signif Identifying an Applicant Pool and the Hiring Process The career services offices at law schools located in your region are the best resource to help you iden Many state and local bar associations can also as Most employers conduct at least two round...
Salaries at Largest Firms Up Again (Updated December 10, 2009)
08-21-2008 According to the 2008 Associate Salary Survey just released by NALP, the median, and in fact prevailing, first-year associate salary at firms of 701+ lawyers rose to $160,000 this year, an increase of $15,000 in just one year. This increase continues a pattern of increases that started in early 2006, and contrasts with a period of relative stability from 2000 to 2005. At small firms of 25 or fewer lawyers, the median was $73,000, compared with $68,000 in 2007. The median start...
Market for Law Graduates Changes with Recession: Class of 2009 Faced New Challenges (Updated July 22, 2010)
NALP Press Release, July 22, 2010
Market for Law Graduates Changes with Recession: Class of 2009 Faced New Challenges (Updated September 10, 2014)
July 22, 2010 Download a PDF of this press release The Jobs & JDs report for the Class of 2009 just released by NALP marks the 36th consecutive year in which NALP has gathered information on the employment status and earnings of recent law school JD graduates, and the new report also introduces significant changes in the way NALP analyzes and presents the information gathered. New or different features of the report include the introduction of “adjusted” salary means; more repor...
Entry-Level Associate Salaries Rise Sharply (Updated January 5, 2009)
08-28-2000 The National Association for Law Placement has completed its sixth comprehensive survey of associate compensation with the 2000 Associate Salary Survey report. Over 450 offices (30% with 50 or fewer attorneys and a similar percentage — 35% — with more than 250 attorneys) provided salary information as of April 1, 2000. For the first time, this annual survey includes data on salaries for staff attorneys and law clerks in addition to associates from summer progra...
Full-Time Salaries for Jobs Lasting at Least One Year, by Employer or Job Type - Class of 2011 (Updated February 5, 2013)
January 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2011 Full-time Salaries for Jobs Lasting at Least One Year, by Employer or Job Type — Class of 2011 ...
Full-time Salaries for Jobs Lasting at Least One Year, by Employer or Job Type - Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012 Full-time Salaries for Jobs Lasting at Least One Year, by Employer or Job Type — Class of 2012 ...
The NALP Salary Curve for the Class of 2011 (Updated February 4, 2013)
July 2012 The two peaks and deep valley of NALP’s bimodal salary curves that describe the starting salaries of new law graduates are by now familiar to industry observers. The impact of the recession continues to change the look of the curve. While the curve for the Class of 2011 still has two humps, the numbers of jobs under each peak has shifted again, as has the mean or average salary. Since 2006 NALP has published a graphic illustration of the distribution of starting salaries for ...
Employer Types with Average Salary Information - Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012
Employer Types with Average Salary Information - Class of 2014 (Updated April 8, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014
Employer Types with Average Salary for Class of 2018 (Updated February 27, 2020)
February 2020 Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates.
Starting Salary Distribution for Class of 2008 More Dramatic than Previous Years (Updated September 10, 2014)
June 2009 The salary distribution for the Class of 2008 presents the most dramatic bimodal distribution yet of starting salaries for recent graduates from law school. The sharp spike on the right reflects the fact that in 2008 the prevailing starting salary at large law firms was nearly uniformly $160,000. By contrast, the starting salary distribution for the class of 2007, while reflecting a spike at $160,000, also had an elbow that extended out over $145,000. ( Click here to see the ...
Salaries for New Lawyers: An Update on Where We Are and How We Got Here (Updated August 1, 2012)
By Judith N. Collins, NALP Bulletin, August 2012.
The NALP Salary Curve Morphs with the Class of 2010 (Updated August 4, 2011)
August 2011 The two peaks and deep valley of NALP’s bimodal salary curves that describe the starting salaries of new law graduates are by now familiar to industry observers. The impact of the recession has changed the look of the curve somewhat for the Class of 2010. While the beast still has two humps, the number of jobs under each peak has been redistributed so that there are now more jobs represented under the left-hand, or lower paying, peak and fewer jobs represented under the right-h...
Reported Salaries by City and Firm Size for Full-Time Jobs Taken by the Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012 Reported Salaries by City for Full-Time Jobs in Firms of 2-10 Lawyers Taken by the Class of 2012 Repor...
How Much Do Law Firms Pay Associates? A Look Back at 20 Years of Findings from the NALP Associate Salary Survey (Updated September 29, 2014)
NALP Bulletin , October 2014 This marks the 20th year of NALP’s publication of the Associate Salary Survey . The survey reports on salaries for first- through eighth-year associates, but the focus of this article is on what two decades of data tell us about starting salaries for law graduates going into private practice and about how these salaries have changed. Over the past 20 years law firms of all sizes have increased their first-year salaries, but the percentage increase at the l...
Salaries by Employer Type - Class of 2011 (Updated February 5, 2013)
January 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2011 Median Reported Salaries by Employer Type in the 20 Cities Providing the Most Jobs to the Class of 2011 ...
Full-Time Salaries for Jobs Lasting at Least One Year, by Employer or Job Type — Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014 Employer or job type Median salary Average salary** The middle half of sa...
Entry-Level Associate Salaries Show No Sign of Leveling Off (Updated January 5, 2009)
08-30-1999 The National Association for Law Placement has completed its fifth comprehensive survey of associate compensation with the 1999 Associate Salary Survey report. Over 660 offices (30% of which had 50 or fewer attorneys) provided salary information as of April 1, 1999. The median salary for first-year associates ranged from $51,000 in firms of 2-25 attorneys to $85,000 in firms of 251 attorneys or more, with a first-year median for all participating firms of $70...
Salary Distribution Curve for the Class of 2009 Shows Relatively Few Salaries Were Close to the Mean (Updated August 2, 2011)
July 2010 The prevalence of high salaries in large law firms, in concert with the relatively stable salaries among other employers, continues to result in a salary distribution with two distinct peaks, as shown in the graph below: one at the $160,000 level and one in the $40,000-$65,000 range. Relatively few salaries are near either the median or the mean. This distribution would maintain its two-peak nature, although with a less extreme peak on the right and a bulkier peak on the left, eve...
Class of 2011 (Updated April 19, 2013)
Detailed Analysis of JD Advantage Jobs (April 2013) — Starting with the law school Class of 2011, a new term of art entered our lexicon — "JD Advantage." It is a phrase that NALP and the ABA use to describe a category of jobs for which bar passage is not required but for which a JD degree provides a distinct advantage. Nearly one in seven jobs taken by the Class of 2011 was reported as a JD Advantage job. In numbers this translates to more than 5,200 jobs. These jobs were most common by far ...
Reported Salaries by City and Firm Size for Full-Time Jobs Taken by the Class of 2011 (Updated February 5, 2013)
January 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2011 Reported Salaries by City for Full-Time Jobs in Firms of 2-10 Lawyers Reported Salaries by City for Full-Time...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Judith Collins , Director of Research or James Leipold , Executive Director E - mail : jcollins @ nalp.org or jleipold @ nalp.org Suite 1110 1025 Connecticut Avenue , NW Washington , DC 20036 - 5413 Date : July 7 , 2011 Phone : 202 - 835 - 1001 Fax : 202 - 835 - 1112 Web : www.nalp.org Class of 2010 Graduates Saddled with Falling Average Starting Salaries as Private Practice Jobs Erode The median starting salary for new law school graduates from the Class ...
Entry-Level Associate Salaries Escalate Dramatically (Updated May 14, 2020)
09-02-1998 The National Association for Law Placement has completed its fourth comprehensive survey of associate compensation with the 1998 Associate Salary Survey report. Over 700 firms (nearly one- third of which had 50 or fewer attorneys) provided salary information as of January 1, 1998. Because of the rapidly changing market, a supplemental survey of the larger firms was conducted in August 1998 to compile the most current information on base salaries for Class of 199...
What Do New Lawyers Earn? A 15-Year Retrospective 1994-2008 (Updated July 29, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , August 2009 The table below provides a 15-year overview of law firm starting salaries based on NALP's annual graduate employment survey (now published as Jobs & JD's: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates ). The figures in this table thus reflect actual salaries reported by law school graduates obtaining jobs in private practice; however, because this information is collected as of the February 15th following graduation, it is current through the Class of 2008. ...
Full-time Salaries for Jobs Lasting at Least One Year, by Employer or Job Type - Class of 2018 (Updated February 27, 2020)
February 2020 Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Employer or job type Median salary Average salary** The middle half of salaries fall in a range from: Most frequently reported salary*** Percentage of...
Salaries for New Lawyers: How Did We Get Here? (Updated June 26, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , January 2008 The range of salaries earned by new law school graduates has been well known and documented for many years. Even as students and the media have tended to focus on the high end of the scale, career services offices have seen and conveyed the broader picture. NALP's annual graduate employment survey documents this salary picture in many ways each year. Earlier this year, NALP literally depicted salary information with a picture — a picture which show...
How Much Do Law Firms Pay New Associates? A 16-Year Retrospective (Updated October 21, 2011)
NALP Bulletin , October 2011 Since the mid-1990s law firms of all sizes have increased their first-year associate salaries, but the percentage increase at the largest firms is double that of the smallest firms, despite the fact that some, but by no means all, large firms in some markets backed off from starting associates at $160,000. Table 1 provides a 16-year overview of law firm starting salaries based on NALP's annual Associate Salary Survey . The figures in these tables thus reflec...
Press Release: Employment Rate for New Law School Graduates Rises as the Overall Number of Jobs, Class Size, Continue to Shrink (Updated August 2, 2017)
Press Release on Employment for the Class of 2016 - Selected Findings. August 2, 2017.
Entry-Level Associate Salaries Remain Stable in Large Firms (8/19/02) (Updated December 22, 2008)
08-19-2002 NALP has completed its eighth annual comprehensive survey of associate compensation with the 2002 Associate Salary Survey report. Over 640 offices representing large and small firms alike (about 30% of responses were from firms of 50 or fewer attorneys, and one quarter were from firms of more than 500 attorneys) provided salary information as of April 1, 2002. The median salary for first-year associates ranged from $53,500 in firms of 2-25 attorneys to $118,00...
