Visualizing legal employment outcomes in New York in 2019

This is the seventh in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2019. Following posts on outcomes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, Florida, and DC-Virginia-Maryland, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of New York law schools for the Class of 2019. (More about the methodology is available at the Pennsylvania post.) Last year's New York post is here.

Please note, of course, that “J.D.-advantage” jobs may differ significantly from school to school, which may alter how one views the “overall” rate. (USNWR treats them as equivalent, but there are good reasons to think they may not be equivalent; and here, there are significant disparities among some schools and their J.D.-advantage lacement.) And recall that I sort the table below to include school-funded positions, while the chart only includes unfunded positions. (It’s a reason I try to display the information in different ways!) The Class of 2019 saw continued upward trends. Bar passage-required jobs rose from 2882 to 3027; J.D.-advantage positions fell and school funded positions held steady. And while total graduates increased slightly to 3730, the improvement in bar passage-required positions helped increase placement from 86.1% to 87.6%.

As always, please notify me of any corrections or errata.

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Peer score	School	2019	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads	2018	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads
4.7	Columbia University	98.6%	2.2	416	3	6	431	96.4%	420	8	5	449
4.6	New York University	96.1%	-0.7	429	6	30	484	96.7%	411	3	29	458
2.3	St. John's University	91.0%	-0.6	192	10	0	222	91.6%	186	21	0	226
4.2	Cornell University	89.2%	-4.2	170	2	1	194	93.4%	178	4	1	196
3.3	Fordham University	88.0%	-0.5	310	25	1	382	88.4%	302	24	2	371
1.9	New York Law School	87.5%	6.5	200	38	0	272	81.0%	167	52	2	273
2.9	Cardozo School of Law	85.4%	0.5	228	11	1	281	84.9%	207	23	1	272
2	Pace University	85.4%	5.9	147	11	0	185	79.5%	118	14	0	166
2.3	Hofstra University	83.4%	1.0	162	13	1	211	82.4%	186	11	0	239
2.6	Brooklyn Law School	82.9%	2.4	240	31	0	327	80.5%	245	48	0	364
2.0	Albany Law School	82.4%	3.4	99	12	1	136	79.0%	86	8	0	119
2.3	City University of New York	80.4%	6.4	126	9	0	168	74.0%	64	7	0	96
2.3	University of Buffalo-SUNY	80.1%	2.1	96	17	0	141	78.1%	101	13	0	146
1.5	Touro College	77.9%	7.7	85	3	0	113	70.2%	95	4	0	141
2.4	Syracuse University	74.9%	-1.4	127	10	0	183	76.3%	116	16	0	173