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April 21, 2011

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anon

Credit where credit due - these are Sarah Lawsky's diagrams :) And "data" are plural...

Alfred Brophy

The diagram I'm most interested in is the one for the "number of years out" -- am I reading it correctly that it's based on 121 total hires and that 38 of those 121 have been out ten or more years? So about one-third of new hires have ten or more years experience? And that only about 15% have four or fewer years' experience. My sense is that this is a shift from a decade or so ago when I was following these things more closely. Do others think this is a change as well? And if so, is this, perhaps, a positive reaction to the calls for schools to focus on practical legal education?

CBR

Re: years out--I would think that this could represent more practice experience, but it could also represent the growing prevalence of VAPS. Clerkships, some practice experience, and a couple years of a VAP or fellowship (or both) could easily put someone at the 10-year mark.

Alfred Brophy

Excellent point, CBR. Perhaps it's a combination of things, including longer practice experience and VAPs, maybe some in PhD programs, too. I'm guessing that nearly two decades ago when I first started teaching that fewer entry-level faculty were a decade out of law school than now. I'd be interested in some data on this.

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