Entry-Level Associate Salaries Remain Stable in Large Firms (8/24/01) (Updated December 22, 2008)
08-24-2001 NALP has completed its seventh annual comprehensive survey of associate compensation with the 2001 Associate Salary Survey report. Over 650 offices representing large and small firms alike (about one quarter of responses were from firms of 50 or fewer attorneys, and a similar percentage were from firms of more than 500 attorneys) provided salary information as of April 1, 2001. The median salary for first-year associates ranged from $60,000 in firms of 2-25 att...
Class of 2014 (Updated January 31, 2017)
NALP's Salary Curve Disaggregated — Class of 2014 ( NALP Bulletin , August 2016) — The bimodal nature of the salary curve has been traced back to 2000, when many large firms upped their starting salary to $125,000. But the national curve does not mean that a similar curve is in place when looking at distributions at the state level. Class of 2014 Bimodal Salary Curve — Since 2006 NALP has published a graphic illustration of the distribution of starting salaries for new law school gra...
Class of 2010 Graduates Saddled with Falling Average Starting Salaries as Private Practice Jobs Erode (Updated January 18, 2012)
July 7, 2011 Download a PDF of this press release The median starting salary for new law school graduates from the Class of 2010 fell 13% and the mean salary fell 10% according to new research released today from NALP. The research also reveals that aggregate starting private practice salaries fell an astonishing 20% for this class. These are among the most dramatic findings that were released this week from NALP's Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2010. STARTING...
What Do New Lawyers Earn? A 15-Year Retrospective as Reported by Law School Graduates (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , September 2007 The table below provides a 15-year overview of law firm starting salaries based on NALP's annual graduate employment survey (now published as Jobs & JD's: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates ). The figures in this table thus reflect actual salaries reported by law school graduates obtaining jobs in private practice rather than salary figures reported by law firms and published in the Associate Salary Survey . Also note that, because...
Findings from NALP's Associate Salary Survey — A Historical Perspective 1996-2001 (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , September 2001 Changes in how law firms determine associates' eligibility for bonuses and, of course, in starting salaries are evident based on NALP's Associate Salary Survey reports from 1996 through 2001. As Table 1 shows, firms are more likely now than they were in 1996 to use "meeting goals or targets" as one means of determining eligibility for bonuses. Larger firms remain more likely to use this criterion than smaller firms. Eligibility based on discret...
Highlights of NALP's 2009 Law School Career Services Survey (Updated December 12, 2016)
NALP Bulletin , November 2009 During this past summer, NALP conducted its biennial Law School Career Services Survey, continuing a practice of benchmarking law school career services staffing and facilities that dates back almost as long as NALP has existed. A total of 129 law schools responded to the survey, but not all answered all questions, particularly with respect to salaries. Table 1 highlights some key findings from the 2009 survey. For example, the median salary for the primary...
How Much Do Law Firms Pay New Associates? A 12-year Retrospective as Reported by Firms (Updated September 1, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , October 2007 Tables 1 and 2 provide a 12-year overview of law firm starting salaries, based on NALP's annual Associate Salary Survey . The figures in these tables thus reflect salary figures reported by law firms, rather than salaries reported by law school graduates obtaining jobs in private practice. (Salary figures reported by graduates were the topic of the September 2007 NALP Bulletin article " What Do New Lawyers Earn? A 15-year Retrospective as Reporte...
Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Private Practice Taken by the Class of 2011 (Updated February 5, 2013)
January 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2011 Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Private Practice Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Job...
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1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct . 21 , 2020 Contacts : James G . Leipold , NALP Executive Director , jleipold @ nalp.org Danielle A . Taylor , NALP Director of Research , dtaylor @ nalp.org Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 NALP’s New Employment and Salary Report Highlights Disparities in Outcomes by Race and Ethnicity WASHINGTON , D.C . — New employment findings from the National Association for Law Placement , I...
Press Release: Class of 2019 Attains Highest Employment Rate in 12 Years as Uncertainty Looms for Class of 2020 (Updated August 12, 2020)
Press Release on Employment for the Class of 2019 - Selected Findings. August 12, 2020.
Employment and Salary Trends for New Law Graduates, 1985-2000 (Updated May 18, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , June 2001 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2000 was 91.5% of graduates for whom employment status was known as of February 15, 2001. Over three-quarters of graduates for whom employment status was known had obtained legal full-time jobs. As the first table below shows, 2000 was the seventh consecutive year of increased rates of legal full-time employment. The table further shows that the percentage of other jobs — those not directly involved in the practi...
Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Business, Government, Public Interest, and Judicial Clerkship Positions Taken by the Class of 2011 (Updated February 5, 2013)
January 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2011 Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Business Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Go...
Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Private Practice Taken by the Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012 Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Private Practice Taken by the Class of 2012 Reported S...
Press Release: Class of 2018 Employment Outcomes Approach Pre-Recession Levels (Updated July 31, 2019)
Press Release on Employment for the Class of 2018 - Selected Findings. July 31, 2019.
Prelaw - How Can NALP Resources Help Me Make Good Choices? (Updated August 28, 2012)
When professors, students and the media want data about jobs for lawyers, NALP is the go-to source. NALP collects, analyzes and reports information on how and when lawyers get jobs, where they work, what they are paid and much more. Many of NALP's resources are free. Those who want even more information may pay for books and other resources. NALP Research & Statistics NALP is the premier resource for information on legal employment and recruiting. Analysis of data sources su...
Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Business, Government, Public Interest and Judicial Clerkship Positions (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012 Reported Salaries by State or Full-Time Jobs in Business Taken by the Class of 2012 Reported Sal...
Law School Class of 2012 Finds More Jobs, Starting Salaries Rise - But Large Class Size Hurts Overall Employment Rate (Updated June 20, 2013)
June 20, 2013 Download a PDF of this press release According to Selected Findings from the Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2012 released today by NALP, the overall employment rate for new law school graduates fell to 84.7%. Even though the overall number of jobs obtained by this class was higher than the number of jobs obtained by the previous class, the Class of 2012 was also bigger. When coupled with fewer law-school funded positions, this resulted in the overall...
Legal Recruitment — Then and Now (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , October 2002 A comparison of selected indicators reported in the 1992, 1996, and 2002 Surveys of Legal Personnel are shown in the table below. Although more individuals with primary responsibility for recruiting now have a J.D. degree, levels of experience in the field as a whole have declined, while the median salary has increased more than 45% in the same ten-year period. The extent of marketing/public relations duties is similar to what it was ten years ago, b...
Class of 2012 Employment and Salary Findings Show First Positive Signs Since 2008 (Updated September 10, 2014)
By James G. Leipold and Judith N. Collins NALP Bulletin , August 2013 Make no mistake about it. The Class of 2012 had a tough time in the job market, as did the Class of 2011 before it, and, future research will show, that will be true for the Class of 2013 as well. But for the first time since the onset of the Great Recession in 2008, there were some positive signs that some of the most difficult aspects of the post-recession job market are beginning to ease, at least a little. Gradu...
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April 16 – 19 N As of 3 / 25 / 24 BOSTO
NALP in Boston : Anchoring the Profession April 16 - 19 , 2024 The NALP Annual Education Conference is the single largest , most comprehensive , and most well - respected educational program in the legal careers profession . The content provides much to choose from — over 90 concurrent sessions and 2 plenary sessions — covering all areas of our profession from recruiting and career counseling to professional development , law student PD , divers...
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2023 Report on Diversity in U.S . Law Firms NALP strives for a diverse , equitable , and inclusive legal profession . © January 2024 National Association for Law Placement , Inc . ( NALP ) 1220 19th Street NW , Suite 510 Washington , DC 20036 - 2425 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 www.nalp.org
2023 Report on Diversity TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
OLD DO NOT EDIT Welcome New NALP Members! (Updated August 21, 2014)
Below you will find helpful resources to get you better acquainted with your new NALP membership. To learn more about your NALP membership benefits download the benefits flyer . To access all members-only resources, members must first login to the new NALP Member Portal using your email address and the temporary password: Password1 (case sensitive). You will be prompted to create a new password immediately after the initial login. Get Involved As a membership organizati...
Survey on Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) - 2016 Update (Updated July 1, 2016)
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Press Release: Law School Class of 2012 Finds More Jobs, Starting Salaries Rise — But Large Class Size Hurts Overall Employment Rate (Updated June 20, 2013)
Press Release on Employment for the Class of 2012 - Selected Findings. June 20, 2013
Employment Rate for New Law School Graduates Rises by More Than Two Percentage Points - But Overall Number of Jobs Falls as the Size of the Graduating Class Shrinks (Updated July 30, 2015)
July 30, 2015 Download a PDF of this press release According to "Selected Findings from the Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2014" released today by NALP, for the first time since 2007 and the onset of the Great Recession, the employment rate for law school graduates has risen, from just 84.5% for the Class of 2013 to 86.7% for the Class of 2014, a jump of 2.2 percentage points. This good news comes, however, with a few caveats. First, and most importantly, the e...
Employment of New Law Graduates Highest Since 1990 (Updated May 14, 2020)
07-07-1998 The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) has announced publication of the Class of 1997 Employment Report and Salary Survey , the only comprehensive study available on the employment experiences of recent law graduates. This 24th consecutive report documents only the fourth measurable increase in the employment rate of new law graduates since 1987. An increase in full-time legal employment accounts for most of the increase. The median starting salary for...
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Understanding How Small Firms Hire Download this resource at www.nalp.org © 2017 NALP All rights reserved
© 2017 NALP Understanding How Small Firms Hire 2 Introduction Small law firms comprise a large percentage of lawyers in private practice . There are significant differences between how small and mid - sized firms recruit and how large firms recruit . Knowing these differences can help you conduct a productive job search , interview effectively , and evaluate the terms of an offer ...
How Much Do Law Firms Pay New Associates? A 14-Year Retrospective as Reported by Firms (Updated December 7, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , September 2009 In the last 14 years, law firms of all sizes have increased their first-year salaries, with salaries more than doubling in the largest firms. Tables 1 and 2 provide a 14-year overview of law firm starting salaries, based on NALP's annual Associate Salary Survey. The figures in these tables thus reflect salary figures reported by law firms, rather than salaries reported by law school graduates obtaining jobs in private practice. (The school-reported figu...
For Second Year in a Row New Grads Find More Jobs, Starting Salaries Rise — But Overall Unemployment Rate Rises with Historically Large Graduating Class (Updated August 16, 2016)
June 19, 2014 Download a PDF of this press release According to Selected Findings from the Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2013 released today by NALP, despite two years of growth in the number of jobs obtained by law school graduates, the overall employment rate for new law school graduates fell for the sixth year in a row, to 84.5%. Even though the total number of jobs obtained by this class was somewhat higher than the number of jobs obtained by the previous cl...
