Andy had been keeping up with the poor state of the U.S. legal market a few years ago, and it seems like a good idea to continue his efforts. The recent positive U.S. job report for January 2016 had some minor bad news for the legal profession: a loss of 1,400 lawyers , or 0.12% from December.
But the sour news was completely offset by the 95 percent of law students who spent last summer clerking at a law firm and received an offer to work full-time at the firm after graduation. Read about it here , but the takeaway is that the effect of the ’08 recession was over last year, partially because the law school bubble has finished it’s big pop:
The 95 percent offer rate was up from 93 percent in 2014, and a marked increase from the low of 69 percent in 2009.