Chances, questions about legal market.

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<p>This is the graph of starting salaries from 2006, the peak of the most recent lawyer boom.
[Empirical</a> Legal Studies: Distribution of 2006 Starting Salaries: Best Graphic Chart of the Year](<a href=“Empirical Legal Studies”>Empirical Legal Studies: Distribution of 2006 Starting Salaries: Best Graphic Chart of the Year)</p>

<p>This is the proportion of law school grads who obtained jobs at the National Law Journal’s top 250 firms.
<a href=“http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/law%20schools_charts_page12.pdf[/url]”>http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/law%20schools_charts_page12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Obviously the second graph needs to have a clerkship adjustment. You can use the BCG law report for this, but this only matters at the top few schools or so.
<a href=“http://www.bcgsearch.com/pdf/BCG_Law_School_Guide_2009.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bcgsearch.com/pdf/BCG_Law_School_Guide_2009.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;