Law School Career Services — Then and Now (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , November 2005 NALP's practice of benchmarking the staffing and facilities of law school career services offices dates almost as far back as NALP itself. The oldest such effort existing in NALP's archives, entitled the Law School Placement Personnel Survey, was published in May 1975, and covered the 1974-75 academic year. The 1975 document, compiled by a NALP volunteer, typed on a typewriter, with supplemental lines and boxes drawn in by hand, reported findings ba...
Press Release: Employment Rate for New Law School Graduates Rises by More Than Two Percentage Points — But Overall Number of Jobs Falls as the Size of the Graduating Class Shrinks (Updated July 30, 2015)
Press Release on Employment for the Class of 2014 - Selected Findings. July 30, 2015.
Employment of New Law Graduates Exceeds 90% for Second Year in a Row (Updated December 22, 2008)
07-23-2001 NALP announces the publication of Jobs & J.D.'s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates — Class of 2000 , the only comprehensive study available on the employment experiences of recent law graduates. This 27th consecutive report documents the seventh successive increase in the employment rate of new law graduates. An increase in full-time legal employment accounts for most of the increase. At the same time, although full-time employment in other types ...
Median Reported Salaries for Full-Time Jobs - Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014 Source: NALP Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2014
Median Reported Salaries by Employer Type in the 20 Cities Providing the Most Jobs to the Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012 Median Reported Salaries by Employer Type in the 20 Cities Providing the Most Jobs to the C...
Employment of New Law Graduates Remains Relatively Strong Despite Small Downturn (Updated December 22, 2008)
07-24-2002 NALP announces the publication of Jobs & J.D.'s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates - Class of 2001 , the only comprehensive study available on the employment experiences of recent law graduates. This 28th consecutive report documents the first decrease in the employment rate of new law graduates since 1993, with a figure of 90% of graduates for whom employment status was known. This compares with a figure of 91.5% for the prior year, and is eviden...
Summary Salary Findings from the 2015 Law School Career Services Survey (Updated December 12, 2016)
NALP Bulletin , October 2015 NALP's biennial Law School Career Services Survey was conducted earlier this year, using a survey instrument that was considerably shorter than in prior years and that focused on the topics of greatest interest to members — salaries and staffing levels. Surveys returned by 102 schools revealed that salaries have been essentially flat since the 2013 survey. The median salary for the primary career services professional was $88,000 as of May 1, 2015, and the a...
Webinar Slides: Class of 2020 ERSS Data Collection Process (Updated November 10, 2020)
November 2020. An overview of the NALP Class of 2020 Employment Report and Salary Survey (ERSS) data collection process
Press Release: Salaries for New Graduates Rise While Employment Rate Remains Unchanged, Number of Private Practice Jobs Tumbles (Updated August 17, 2016)
Press Release on Employment for the Class of 2015 - Selected Findings. August 17, 2016.
Salaries for New Graduates Rise While Employment Rate Remains Unchanged, Number of Private Practice Jobs Tumbles (Updated August 17, 2016)
August 17, 2016 Download a PDF of this press release New law school graduates from the Class of 2015 secured fewer private practice jobs than any class since 1996. Nevertheless, the percentage of graduates who found jobs in private practice increased slightly from the previous year, and private practice remains the single largest source of jobs for new law school graduates. The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) today released Employment for the Class of 2015 – Selecte...
Class of 2013 (Updated November 3, 2014)
NALP research on the employment experience of the Class of 2013.
Press Release: For Second Year in a Row New Grads Find More Jobs, Starting Salaries Rise — But Overall Unemployment Rate Rises with Historically Large Graduating Class (Updated June 19, 2014)
Press Release on Employment for the Class of 2013 - Selected Findings. June 19, 2014.
Legal Career Professionals (Updated October 9, 2019)
Looking for the most current Law School Career Services Survey or Survey of Law Firm Legal Career Professionals? Go to Member Salary Surveys (members only). Member Salary Surveys (password protected) Canadian Survey of Legal Career Professionals (2019 survey) Law School Career Services (2018 survey) Legal Career Professionals in Law Firms and Employer Organizations (2019 survey) Bulletin Research Articles Highlights of NALP's 2...
Employment for the Class of 2017 - Selected Findings (Updated June 1, 2018)
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Reported Salaries by City and Firm Size for Full-Time Jobs Taken by the Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014 Reported Salaries by City for Full-Time Jobs in Firms of 1-10 Lawyers Taken by the Class of 2014 Reporte...
Employment for the Class of 2018 - Selected Findings (Updated June 1, 2019)
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NALP Membership . NALP membership is an essential investment in advancing your organizational goals related to career counseling and planning , lawyer recruitment and retention , diversity and inclusion , and the professional development of your law students , lawyers , and staff . First , all law students and work together every day to collect What brings NALP lawyers should benefit from a fair and publish accurate legal members together and ethical hiring process . employment data and ...
Press Release: Class of 2017 Notched Best Employment Outcomes Since Recession (Updated August 2, 2018)
Press release on Employment for the Class of 2017 - Selected Findings. August 2, 2018.
Employment of New Law Graduates Tops 90% (Updated January 2, 2009)
07-20-2000 The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) is pleased to announce publication of Jobs & J.D.'s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates — Class of 1999 , the only comprehensive study available on the employment experiences of recent law graduates. This 26th consecutive report documents the sixth successive increase in the employment rate of new law graduates. An increase in full-time legal employment accounts for most of the increase. At the same t...
NALP Employer Survey Takes on a New Look (Updated August 29, 2014)
NALP Bulletin , December 2008 Research designed to find out about legal career professionals, whether on the school or employer side, has been around nearly as long as NALP. During this time, the basic purpose of the research has not changed: to measure the salaries, education, and experience of these individuals. As the profession changes and matures, however, the survey itself must evolve over time. In a simpler time, analyses of individuals on the employer side grouped respondents ...
Changes in Law Firm Salaries from 2000 to 2001 (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , July 2002 Data from the Class of 2001 reveal that the percentage of law firm jobs paying salaries in excess of $95,000 was 46%, compared with 39% for the Class of 2000, and that the overall median increased from $80,000 to $90,000. Continuing increases in law firm salaries in recent years certainly contributed to this rise, as did a continuing increase in the share of jobs taken in large firms. However, a closer look at specific geographic markets, which can be a...
Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs Taken by the Class of 2011 (Updated February 5, 2013)
January 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2011 Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs Taken by the Class of 2011 State PERCENTILE: ...
New Findings on Employment Outcomes for Graduates Who Were Transfer Students (Updated December 21, 2018)
NALP Bulletin , January 2019 Law school graduates from the Class of 2017 who were transfer students were more likely to be employed as of March 15, 2018, compared to the class as a whole — and to have obtained a job in a large law firm. These are the bottom-line findings based on information on graduate transfer status collected for the first time for the Class of 2017. The overall employment rate for graduates who were transfer students was 90.1% of the approximately 1,400 such gradu...
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JD ADVANTAGE CAREER GUIDE SPRING EDITION 2020 © April 2020 National Association for Law Placement , Inc . ( NALP ) 1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 www.nalp.org
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Compliance and Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Employment for the Class of 2016 - Selected Findings (Updated June 1, 2017)
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Starting Salaries - Class of 2010 (Updated November 14, 2011)
The question of how much law graduates earn in their first job out of law school is a compelling one. Each year NALP conducts benchmark research on the employment experiences of the most recent class of law school graduates. The links below provide information on the starting salaries of segments of the Class of 2010. Additional information on starting salaries is available in the annual Jobs & JDs report. Median Reported Salaries for All Full-Time Jobs (Map of the U.S.) M...
Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs Taken by the Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012 Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs Taken by the Class of 2012 PERCENTIL...
Employment for New Law Graduates is Nearly Steady (Updated January 9, 2009)
07-01-2004 NALP announces the publication of Jobs & J.D.'s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates - Class of 2003 , the only comprehensive study available on the employment experiences of recent law graduates. This 30th consecutive report documents an employment rate — 88.9%, a figure that includes employment of all types — that is virtually unchanged from the 89% figure for the class of 2002. This compares with a figure of 90% for 2001, and 91.5% for 2000. The ...
Employment for New Law Graduates Down Slightly, but Remains Relatively Strong (Updated January 5, 2009)
07-24-2003 NALP announces the publication of Jobs & J.D.'s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates - Class of 2002 , the only comprehensive study available on the employment experiences of recent law graduates. This 29th consecutive report documents the second decrease in the employment rate of new law graduates since 1993, with a figure of 89% of graduates for whom employment status was known. This compares with a figure of 90% for 2001, and 91.5% for 2000, and ...
Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Private Practice Taken by the Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014 Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Private Practice Taken by the Class of 2014 Reported Sala...
Law School Career Services - Changes Over Time (Updated January 12, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , November 2007 NALP's practice of benchmarking the staffing and facilities of law school career services offices dates back more than 30 years and thus is almost as old as NALP itself. NALP's first report, the Law School Placement Personnel Survey, reported on the 1974-75 academic year and was based on 56 schools, about half of the 108 schools that were NALP members at the time. In these days of desktop publishing, a computer on every desk, and a generation of law...
NALP Research: Employment for the Class of 2019 - Selected Findings. (Updated August 12, 2020)
Employment for the Class of 2019 - Selected Findings Report. August 2020.
NALP Press Release: Class of 2010 Graduates Faced Worst Job Market Since Mid-1990s: Longstanding Employment Patterns Interrupted (Updated June 1, 2011)
Press Release on Employment for the Class of 2010 - Selected Findings. June 1, 2011.
Press Release: Law School Grads Face Worst Job Market Yet — Less Than Half Find Jobs in Private Practice (Updated June 7, 2012)
Press Release on Employment for the Class of 2011 - Selected Findings. June 7, 2012.
Class of 2010 Graduates Faced Worst Job Market Since Mid-1990s: Longstanding Employment Patterns Interrupted (Updated January 18, 2012)
June 1, 2011 Download a PDF of this press release Read commentary and analysis by NALP's Executive Director on Class of 2010 Selected Findings Read the full text of "Employment for the Class of 2010 — Selected Findings" here According to Selected Findings from its Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2010 released today by NALP, the overall employment rate for new law school graduates is, at 87.6%, the lowest it has been since 1996, when the rate stood at 87.4...
