Job Market May Suck Less Thanks To Decreased Law School Enrollment

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[T]he law school graduating class nationally continued to grow based on decisions that were made, in some cases, well before the recession. Even though there were more jobs and more of those jobs were higher-quality jobs, the overall unemployment rate continued to grow, just because the size of the pool was so big. [The] decline in enrollment, all by itself, is going to continue to help the job market.

James Leipold, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), commenting on law firm hiring trends since the recession. Leipold further noted that although firms have increased their hiring of recent law school graduates, the amount pales in comparison to pre-recession hiring.

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