Nine months after graduation, 85.6 percent of the class of 2011 had secured employment, down by 6 percentage points from the all-time high employment rate in 2007. Also, one third of recent graduates were in jobs that don't require a law degree, were back in school or were unemployed, and fewer than half of the new law graduates found jobs in private practice.
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2011 Graduates Face a 'Brutal' Job Market, Survey Shows
The National Law Journal
June 11, 2012
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