Law School Grads Face Worst Job Market Yet - Less Than Half Find Jobs in Private Practice (Updated June 7, 2012)
June 7, 2012 Download a PDF of this press release According to Selected Findings from the Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2011 released today by NALP, the overall employment rate for new law school graduates is, at 85.6%, the lowest it has been since 1994, when the rate stood at 84.7%. In addition to an overall employment rate that fell two percentage points from that for the previous class, and that has dropped each year since 2008, the Class of 2011 employment fi...
Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs in Business, Government, Public Interest, and Judicial Clerkship Positions Taken by the Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014 Reported Salaries by State or Full-Time Jobs in Business Taken by the Class of 2014 Reported Salaries by Stat...
Employment of New Law Graduates Continues to Rise (Updated May 14, 2020)
07-26-1999 The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) has announced publication of Jobs & J.D.'s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates - Class of 1998 , the only comprehensive study available on the employment experiences of recent law graduates. This 25th consecutive report, which was previously titled Employment Report and Salary Survey, documents the fifth successive increase in the employment rate of new law graduates. An increase in full-time legal e...
Employment for the Class of 2012 - Selected Findings (Updated June 1, 2013)
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Class of 2003 National Summary Report (Updated January 2, 2009)
The tables below present some findings on the employment status and salary levels for the law school graduating class of 2003. With the help of ABA-accredited law schools around the country, NALP gathers and analyzes information on graduating classes every year. The results are published each summer in one of NALP's foremost research publications, Jobs & J.D.'s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates . Class of 2003 National Summary Chart Graduates Number reporte...
Class of 2002 National Summary Report (Updated January 5, 2009)
The table below presents some findings on the employment status and salary levels for the law school graduating class of 2002. With the help of ABA-accredited law schools around the country, NALP gathers and analyzes information on graduating classes every year. The results are published each summer in one of NALP's foremost research publications, Jobs & J.D.'s: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates . Class of 2002 National Summary Chart Graduates Number reporte...
Class of 2009 Faced New Challenges with Recession: Overall Employment Rate Masks Job Market Weakness (Updated May 20, 2010)
Press Release, Employment of Class of 2009 - Selected Findings, May 20, 2010
Class of 2009 Faced New Challenges with Recession: Overall Employment Rate Masks Job Market Weakness (Updated May 31, 2011)
May 20, 2010 Download a PDF of this press release According to Selected Findings from its Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2009 released today by NALP, the employment rate for new law school graduates has fallen nearly four percentage points in two years, an indication of the impact of the recession on the legal employment market. Nonetheless, the employment rate for the Class of 2009 — measured as of February 15, 2010 — is higher than many expected. It is clear tha...
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Reasons To Be A NALP Member NALP membership is an investment in yourself and your organization . NALP Membership Helps You Succeed NALP works every day to be the best career services , recruitment , and professional development organization in the world . For more than 40 years , NALP has played an essential role in the success of our members and the legal career community we serve by providing the highest quality resources to advance your career — benefits designed to plug you into a co...
Class of 2006 (Updated August 18, 2014)
Employment data for the Class of 2006
Lawyer Recruitment, Professional Development, and Personnel Management Professionals - 2004 (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , November 2004 Every other year NALP conducts a survey of individuals involved with recruitment, professional development, and related functions at law firms. Historically, the analyses compiled from this survey have grouped respondents to reflect the primary and second person in the office, regardless of specific job titles. A comparison of selected indicators for primary professionals from the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 surveys is shown in Table 1. As has be...
Median Reported Salaries by Employer Type in the 25 Cities Providing the Most Jobs to the Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014 PRIVATE PRACTICE BUSINESS GOVERNMENT Median Number of Salaries...
Employment for the Class of 2015 - Selected Findings (Updated August 1, 2016)
NALP Research: Employment for the Class of 2015 - Selected Findings.
NALP Research: Pulse Survey on Impact of COVID-19 on Law Schools and Legal Employers - Round 2 (Updated July 15, 2020)
Full report on the second round of pulse surveys measuring the impact of COVID-19 on law schools and legal employers.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Section (SOGIE) (Updated June 3, 2016)
NALP has a longstanding commitment to be an advocate for diversity in the legal profession and in our membership. The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Section (formerly the LGBT Section) is for NALP members with an interest in issues concerning LGBT law students and lawyers, and law schools and legal employers. Join Section Group on NALPconnect 2015-16 Section Chair : Melanie Rowen, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, mrow
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What We Know About JD Advantage Jobs — An Update for the Class of 2018 (Updated February 27, 2020)
NALP Bulletin , March 2020 In a November 2017 NALP Bulletin column , my colleague, Judith N. Collins, provided the first in-depth analysis specifically on the topic of JD Advantage jobs based upon NALP's graduate employment data. This column marks the third year in which NALP has explored these data and provides new information and highlights from the Class of 2018. Key overall findings include : The percentage of jobs taken by law school graduates which are JD Advantage al...
Market for New Law Graduates Up — Approaches 90% for First Time Since 2001 (Updated December 21, 2008)
07-18-2006 The vast majority of Class of 2005 law school graduates — 89.6% of those for whom employment status was known — were employed as of February 15, 2006. This rate is the highest rate measured since 2001, and compares with a rate of 88.9% for 2004 and 2003, 89% for 2002, 90% for 2001, and 91.5% for 2000. In the last eight years the employment market for new law graduates has remained relatively strong and remarkably stable, standing close to or above an 89% employmen...
Market for New Law Graduates Is Steady (Updated December 21, 2008)
07-15-2005 In the last seven years the employment market for new law graduates has remained relatively strong and remarkably stable, standing close to or above an 89% employment rate. This differs dramatically with the early and mid-nineties, when employment rates were in the 84-85% range. The median starting salary for full-time jobs was $55,033, essentially unchanged from the class of 2003. These are among the findings reported in NALP’s newly released Jobs & JD’s: Em...
Starting Salaries - What New Law Graduates Earn - Class of 2010 (Updated November 14, 2011)
NALP Bulletin , November 2011 Class of 2010 — Full-Time Reported Salaries by Employer or Job Type Employer or Job Type PERCENT OF REPORTED SALARIES WHICH WERE: National Median National Mean Most Frequently Reported Salaries # of Salaries Reported $40,000 or Less $40,001 - 55,000 $55,001 - 75,000 $75,001 - 100,000 More than $100,000 All Types 11.3% 26.5% 23.1% 9.6% 29.5% $63,000 $84,111 $160,...
Class of 2012 (Updated November 27, 2013)
A Look at How the Distribution of Law Firm Jobs Taken by Law Graduates Has Fluctuated by Gender and Race ( NALP Bulletin , December 2013) — Historically, women and minorities are less likely to take jobs in law firms, but when they do, they are more likely to obtain those jobs in larger firms. For example, for the Class of 2012, 52.3% of employed men obtained a job in private practice, compared with 49.0% of employed women. Bridge-to-Practice Program Survey Findings for the Class of 201...
Reported Salaries by State for Full-Time Jobs Taken by the Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014 PERCENTILE 90% of Reported Salaries Fell in the Range: Mean Salary # of ...
Employment for the Class of 2013 - Selected Findings (Updated June 1, 2014)
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Class of 2000 (Updated August 18, 2014)
Employment data for the Class of 2000
Law School Employment Profiles — Class of 1999 (Updated December 22, 2008)
Employment data for the Class of 1999 indicate that small firms of 2-25 attorneys continue to be the biggest source of jobs for law school graduates, providing about 6,800 jobs. The largest firms of 251 or more attorneys, by comparison, provided just over 4,000 jobs. This means that 21% of all employed graduates from the Class of 1999 found employment in firms of 2-25 attorneys, while just under 13% found employment in the largest firms. Underlying these averages, which are based on coun...
Public Service Attorney Salaries in Context: Living Wage Data (Updated June 26, 2019)
Public Service Attorney Salaries in Context: Living Wage Data and NALP’s Public Service Attorney Salary Report Figure 1. From: NALP Bulletin , July/August 2019
Class of 2008 (Updated August 18, 2014)
Employment data for the Class of 2008
New Survey Reveals Higher Salaries, More Years of Experience (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , November 2006 Finding out about the professionals involved in law school career services and legal recruitment and professional development has long been a hallmark of NALP research, dating back very nearly to the founding of NALP. Although the methodology, analyses, and titles have changed, many of the fundamental answers sought have not. So whether the result of analyses is called the 1980 Legal Employer Hiring Procedures Survey and Recruitment Administrat...
Trends in Median Reported Salaries - Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012
Median Reported Salaries for Full-Time Jobs - Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012
Trends in Median Reported Salaries - Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014
Class of 2009 (Updated August 18, 2014)
Employment data for the Class of 2009
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2021 Law School Career Services Survey ABOUT THE SURVEY This survey collects information that you want to know and is the basis for the only national benchmarking report on career services salaries , and staffing levels . The value of this biennial report depends on your participation in the survey , and is entirely a function of the amount of information received . Please help yourself and your colleagues by completing the survey now . The full report will be available online later this...
Alumni Report Improved Employment, Satisfaction (Updated October 1, 2018)
NALP Bulletin , October 2018 By Jennifer Mandery, Director of Research for the NALP Foundation, and James G. Leipold, Executive Director of NALP. NALP recently reported that the Class of 2017 had stronger overall employment, higher bar passage required employment, and higher aggregate salaries than any class since the classes that graduated before the recession. Now NALP and the NALP Foundation are pleased to report on new research that shows the post-recession improvement of employme...
Class of 2016 (Updated September 11, 2019)
Class of 2016 Buying Power Index (April 2018) A Demographic Profile of Judicial Clerks - 2006 to 2016 ( NALP Bulletin , October 2017) Employment Rate of New Law Grads Increases After Flat Market in 2015 ( NALP Bulletin , September 2017) Employment for the Class of 2016 — Selected Findings (Report, August 2, 2017) Salary Distribution Curve for the Class of 2016 Employment Rate for New Law School Graduates Rises as the Overall Number of Jobs...
