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<p>This is a good place to start:</p>
<p><a href=“http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/20080414employment_trends.pdf[/url]”>http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/20080414employment_trends.pdf</a></p>
<p>This chart surveyed results from year of 2005, when legal industry was much healthier than it has been in recent years. As a result, you should expect the job placements from each school on that chart to be worse today. (actually, much worse)</p>
<p>In 2005, a top 30 law school such as Emory Law placed 20% of their grads into decent-sized legitimate law firm jobs. In today’s economy, I would guess ~10-15% of grads from a Top 30 law school ending up with decent firm jobs.</p>
<p>Also, a tier two law school such as Brooklyn or American University Law only placed 10% of their grads into NLJ250 firm jobs, during a great economy. That means that in the current market, like one person out of those schools would end up with a six figure law firm job after law school graduation.</p>