{"id":133910,"date":"2025-09-25T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/25\/huge-law-school-classes-could-mean-huge-employment-woes-in-the-future\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:38:12","slug":"huge-law-school-classes-could-mean-huge-employment-woes-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/25\/huge-law-school-classes-could-mean-huge-employment-woes-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Law School Classes Could Mean Huge Employment Woes In the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The unknown here is how quickly that change will happen across the whole market and whether the impact will be felt before or after these students graduate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Nikia Gray, executive director of the \u00a0National Association for Law Placement, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, on how oversized law school classes could translate into an oversaturated job market for graduates come 2028. At least 10 law schools have reported their largest incoming classes in more than a decade thanks to a \u201cblockbuster\u201d admissions cycle.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of 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

The unknown here is how quickly that change will happen across the whole market and whether the impact will be felt before or after these students graduate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Nikia Gray, executive director of the \u00a0National Association for Law Placement, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, on how oversized law school classes could translate into an oversaturated job market for graduates come 2028. At least 10 law schools have reported their largest incoming classes in more than a decade thanks to a \u201cblockbuster\u201d admissions cycle.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The unknown here is how quickly that change will happen across the whole market and whether the impact will be felt before or after these students graduate. \u2014 Nikia Gray, executive director of the \u00a0National Association for Law Placement, in comments given to Reuters, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133911,"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-133910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-e546C7.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133910","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=133910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}