{"id":116224,"date":"2025-04-23T16:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T00:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/23\/recent-law-school-graduates-set-record-high-employment-rate\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T00:54:48","slug":"recent-law-school-graduates-set-record-high-employment-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/23\/recent-law-school-graduates-set-record-high-employment-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Law School Graduates Set \u2018Record-High\u2019 Employment Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite initial concerns that the Class of 2024 employment outcomes might be impacted by an anticipated contraction in the market and increased size of the graduating class,\u00a0the percentage of recent law school graduates employed in full-time, long-term Bar Admission Required\/Anticipated or JD Advantage jobs has reached another record-high\u2013which is good news for the graduates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jenn Rosato Perea<\/a>, managing director of accreditation and legal education at the American Bar Association, in a statement given concerning data on the employment outcomes for the law school Class of 2024<\/a>. According to the ABA\u2019s announcement, 87.1% (33,931<\/em><\/strong>) of those who graduated from an accredited law school in 2024 were employed in full-time, long-term Bar Admission Required\/Anticipated or J.D. Advantage jobs roughly 10 months after graduation<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite initial concerns that the Class of 2024 employment outcomes might be impacted by an anticipated contraction in the market and increased size of the graduating class,\u00a0the percentage of recent law school graduates employed in full-time, long-term Bar Admission Required\/Anticipated or JD Advantage jobs has reached another record-high\u2013which is good news for the graduates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jenn Rosato Perea<\/a>, managing director of accreditation and legal education at the American Bar Association, in a statement given concerning data on the employment outcomes for the law school Class of 2024<\/a>. According to the ABA\u2019s announcement, 87.1% (33,931<\/em><\/strong>) of those who graduated from an accredited law school in 2024 were employed in full-time, long-term Bar Admission Required\/Anticipated or J.D. Advantage jobs roughly 10 months after graduation<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Despite initial concerns that the Class of 2024 employment outcomes might be impacted by an anticipated contraction in the market and increased size of the graduating class,\u00a0the percentage of recent law school graduates employed in full-time, long-term Bar Admission Required\/Anticipated or JD Advantage jobs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}