Preliminary Results from NALP 2008 Survey of Legal Career Professionals in Law Firms and Employer Organizations (Updated August 29, 2014)
Preliminary Results from NALP 2008 Survey of Legal Career Professionals in Law Firms and Employer Organizations — by Area of Responsibility and Title Median Salary Median Number of Years in Field % with a JD Recruiting Directors $120,000 10.0 27.5% Managers 85,500 6.0 22.3 Coordinators/administrators 60,000 3.5 6.5 Assistants 44,000 1.5 0.0 Professional Development Directors 197,500 8.0 70.2 ...
Class of 2007 (Updated August 15, 2014)
State Government Jobs in State Capitals — Class of 2007 (NALP Bulletin, February 2009) — Among Class of 2007 law school graduates, a total of 1,379 reported taking a job in state government, making this sector a small (less than 4% of the total) but nonetheless important source of jobs. Another Picture Worth 1,000 Words - Bimodal distribution salary graph for Class of 2007<.p> Class of 2007 Selected Findings (PDF) Class of 2007 National Su...
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NALP / ALI - ABA Professional Development Institute 2010 December 9 - 10 , 2010 Washington , DC Budgeting and Financial Savvy for the PD Professional Kay Nash , Wiley Rein J.D . Neary , McGuireWoods Colleen O’Hara , Arent Fox
Budgeting and Financial Savvy for the PD Professional Kay Nash , Wiley Rein J.D . Neary , McGuireWoods Colleen O’Hara , Arent Fox Budgeting Professional Development budgets should be … “ a planning tool , a communication tool , and an opportunity to align your pr...
Class of 2008 National Summary Report (Updated June 1, 2009)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2008, June 2009.
Prelaw - What Questions Should I Ask? (Updated August 28, 2012)
While there are a lot of factors that go into choosing a law school, one of the most important is employment. You probably have lots of questions. Where do graduates of this law school typically work? Will I be able to pay back my loans? How much support does the school provide? These are likely just a few of the many questions on your mind. With the help of pre-law advisors nationwide , NALP has compiled a comprehensive list of questions for you to consider. And, there are many resourc...
Employment for the Class of 2014 - Selected Findings (Updated June 1, 2015)
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Class of 2009 National Summary Report (Updated June 1, 2010)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2009, June 2010.
Public Interest and Government Salaries (Updated December 22, 2008)
Attorney Salaries at Public Interest and State Government Employers — By Years of Experience As of Spring 2002 Percent of Employers Reporting that Salaries Were: Less than $28,000 $28,000 - 30,999 $31,000 - 33,999 $34,000 - 35,999 $36,000 - 38,999 $39,000 - 44,999 $45,000 - 49,999 $50,000 - 54,999 $55,000 - 59,999 $60,000 or more Entry-level 14.4 21.1 23.0 9.6...
Alumni Counseling Quick Tips (Updated September 11, 2014)
One of the goals of the NALP Law School Alumni Career Services Section and its Alumni Quick Tips Work Group is to pool the alumni counseling expertise of NALP members for the benefit of all by sharing "quick tip" articles on alumni counseling topics. As noted in the copyright information at the bottom of each article, NALP members have permission to distribute these articles to their staff, alumni, and students through a link or as a printed handout, by email, or on a password-protected site. ...
Class of 2015 (Updated September 11, 2019)
Trends in Median Reported Salaries - Class of 2015 (February 2017) The Stories Behind the Numbers: Jobs for New Grads Over More Than Two Decades ( NALP Bulletin , December 2016) — We often talk about law grad jobs in terms of the percentages of graduates who work in various kinds of jobs or for various employers, but sometimes it is helpful to look at the raw numbers underlying the percentages. Race/Ethnicity and the Geographic Distribution of Law Firm Jobs Taken b...
Class of 2017 (Updated September 11, 2019)
New Findings on Employment Outcomes for Graduates Who Were Transfer Students ( NALP Bulletin , January 2019) — Law school graduates from the Class of 2017 who were transfer students were more likely to be employed as of March 15, 2018, compared to the class as a whole. Graduate Demographics and Employer Settings Over Time — A Different Perspective ( NALP Bulletin , December 2018) — It should not be surprising that the demographi...
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9 / 28 / 2017 NALP believes in fairness , facts and the power of a diverse community . We work every day to be the best career services , recruitment , and professional development organization in the world because we want the lawyers and law students we serve to have an ethical recruiting system , employment data they can trust , and expert advisers to guide and support them in every stage of their careers . Summit on Emerging Careers for Law Grads : What Do We Know About JD Advantage J...
Class of 2010 National Summary Report (Updated June 1, 2011)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2010, June 2011.
Class of 2018 (Updated April 29, 2020)
Order your copy of Jobs & JDs — Class of 2018 How Has the Timing of Job Offers to New Law Graduates Changed? ( NALP Bulletin , May 2020) Starting Salaries — Class of 2018 (February 2020) — This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. What We Know About JD Advantage Jobs — An Update for the Class of 2018 ( NALP Bulletin , March 2020) Law...
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It’s Time to Hire an Articling Student What Next ? A resource for Canadian legal employers Download this resource at www.nalp.org © 2018 NALP All rights reserved
For any - sized law firm or office , hiring an articling student can be a significant investment . However , this is even more so when the employer is small and with limited resources . It takes time and money to identify , train , and onboard an articling student — let alone , train the student on the law and practice ! Fort...
Press Release: Law Schools Report Rescinded Employment Offers, Law Firms Report Uncertainty About Associate Start Dates in Second Series of NALP Pulse Surveys (Updated July 15, 2020)
July 15, 2020.
Trends in Graduate Employment — 1982-2003 (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , June 2004 The tables below show employment trends for new law graduates during the period from 1982 to 2003. Because of changes to the job classification question effective with the Class of 2001, exact comparisons with prior years are not available for all trends. Nonetheless, it is evident that, despite some decline in the overall employment rate since 2000, the market for new law graduates has been quite strong in recent years, with overall employment close to...
NALP Best Practices Guide for Managing Law School Employment Outcomes (Updated August 1, 2015)
August 2015
Class of 2011 National Summary Report (Updated July 1, 2012)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2011, July 2012.
Market for New Law Graduates at Highest Level in 20 Years, Approaching 92% (Updated December 9, 2009)
07-24-2008 The vast majority of Class of 2007 law school graduates — 91.9% of those for whom employment status was known — were employed as of February 15, 2008. This rate increased for the third year in a row and was at its highest in 20 years. Moreover, it was the first time since 2000 that the employment rate exceeded 91%. Since 1997 the employment market for new law graduates has remained relatively strong and remarkably stable, standing close to or above an 89% employment rate. It is a...
Market for New Law Graduates Up — Topping 90% for First Time Since 2000 (Updated January 12, 2009)
07-25-2007 For more information on salaries for the Class of 2006, see A Picture Worth 1,000 Words . The vast majority of Class of 2006 law school graduates — 90.7% of those for whom employment status was known — were employed as of February 15, 2007. This rate increased for the second year in a row and topped 90% for the first time since 2000. In the past decade, the employment market for new law graduates has remained relatively strong and remarkably stable, standing close to o...
Employment Rate Falls Again, but Law Firm Jobs Are Up (Updated August 29, 2017)
NALP Bulletin , August 2013 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2012 was 84.7% of graduates for whom employment status was known, matching the rate of 1994, and continuing a decline that started in 2008. (See the table entitled " Employment Trends, 1985 – 2012 .") The employment rate for new law school graduates has fallen more than seven percentage points since reaching a 24-year high of 91.9% in 2007. Nonetheless, the employment picture for this class contained some bright sp...
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NALP in Boston : Anchoring the Profession April 16 - 19 , 2024 The NALP Annual Education Conference is the single largest , most comprehensive , and most well - respected edu Given the challenges and changes in our profession and our world over the past couple of years , it is imperative to stay on top of current industry trends ; learn about best practices as they evolve ; and develop , rekindle , and main To advocate for your participation in the NALP Annual Education Confere...
Interviewer's Quick Tip Sheet (Updated December 17, 2020)
December 2020. NALP's Well-Being in the Recruiting Process Task Force has prepared a simple one-page resource with helpful guidance for interviewers on increasing student well-being and decreasing anxiety during OCI. The Interviewer's Quick Tip Sheet, can easily be shared with interviewers as they prepare to engage in the virtual OCI process.
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NALP DIVERSITY INFOGRAPHIC : WOMEN NALP's recent analyses of the 2015 - 2016 NALP Directory of Legal Employers ( NDLE ) — the annual compendium of legal employer data published by NALP — shows that the representation of women , after making steady incremental progress post - recession , has essentially stalled for women . Women Graduates Entry - level Jobs Bar Passage Required 20 Clerkship or Public yrs . Interest Women have made up almost 2 / 3 of women graduates took jobs half of the g...
Trends in Law Firm Jobs — Classes of 1982-2001 (Updated May 18, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , October 2002 In the 28 years that NALP has compiled graduate employment statistics, over half of employed graduates have obtained their first job in a law firm. In most of these years, jobs at firms of 2-10 attorneys outnumbered jobs at the largest firms of more than 100 attorneys. However, in 1989, 1990, and since 1998, this has not been the case. In the last two years, the percentage of jobs taken in the largest firms equaled or exceeded that of jobs taken in the two...
Class of 2019 Attains Highest Employment Rate in 12 Years as Uncertainty Looms for the Class of 2020 (Updated September 1, 2020)
Class of 2019 Attains Highest Employment Rate in 12 Years as Uncertainty Looms for the Class of 2020
New Research from the NALP Workplace Questionnaire (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , February 2004 Tables: Does your firm have a written parental leave or family care policy? Does your firm offer a flexible spending account/offer use of a childcare facility? Are domestic partners afforded the same benefits as spouses of attorneys? Activities to increase presence and retention of under-represented groups Does your firm have a written alternative work option policy? What determines eligibility for alternative work status? ...
Class of 2016 National Summary Report (Updated August 1, 2017)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2016, August 2017.
Class of 2017 National Summary Report (Updated August 1, 2018)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2017, August 2018
Class of 2019 National Summary Report (Updated August 12, 2020)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2019, August 2020.
Class of 2014 National Summary Report (Updated July 1, 2015)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2014, July 2015.
Class of 2018 National Summary Report (Updated July 1, 2019)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2018, July 2019.
Class of 2015 National Summary Report (Updated August 1, 2016)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2015, August 2016.
Class of 2013 National Summary Report (Updated July 1, 2014)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2013, July 2014.
Class of 2012 National Summary Report (Updated July 1, 2013)
National Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2012, July 2013.
