Ohio’s Law School Class of 2010: Employment Numbers Study
The latest issue of Ohio Lawyer [KF200 .O195], the member magazine of the Ohio State Bar Association, features an article of certain interest to students and recent grads: “The law school class of 2010: The real employment numbers” by Jason M. Dolin [full text]. In researching his article, Dolin made a public records request to Ohio’s five public law schools asking for actual employment data.
Below, I summarize Dolin’s findings on eight trends in Ohio public law schools. The national averages (where provided in the text of the article) are based upon data from the National Association of Law Placement (NALP).
| Trend | Ohio % Low | Ohio % High | National % |
| Percentage in full time/JD-required jobs | 40.3% | 67% | 64% |
| Percentage in full time/JD-required and part time JD-required jobs | 61.2% | 74.11% | 68.4% |
| Percentage in private law practice | 33.33% | 48.32% | 50.9% |
| Percentage in small practice | 47.22% | 81.25% | |
| Percentage in solo practice | 4.16% | 15.3% | 5.7% |
| Percentage in “mega” firms | 0% | 19.4% | 20.5% |
| Percentage with law school debt | 82.12% | 90.24% | |
| Amount of law school debt | $58,455 | $81,408 | $68,827.36 |
