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Entry-level legal academic hiring down 57.5%

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Per Sarah Lawsky’s survey. (Lawsky’s survey isn’t complete, but the methodology is consistent from year to year, and appears to capture about 80% of entry level hires). Per this data ABA law schools were consistently hiring about 150 entry-level tenure track faculty each year, with no real slowdown in that rate until last year’s hiring cycle, despite gathering storm clouds.

The prior failure of law schools to pare back entry-level hiring (each entry-level hire is essentially a multimillion dollar institutional commitment, since tenure standards at 95% of law schools are pro forma) even in the face of sharply declining applications and far too few jobs for their grads, was a classic symptom of University Administrator Syndrome, i.e., a condition that causes otherwise intelligent people to treat spending more money this year than last to be the only meaningful metric for measuring “success.” But as the latest numbers demonstrate, the law school reform movement is having a real impact on this as well.

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