Market for Class of 2008 Law Graduates Shrinks — Employment Rate Registers First Decline Since 2003 (Updated May 31, 2011)
July 9, 2009 Although most Class of 2008 law school graduates — 89.9% of those for whom employment status was known — were employed as of February 15, 2009, this rate represents the first decrease in the employment rate for recent law school graduates since 2003. Thus, while the economic downturn did have an effect on employment opportunities for the Class of 2008, it should be remembered that much of this class obtained employment before the downturn intensified in late 2008, and in fact a ...
Median Reported Salaries by Employer Type - Class of 2010 (Updated January 9, 2013)
Median Reported Salaries by Employer Type in the 20 Cities Providing the Most Jobs to the Class of 2010 PRIVATE PRACTICE BUSINESS GOVERNMENT Median # reported Median # reported Median # reported Atlanta $110,000 171 $70,000 23 $58,494 36 Austin 93,500 54 55,000 9 48,000 20 Baltimore 87,000 43 70,000 17 52,000 21 Boston 160,000* 26...
Working Glossary (Updated August 27, 2019)
Professional jargon abounds in the field of legal recruitment and law school career services. This glossary is designed to help those who are new to the plethora of acronyms and specialized terms. Although somewhat inclusive, this brief glossary cannot feature every legal recruitment or lawyer professional development term or every law-related organization. NALP members are invited to submit suggest new terms for inclusion. This glossary includes several acronyms for associations tha...
NALP Best Practices Guide for Managing Law School Employment Outcomes - 1st Edition (2012) (Updated August 5, 2015)
-- DRAFT -- Your comments and feedback are invited on this draft document. You may post comments at the bottom of this page, send your comments via e-mail to empoutcomes@nalp.org or contact any member of the Law School Employment Outcomes Task Force or any member of the NALP Board directly. See a blog post from the NALP President and the Chair of the NALP Law School Employment Outcomes...
Reported Salaries by City for Law Firm Jobs (Updated February 5, 2013)
January 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2011 PERCENTILE 90% of Reported Salaries Fell in the Range: Mean Salary #...
Why Is Nobody Talking about Gender Diversity in Public Interest Law? (Updated June 1, 2010)
By Katie Dilks, NALP Bulletin, June 2010.
Courting Clerkships Full Report: Findings of the Judicial Clerkship Study (Updated August 13, 2014)
Historic Data: Clerkship Study Findings Courting Clerkships: The NALP Judicial Clerkship Study Section 1. Historical Data: Findings of the Judicial Clerkship Study Examination of Historical Employment Statistics Racial and Ethnic Patterns in Judicial Clerks Gender Distribution in Judicial Clerkships Analysis by School Characteristics The Story Behind the Numbers ...
How Has the Timing of Job Offers to New Law Graduates Changed? (Updated April 29, 2020)
NALP Bulletin , May 2020 According to an analysis of data from NALP's annual Employment Report and Salary Survey for the classes of 2008-2018, the timing of job offers to new law graduates can vary considerably by factors such as employment sector, job type, and firm size for law firm jobs. As Chart 1 shows, prior to the recession over two-thirds of all job offers were received prior to graduation. This percentage declined during the Great Recession and hovered between 52% and 54% from 2...
Employment Trends, 1985-2001 (Updated May 18, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , June 2002 The table below shows employment trends for new law graduates for the 17-year period from 1985 to 2001. It is important to note that new job classifications, effective with the Class of 2001, permit a more precise tracking of the extent to which law graduates are using their law degree in ways other than the practice of law in the traditional sense. However, because of these changes, exact comparisons with prior years are not available for all trends. Emp...
Detailed Analysis of JD Advantage Jobs (Updated April 19, 2013)
May 2013 Starting with the law school Class of 2011, a new term of art entered our lexicon — “JD Advantage.” It is a phrase that NALP and the ABA use to describe a category of jobs for which bar passage is not required but for which a JD degree provides a distinct advantage. (Prior to 2011, NALP called these jobs “JD Preferred” jobs; although the definitions of the “JD Preferred” and “JD Advantage” jobs are not identical, the kinds of jobs represented by these two categories are ...
State Government Jobs in State Capitals (Updated December 22, 2008)
Among the Class of 2002 graduates, somewhat more than 1,300 obtained a job with a state government. Interestingly, only roughly one-third of these jobs are located in state capital cities, suggesting that students interested in state government jobs should not limit their searches to just these cities. The table on the opposite page shows the prevalence of state jobs in state capitals. Not surprisingly, the number of opportunities varies greatly among cities and over time. Among ...
NALP's 50th Anniversary Celebration (Updated April 30, 2021)
NALP's 50th Anniversary
Clerkship Study Alumni Clerk Findings (Updated August 13, 2014)
Courting Clerkships: The NALP Judicial Clerkship Study Section 4. Findings of the Alumni Law Clerk Survey Demographics of Law Clerk Respondents Profile of Successful Characteristics Decision to Apply for a Clerkship Experience with the Application Process Programs, Resources and Services Provided by Their Law Schools The Judicial Clerkship Experience ...
Bridge-to-Practice Fellowships Update — Survey Results (Updated December 1, 2015)
By Christina Jackson, NALP Bulletin, December 2015
Have Disparities in Employment Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity Changed Over Time? (Updated January 4, 2021)
NALP Bulletin , January 2021 The recently released NALP publication, Jobs & JDs: Employment and Salaries of New Graduates — Class of 2019 , features new data on disparities in employment outcomes by race/ethnicity, among other demographics. This article further explores how these disparities have changed during the past five years. While gaps persist in employment rates for many racial groups as compared to all graduates, these gaps have narrowed in most cases during this time period,...
Public Service Initiatives (Updated September 25, 2017)
NALP supports a variety of public interest and government employment initiatives, and also provides a forum to exchange information, develop resources, and guide policy and programs related to public service careers. NALP’s commitment to promoting public service careers includes: PSJD — www.psjd.org . NALP's PSJD website is the premiere online public service job database connecting public interest law job-seekers with job opportunities at all experience levels. Students and alumni of ...
Archives (Updated January 16, 2009)
2005 Women and Attorneys of Color Continue to Make Small Gains at Large Law Firms (2005-11-17) Part-Time Attorney Schedules Available But Under-Utilized (2005-11-17) Entry-Level Lawyer Salaries Remarkably Stable (2005-08-08) Market for New Law Graduates Is Steady (2005-07-15) Entry-Level Hiring at Law Firms Stabilizes — Lateral Hiring Increases (2005-03-25) Fall Legal Recruiting Increases Modestly (2005-03-25) ...
Jobs in Business and Industry - Two Decades of Change (Updated September 10, 2014)
NALP Bulletin , November 2013 Over the past 20 years the percentage of employed law school graduates taking jobs in business and industry has doubled, with the doubling point reached in the two most recent years. In the same time period, the number of employed law school graduates taking jobs in business and industry has about tripled, again reaching the tripling point in the two most recent years. As the bar chart accompanying this article shows, the percentage of jobs in business and in...
NALP Best Practices Guide for Managing Law School Employment Outcomes (Updated January 1, 2012)
January 2012.
Press Release: NALP Finds Offer and Acceptance Rates Remain High, Despite Virtual, Shorter Summer Programs (Updated December 16, 2020)
December 2020. Despite the shift at law firms to virtual and shortened summer programs in 2020, offer and acceptance rates remained near or at historical highs, but summer program class sizes continued to shrink.
Law School-Funded Jobs — 2011-2014 (Updated September 2, 2015)
NALP Bulletin , September 2015 NALP’s tracking of law school funding of jobs started with the Class of 2011. During that time, the number of law school-funded jobs — defined to include bridge-to-practice fellowships of a fixed duration, fixed duration opportunities on campus, such as research assistant positions, and school-funded fellowships — has fluctuated in a range of about 1,400 to 1,700. The table accompanying this article summarizes some of the characteristics of these jobs over th...
Highlights of Employment Outcomes for the Class of 2015 (Updated August 26, 2016)
September 2016 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2015 was unchanged from that for the Class of 2014, at 86.7% of graduates for whom employment status was known. Additionally, the broad contours of the employment settings in which graduates take jobs and the kinds of jobs taken are similar to those for the Class of 2014. However, all of this is within the context of a smaller graduating class and a smaller number of jobs. Additionally, some changes in those contours are worth noti...
The Emergence of Nontraditional-Track Lawyer Career Paths: A Resource Guide for Law Firms and Law Schools (Updated January 1, 2014)
NALP New Career Models Task Force, 2014
Report on the Survey of Legal Employers on 2020 Summer Outcomes and First-Year Associate Plans (Updated December 16, 2020)
NALP’s Report on the Survey of Legal Employers on 2020 Summer Outcomes and First-Year Associate Plans was released in December 2020 and includes information on the outcomes for 1Ls and 2Ls participating in summer programs, as well as the latest data on first-year associate start dates.
State Government Jobs in State Capitals (Class of 2004) (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , January 2006 Among Class of 2004 graduates, not quite 1,200 obtained a job with a state government. Interestingly, only 40% of these jobs were located in state capital cities, suggesting that students interested in state government jobs should not limit their searches to just these cities. The table below shows the prevalence of state government jobs in state capitals. Not surprisingly, the number of opportunities varies greatly among cities and over time. ...
Trends in Graduate Employment — 1985-2004 (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , June 2005 The tables below show employment trends for new law graduates from 1982 to 2004. Because of changes to the job classification question effective with the Class of 2001, exact comparisons with prior years are not available for all trends. However, it is evident that, despite some decline in the overall employment rate since 2000, the market for new law graduates has been quite strong in recent years, with overall employment close to or above 89% since 1...
State Government Jobs in State Capitals (Class of 2007) (Updated March 9, 2009)
NALP Bulletin , February 2009 Among Class of 2007 law school graduates, a total of 1,379 reported taking a job in state government, making this sector a small (less than 4% of the total) but nonetheless important source of jobs. Not surprisingly, the number of state government jobs has fluctuated over the years, reflecting fluctuations in states’ fiscal conditions. More consistently, however, only about 35-40% of these jobs are located in state capital cities, suggesting that students inte...
Selected Findings from the Survey on LRAPs — A 2016 Update (Updated June 1, 2016)
By Christina Jackson, NALP Bulletin, June 2016.
