Will 2024 Law Grads Find Jobs After Law School Enrollment Boom? Location May Be Everything - Law.com

What You Need to Know

• Law school admissions are up 11.8% over last year, according to new American Bar Association data, causing some to worry whether job growth will be unable to keep pace.
• Law school admissions deans have pushed back on the suggestion that they've over enrolled students.
• The type of job market new grads enter in three years' time may be largely dependent on geographic location.

Enrollment for 2021 at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University was the largest class “in our more than 50-year history with over 300 first-year J.D. students attending,” Andrew Jaynes, assistant dean of admissions at the law school told Law.com on Monday.

The law school enrolled 234 1L students in 2020 and enrolled 307 in 2021, according to the school’s 509 Reports.

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source: https://www.law.com/2021/12/22/will-2024-law-grads-find-jobs-after-law-school-enrollment-boom-location-may-be-everything/

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