Law Degree Losing Its Luster?

[Low C Sharp]

to the school, you are considered employed after law school whether you are an associate in a top firm or whether you are a barrista at the Starbuck's on the first floor of the building where that other graduate works.

Not to come to your school's defense, but external forces put that system in place. The ABA, USNews, and NALP have rules about how employment stats are reported; schools must publish them that way.

Schools that really care about transparency will ALSO publish more detailed stats about who's working outside of the legal field, part-time, etc. So I'm not saying the schools are blameless. They just didn't come up with the idea of including the Starbucks baristas as "employed" -- they were asked to do that.

Even when schools are up front about the bad job odds, students ignore the ugly stats or think they'll be in the lucky group. It's just what aggieAXO is saying about the new vets. You can tell them that 90% of the grads are starving...a whole lot of people think, "But I'll be in the 10%."