WSJ Law Blog on Chicago Law's Release of Detailed Employment Data

U of Chicago Law Goes Open Kimono with Employment Data

Following news of the ABA’s changes to the data it collects on law school graduates’ jobs, and discussions on whether a law degree is “economically viable,” comes this news: University of Chicago Law School has published, on its website, detailed employment data for its three most recent classes, including the class of 2010.

As the Chicago Tribune points out, the school had 611 law graduates between 2008 and 2010, and only 10 were unemployed nine months after finishing. The median salary for all three years was $160,000.

One change noted by the Tribune is that fewer graduates from 2010 ended up at law firms than those in prior classes, with 71.2% of 2010′s class employed in firms, compared with about 80% for the previous two classes, all of which were about the same size.

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