The employment rate for recent law-school graduates has fallen to its lowest level since 1994, according to figures released on Thursday by the National Association for Law Placement. Only 85.6 percent of 2011 graduates whose employment status was known had jobs nine months after leaving law school.
That rate, which has declined every year since 2008, was two percentage points below the previous year’s employment level. The figure is based on data submitted by schools and includes graduates working part time and in jobs that don’t require a law degree. (Recently, more than a dozen law schools have been sued and 20 more threatened with legal action over their allegedly inflated job-placement rates.)
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