For those of you who graduated from law school in 2021, you entered one of the strongest legal job markets in recent history (class of 2022 data is not yet available). The National Association of Law Placement (NALP) recently released its findings, and they looked amazing. For those graduating in 2022, and 2023, the market also looks promising.

So … what about the next round of applicants, who would graduate in 2024 or after? Well, there’s some indication that we might be at the top of the curve (think bell curve) and that the numbers might stay the same or go down a little bit, but I’ve been doing this since 2008 and think that law school remains an excellent proposition. Even when the bottom dropped out in 2010 and 2011, my students were getting jobs. Good jobs.

If you’d like to read the entire NALP report, you can find it here: https://www.nalp.org/classof2021. As always, please reach out with any questions about the law school admissions process.