I offered my overall assessment of the state of employment for the Class of 2020, as recently released. Some schools saw significant improvement in placement in full-time, long-term, bar passage-required jobs. Many schools are the same ones that saw significant improvements in bar passage rates or are in “diploma privilege” jurisdictions, which is perhaps no surprise.

Other schools—especially those in states hardest hit by the pandemic like New York, or those schools that also saw a significant drop-off in bar passage rates, did not fare as well: