The NALP Foundation will discuss what the data reported by the Class of 2019 in the Foundation’s latest Alumni Employment and Satisfaction study reveals. The newest report – the tenth of its kind – examines employment status, compensation, and mobility, as well as satisfaction dimensions reflecting how well these alumni felt their legal education prepared them for practice. This year’s study reflects data collected from over 2,290 alumni participants across the US and Canada.
Responding to key concerns in the legal profession, the Foundation added new queries this year on Professional Identity Formation, prior work experience, recruitment timing for post-graduate positions, and reasons for graduates’ job changes, while retaining prior queries about graduates’ law school-specific debt and preferences for post-graduate engagement with their law schools (providing critical insights for alumni outreach and development efforts). The report also probes the differentiated experience of graduates of color, and includes additional statistics for first-generation graduates, LGBTQ alumni, and graduates with mental and physical disabilities.
Introduction: Robin Fulton Langhans, Director of Alumni Relations, CLE & Special Events, The Pennsylvania State University – Dickinson Law
Speakers:
Fiona Trevelyan Hornblower, President and CEO, NALP Foundation
Jennifer Mandery, Vice President for Research, NALP Foundation