Law Firm Job Opportunities and Population Changes, 1995-2005 (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , September 2006 NALP periodically compiles information on law firm job opportunities compared with changes in population in a variety of cities across the country. The table below provides a look at job opportunities, as reported in NALP’s Employment Report and Salary Survey (ERSS), and changes in population between 1995 and 2005. The table includes a mix of cities: those that have consistently been the largest centers of law firm jobs (e.g., New York and Los Angeles...
Trends in Graduate Employment — 1985-2005 (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , July 2006 Table 1 below shows employment trends for new law graduates from 1985 to 2005. Because of changes in how jobs are classified, effective with the Class of 2001, exact comparisons are not available for all trends. However, it is evident that, despite some decline in the overall employment rate since 2000, the market for new law graduates has been quite strong in recent years, with overall employment close to or above 89% since 1997. The employment rate for the...
Surveys, Ratings, and Rankings — And Why I’ll Create My Own Top Five Movie List! (Updated September 1, 2010)
by Charlotte Wager, NALP Vice President NALP Bulletin , September 2010 Surveys can provide useful information and data to people making decisions. They are a reference point for anyone doing research. They provide a way to assess, compare, and measure. They serve a purpose. Presumably, that’s why so many of us spend so much time responding to surveys and then hours reviewing the results. In my humble opinion, surveys, like many other things in life, are imperfect. Sometimes it’s the po...
Courting Clerkships: The NALP Judicial Clerkship Study (Updated August 13, 2014)
Published October 2000. Executive Summary and Action Plan Introduction and Rationale Methodology Overview of the Findings: Analysis of Employment Statistics Findings from the Administrative Survey of Law Schools Findings from the Law Student Survey Findings from the Alumni Law Clerk Survey Action Plan: Key Concerns Action Plan to Address These Concerns I. The Judiciary II. Law Schools III. Students Selected Resources Acknowledgements Full Repo...
Guide to Law School LRAPs (Updated August 7, 2014)
August 2014
Trends in Graduate Employment — 1985-2006 (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , July 2007 The first table below shows employment trends for new law graduates from 1985 to 2006. Because of changes in how jobs are classified, effective with the Class of 2001, exact comparisons are not available for all trends. However, it is evident that, despite some decline in the overall employment rate since 2000, the market for new law graduates has been quite strong in recent years, with overall employment close to or above 89% since 1997, and increases over ...
Trends in Graduate Employment (1985-2007) (Updated December 22, 2008)
NALP Bulletin , July 2008 The first table below shows employment trends for new law graduates from 1985 to 2007. Because of changes in how jobs are classified, effective with the Class of 2001, exact comparisons are not available for all trends. However, it is evident that the market for new law graduates has been quite strong in recent years, with overall employment close to or above 89% since 1997, and increases over the prior year in 2005, 2006, and 2007. The employment rate fo...
Reported Salaries by City for Law Firm Jobs - Class of 2014 (Updated March 16, 2016)
March 2016 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2014 PERCENTILE 90% of Reported Salaries Fell in the Range: Mean Salary # of ...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Additions to the ERSS Survey and a Name Change for the LGBT Section (Updated February 1, 2014)
By Mark Goldfarb, NALP Bulletin, February 2014.
Trends in Graduate Employment (1985-2008) (Updated June 23, 2010)
NALP Bulletin , July 2009 The first table below shows employment trends for new law graduates from 1985 to 2008. Because of changes in how jobs are classified, effective with the Class of 2001, exact comparisons are not available for all trends. However, it is evident that the market for new law graduates in the Classes of 1997 through 2008 was quite strong, with overall employment close to or above 89% since 1997, and increases over the prior year in 2005, 2006, and 2007. The 91.9% em...
Employment Market for Law School Graduates Wavers (Updated September 10, 2014)
NALP Bulletin , July 2010 Despite the vicissitudes of the economy, the employment market for new law school graduates has been remarkably steady over time. However, after a 12-year period in which the overall employment rate was close to or above 89% (with a high of 91.9% reached in 2007), it is evident that a reversal which started in 2008 is continuing. (See the table below showing employment trends for new law graduates from 1985 to 2009.) The employment rate for new law school grad...
Longstanding Employment Patterns for Law School Graduates Interrupted (Updated August 12, 2015)
NALP Bulletin , July 2011 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2010 was 87.6% of graduates for whom employment status was known, the lowest rate since 1996, continuing a reversal that started in 2008. (See the table below entitled "Employment Trends, 1985 - 2010.") The employment rate for new law school graduates has fallen more than four percentage points since reaching a 20-year high of 91.9% in 2007. Moreover, the Class of 2010 employment figures reveal a job market with...
Class of 2011 Has Lowest Employment Rate Since Class of 1994 (Updated August 12, 2015)
NALP Bulletin , July 2012 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2011 was 85.6% of graduates for whom employment status was known, the lowest rate since 1994, continuing a decline that started in 2008. (See the table below entitled "Employment Trends, 1985-2011.") The employment rate for new law school graduates has fallen more than six percentage points since reaching a 20-year high of 91.9% in 2007. Moreover, the Class of 2011 employment figures show that this class faced a ...
Legal Services Jobs - Are They Up or Down? (Updated September 27, 2012)
NALP Bulletin , October 2012 It turns out the answer to this question is not straightforward. Members of the Class of 2011 reported taking 732 jobs in legal services, down slightly from the 839 jobs reported for the Class of 2010, but up dramatically from numbers reported a decade ago. Based on these job counts alone, entry-level job prospects in civil legal services would appear to be doing just fine in recent years, with twice as many jobs reported as 12-15 years ago, and a far cry f...
Just What Is the JD Advantage? (Updated September 10, 2014)
NALP Bulletin , May 2013 Starting with the law school Class of 2011, a new term of art entered our lexicon — “JD Advantage.” It is a phrase that NALP and the ABA use to describe a category of jobs for which bar passage is not required but for which a JD degree provides a distinct advantage. (Prior to 2011, NALP called these jobs “JD Preferred” jobs; although the definitions of the “JD Preferred” and “JD Advantage” jobs are not identical, the kinds of jobs represented by these tw...
A Look at How the Distribution of Law Firm Jobs Taken by Law Graduates Has Fluctuated by Gender and Race (Updated September 10, 2014)
NALP Bulletin , December 2013 Historically, women and minorities are less likely to take jobs in law firms, but when they do, they are more likely to obtain those jobs in larger firms. For example, for the Class of 2012, 52.3% of employed men obtained a job in private practice, compared with 49.0% of employed women — a 3.3 percentage point differential. For employed minorities and non-minorities, the respective percentages were 47.5% and 51.6%, just over a 4 percentage point differential. ...
New Grads Find More Jobs for Second Year in a Row, But Not Enough More to Offset the Larger Class Size (Updated August 29, 2017)
NALP Bulletin , August 2014 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2013 was 84.5% of graduates for whom employment status was known — the lowest rate in 20 years, continuing a decline that started in 2008, albeit a very small decline compared with those from 2008 to 2012. (See the table entitled " Employment Trends — 1985-2013 .") The employment rate for new law school graduates has fallen 7.4 percentage points since reaching 91.9% in 2007, the highest rate in the past 25 years. A...
Employment Rate of New Law Grads Unchanged as Both the Number of Graduates and the Number of Jobs Found Decline (Updated August 29, 2017)
NALP Bulletin , October 2016 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2015 was 86.7% of graduates for whom employment status was known, unchanged from that for the Class of 2014. The Class of 2014 was the first to record an increase since 2007. (See the table entitled " Employment Trends - 1985-2015 .") Thus the overall employment rate remains more than 5 percentage points below the 91.9% reached in 2007, which stands as the highest rate in 26 years. The rate of employment in jobs r...
Reported Salaries by City for Law Firm Jobs - Class of 2012 (Updated September 11, 2013)
September 2013 This information is being made available for prospective law school applicants and others interested in the starting salaries of new law school graduates. Want to learn more about the entry-level job market for recent law school graduates? See NALP's annual Jobs & JDs report . << Return to complete salary information for the Class of 2012 Reported Salaries by City for Law Firm Jobs PERCENTILE 90% of Reported Sal...
/uploads/Research/2015StudentSurveyVerbatimNational_FINAL.pdf (Updated February 9, 2015)
2015 National Report : Verbatim Student Responses The verbatim responses reported here include all valid responses from the 1295 responding students . The appropriate N is reported with each question . For the edited national report see http : / / www.nalp.org / 2015studentsurvey .
Full listings of verbatim comments Other resources which influenced decision about which employers to apply to for screening interviews — all descriptions verbatim Response I applied to all DC firms coming ...
Employment Rate of New Law Grads Up for the First Time Since 2007, Helped by Smaller Class Size (Updated August 29, 2017)
NALP Bulletin , August 2015 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2014 was 86.7% of graduates for whom employment status was known, the first year that the rate has increased since 2007. (See the table entitled " Employment Trends — 1985-2014 .") Despite the increase of more than 2 percentage points compared to the prior year, the overall employment rate remains more than 5 percentage points below the 91.9% reached in 2007, which stands as the highest rate in 26 years. The rate o...
Employment Rate of New Law Grads Increases After Flat Market in 2015 (Updated August 29, 2017)
NALP Bulletin , September 2017 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2016 was 87.5% of graduates for whom employment status was known, up by 0.8 percentage point compared with 2015. The Class of 2016 is only the second to record an increase since 2007. (See the table entitled " Employment Trends — 1985-2016 .") Thus the overall employment rate remains well over 4 percentage points below the 91.9% reached in 2007, which stands as the highest rate since 1988. The rate of employmen...
Employment Rate for Class of 2017 Grads Increases Modestly Compared to 2016 (Updated August 29, 2018)
NALP Bulletin , September 2018 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2017 was 88.6% of graduates for whom employment status was known, up by 1.1 percentage points compared with 2016. The Class of 2017 is only the third to record an increase since 2007. (See Table 1. Employment Trends — 1985-2017 .) Thus, the overall employment rate remains more than 3 percentage points below the 91.9% reached in 2007, which stands as the highest rate since 1988. The rate of employment in jobs re...
Jobs (Updated September 7, 2017)
Welcome to the NALP Job Center , a job board designed to serve members and non-members seeking to fill positions in legal career services, legal recruitment, professional development, and related fields. This job board platform allows employers to have control over their own listings and allows candidates to conduct searches to meet their specific interests. [If you are interested in posting a public service or public interest internship, fellowship, or position, please visit www.psjd.org .]...
