TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Oct 21, 2024

Despite the blockbuster job market for new law graduates in 2023, racial and ethnicity disparities in employment rates remained, according to recent data released by the National Association for Law Placement. Disparities were seen in legal jobs that require bar admission with 84% of those going to white graduates, as well as all legal jobs with 94% of those going to white law graduates, Reuters reports. Even as gaps narrowed for most minority groups, the employment disparity between white and Latino law graduates increased from last year. Those disparities are widest when looking at legal jobs that require bar admission. The new figures came amid an unusually robust job market for 2023 law graduates. Overall 92.6% of them landed jobs within 10 months of graduation — up half a percentage point from 2022.