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Japan’s Law Schools Should Take Lessons From Their American Counterparts
Oh Yomiuri Shimbun, why must you blight the Internet with such nonsense in your editorials on legal education? [T]he number of lawyers employed by local governments and business corporations has not...
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10 Ways to Falsify Law Graduate Employment Doomsayers
I begin 2015’s first substantive post by invoking the right of listicle clickbait. A loose end from December is Loyola Law School, Los Angeles professor Theodore Seto’s response to my American Lawyer...
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71 Percent of Lawyers Work in the Legal Services Sector
71 percent of employed lawyers, that is. We’re not talking about people who are on the rolls but aren’t working. I haven’t carefully read through all of Michael Simkovic’s and Frank McIntyre’s most...
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GUEST POST—Smokin’ Bucketful of Awesome (Flow Chart Edition)
(Connecticut attorney Samuel Browning, a friend of The Law School Tuition Bubble, obtained permission from law professor Bernie Burk to create a flow chart version of a series of posts Burk wrote on...
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BLS Projects Only 43,800 New Lawyer Jobs by 2024
On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment projections for the next cycle: 2014-2024. In 2014, the BLS estimated that there were 778,700 lawyer positions (as opposed to discrete...
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‘Law Deans Are Running Bait and Switch Operation’
…In Australia. Yes folks, y’all can add Down Under to the list of countries with too many law students chasing too few legal jobs, according to a surprisingly scathing opinion piece in The Australian...
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BLS: 74,800 New Lawyer Jobs by 2026, Turnover of 22 Percent
On October 24th, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment projections for the next cycle, 2016-26. For 2016, the BLS Employment Projections program (EPP) estimates that there were 792,500...
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Can AccessLex Institute Add Decimals to 100%?
I apologize for being last to the potluck for AccessLex Institute’s study, “Examining Value, Measuring Engagement,” which surveys law-school graduates to investigate their long-term outcomes. Please...
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Labor Dept.: 50,100 New Lawyer Jobs by 2028, Turnover of 27 Percent
On September 4, 2019, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its employment projections for the next cycle, 2018-2028. For 2018, the BLS’s Employment Projections program (EP program) estimates...
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Labor Dept.: 32,300 New Lawyer Jobs by 2029, Turnover of 24 Percent
On September 1, 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its employment projections for the next cycle, 2019-2029. For 2019, the BLS’s Employment Projections program (EP program) estimates...
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