So the final results are in, and since my earlier post, there have (happily) been many more reports of rookie hires came in, and the total this year is over 100, but still down from last year. (There have also been additions to my laterals list, but the total is still half of what it was last year.) Professor Lawsky has kindly made available a test site where you can produce your own graphs based on her data.

(One interesting chart in the report shows that while six schools [Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Chicago, NYU, and Columbia] account for as much as half the new rookie hires many years, many other schools regularly place graduates in law teaching. One data point not reflected in the charts–but worth keeping in mind–is that placement rates, even among the “top six” vary quite a bit. NYU Furman Fellows, for example, do well on the market pretty consistently, but NYU’s placement rate [i.e., the percentage of all NYU candidates on the market who get jobs] is low [one out of four most years, or less], compared to Yale or Chicago. [Chicago’s placement rate for alumni this year was over 80%, for example.] NYU just sends a lot of folks on the market, but most do not secure positions.)