Clerkship Study Tables 27-45 (Updated August 13, 2014)
Courting Clerkships: The NALP Judicial Clerkship Study Table 27. Demographics of Students Who Did and Did Not Apply for a Clerkship Table 28. Comparisons of Application and Offer Rates Table 29. Law School Activities (Reported by Students Receiving an Offer for a Judicial Clerkship) Table 30. Importance of the Following Factors in Judges' Selection of Law Clerks T...
Employment Rate Continues Upward Trend for Class of 2018; Total Number of Law Firm Jobs Increases for First Time in Five Years (Updated August 28, 2019)
NALP Bulletin , September 2019 The overall employment rate for the Class of 2018 was 89.4% of graduates for whom employment status was known, up by 0.8 percentage points compared with 2017. Despite three consecutive years of increasing employment rates, the Class of 2018 is still only the fourth to record an increase since 2007 (see Table 1. Employment Trends — Classes of 1985-2018 .) Thus, the overall employment rate still remains 2.5 percentage points below the 91.9% reached in 2007, wh...
National Report: Survey for Law Students Who Interviewed with Law Firms for Summer 2019 (Updated October 2, 2019)
2019
Clerkship Study Law Student Findings (Updated August 13, 2014)
Courting Clerkships: The NALP Judicial Clerkship Study Section 3. Findings of the Law Student Survey Demographics of Student Respondents Significant Characteristics of Successful Students Decision Whether to Apply for a Clerkship Experience with the Application Process Programs, Resources and Services Provided by Law Schools Outcomes of the Clerkship A...
Principles for a Fair and Ethical Recruitment Process (Updated December 12, 2018)
December 2018. Full text of NALP Principles.
Being Mindful About the Connection Between Pro Bono and PD (Updated May 1, 2013)
By James G. Leipold, NALP Bulletin, May 2013.
/uploads/Research/LawStudentSurveyNationalReport2017_FINAL.pdf (Updated February 6, 2017)
Survey for Law Students Who Interviewed with Law Firms for Summer 2017 © February 2017 National Association for Law Placement , Inc . ( NALP ) 1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 , Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 | Fax : ( 202 ) 835 - 1112 www.nalp.org 2017 National Report :
1 . What resources most influenced your decision about which employers to apply to for screening interviews ? Check the three resources that were most important to your decision - making . Mult...
Principles for a Fair and Ethical Recruitment Process (Updated December 12, 2018)
INTRODUCTION These Principles for a Fair and Ethical Recruitment Process provide suggested best practices designed to ensure the highest standards of professionalism, fairness, transparency, and non-discrimination. These Principles are based on decades of collective experience. They reflect best practices to support law students in pursuing their studies meaningfully while benefiting from the wide range of career development opportunities available to them. At the same time...
How Have Summer Program Trends Compared to the Entry-Level Big Law Job Market? (Updated June 1, 2020)
NALP Bulletin , June 2020 From 2008 to 2011, following the Great Recession, the number of entry-level Big Law jobs reported within NALP's Employment Report and Salary Survey collapsed, with the number reported dropping by more than 3,100 jobs (for our purposes, we will define Big Law firms as those of more than 250 lawyers). Since then the number of Big Law jobs has steadily risen, increasing by almost 2,000; however, for the Class of 2018 there were still almost 1,150 fewer entry-level jo...
Employment for the Class of 2009 - Selected Findings (Updated June 1, 2010)
2010
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2023 Annual Education Conference Speaker Bios ( this document will not be updated ) Mary Abbajay President & CEO , Careerstone Group Mary Abbajay is the author of the best - selling , award - winning Managing Up : How to Move Up , Win at Work , and Succeed with Any Type of Boss and president of Careerstone Group , LLC , a full service organizational and leadership development consultancy that delivers leading - edge talent and organizational development solutions to business and gove...
2020 Report on Survey of Law Firm Competency Expectations for Associate Development (Updated May 7, 2021)
May 2021. Summarizes findings from a survey conducted in November and December 2020 and examines the skill sets and abilities that legal employers are seeking to develop in their associates.
/uploads/documents/20140210NALPResponseABADraftProtocolFebruary102014.pdf (Updated February 11, 2014)
February 10 , 2014 Scott F . Norberg Deputy Consultant American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar 321 North Clark Street Chicago , IL 60654 - 7958 Dear Scott , We are writing on behalf of the NALP Board of Directors to provide comments on the latest draft Protocol for Reviewing Law Graduate Employment Data and Statement of Procedures for Collecting , Maintaining , and Reporting Law Graduate Employment Data . First let us say how appreciative the NALP Bo...
The Stories Behind the Numbers: Jobs for New Grads Over More Than Two Decades (Updated May 13, 2020)
NALP Bulletin , December 2016 by James G. Leipold, Executive Director, and Judith N. Collins, Director of Research With the publication of the employment and salary findings for the Class of 2015, we noted that the class secured a smaller number of jobs in private practice than any law school graduating class since 1996. That observation provoked a number of questions from NALP members and the press, and led us back to the numbers to see what other stories they held. We often t...
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COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE Bulletin April � � � � � � � � � � � �
CONTENT The New CE Manager A WORLD - CLASS LMS Messages from NALP Members 40 SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR LAW FIRMS NALP50th Anniversary Articles from April 42 2020 - March2021 : A Recap Making Noise : The Work Underway and a 44 Callto Action ( Again ) by Alison Ashe - Card , Molly Stafford , and Nicole Netkin - Collins How NALP’s DEI Research Documents the Welcome to the 50th Anniversary 53 IT Training 4 SlowProgressof Underrepr...
Employment for the Class of 2010 - Selected Findings (Updated June 1, 2011)
2011
Employment for the Class of 2011 - Selected Findings (Updated June 1, 2012)
2012
Clerkship Study Tables 46-66 (Updated August 13, 2014)
Courting Clerkships: The NALP Judicial Clerkship Study Table 46. Demographics of Alumni Law Clerk Survey Respondents Table 47. Courts Represented by Alumni Law Clerk Survey Respondents Table 48. Comparison of Demographics by Type of Court Table 49. Comparison of Demographics by Level of Court Table 50. Comparison of Demographics by Court Combination Table 51. Co...
/uploads/AEC2022/2021AnnualEducationConferenceProgPDF.pdf (Updated March 4, 2021)
2021 Virtual NALP Annual Education Conference : Celebrating 50 Years of Making You an Expert Monday - Friday , April 26 - 30 , 2021 ( half days ) Educational programming and networking opportunities each day We will gather for the 2021 NALP Annual Education Conference virtually , using an easy to navigate conference platform . This new approach to our event will ensure that we can come together saf ety to discuss issues of vital importance , learn best practices from each other , and con...
Newer Professionals' Forum 2020 (Updated February 1, 2020)
February 20-22, 2020, Portland, OR
Long Range Strategic Plan 2005-2010 (Updated April 19, 2010)
An Ambitious Plan for NALP NALP Roadmap for the Next Five Years Emphasizes Excellence in Service Members of 2005-2010 Long Range Strategic Planning Committee NALP Mission Goals Tactics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An Ambitious Plan for NALP I am pleased to present NALP's 2005-2010 Long Range Strategic Plan. Unlike the plans of some organizations, NALP's Long R...
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PROFESSIONALS ’ FORUM
PROFESSIONALS ’ FORUM A Conference Designed for Newer Professionals The Newer Professionals ’ Forum ( NPF ) on February 11 - 13 , 2016 , will bring together newer professionals and experienced faculty members for two and a half days in Baltimore , Maryland , to focus on the career development of newer professionals in the fields of legal recruitment , law student and lawyer professional development , and career services . Participants will engage in meaningful ed...
/uploads/Research/LawStudentSurveyNationalReport2015_FINAL.pdf (Updated February 9, 2015)
2015 National Report : Survey of Law Students Who Interviewed with Law Firms for Summer 2015 The quantitative responses reported here include all valid responses from the 1295 responding students . The appropriate N is reported with each question . The narrative responses reported here represent typical and / or frequent narrative responses provided by the 1295 responding students to specific survey questions . Some of these narrative responses have been edited for clarity . For a comple...
Emotional Intelligence for Leaders (Updated September 29, 2010)
Newer Professionals Section Call, Emotional Intelligence. September 29, 2010.
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NALP JD Career Advisors Section , CSO Employer Outreach Work Group EMPLOYER OUTREACH BEST PRACTICES GUIDE Created through a collaborative effort of the JD Career Advisors Section , CSO Employer Outreach Work Group . National Association for Law Placement , Inc . ( NALP ) 1220 19th Street NW , Suite 401 , Washington , DC 20036 - 2405 Phone : ( 202 ) 835 - 1001 www.nalp.org
THIS GUIDE HAS BEEN A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT OF THE CSO Employer Outreach Work Group Special Thanks Go To : Contribu...
NALP Diversity Best Practices Guide (Updated June 1, 2020)
Revised June 2020.
Lateral Hiring Best Practices Guide, Fourth Edition, 2020 (Updated May 28, 2020)
National Association for Law Placement Lateral Hiring Best Practices Guide Fourth Edition , 2020
The Fourth Edition of the Lateral Hiring Best Practices Guide was compiled by a 2017 - 2020 Work Group of the NALP Recruiting Section led by the Lateral Hiring Subgroup Vice Chairs Laura S . Dolan ( Bass , Berry & Sims PLC ) , Lindsay Howard ( Wolf , Greenfield & Sacks PC ) , Christine Whitehead ( Hogan Lovells US LLP ) and assisted by Recruiting Section Chairs Michelle Le Biavant ...
Report of the Emerging Legal Jobs Work Group (Updated August 1, 2015)
August 2015. Associate Exit Interview Template, Interview Script, Sample Job Descriptions to provide an overview of the types of emerging jobs
Multiple Generations in Law Firms: Working Together (Updated March 1, 2020)
March 2020 report. Authors: Yolanda Cartusciello, Partner, PP&C Consulting; Aric Press, Partner, PP&C Consulting; Danielle A. Taylor, Director of Research, NALP
Perspectives on 2018 Law Student Recruiting (Updated March 12, 2019)
2019.
Roundtable on The Intersection Between Pro Bono and Professional Development - Transcript (Updated January 31, 2013)
Roundtable on The Intersection Between Pro Bono and Professional Development, January 31, 2013.
