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.