Firm named a Diversity & Inclusion Leader by Lawyers of Color
Lawyers of Color has named Dykema one if its Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Leaders. As published in the “Black Student’s Guide to Law Schools & Firms,” Dykema is ranked 38th amongst large law firms with 4.85 percent black attorneys.
According to Lawyers of Color, the D&I Leader designation is presented to law firms with a black attorney percentage of 3.8 percent or more based on data collected in the “Black Student’s Guide to Law Schools & Firms,” the first ever comprehensive listing of black attorney percentages at nearly 400 law firms, including the nation's largest firms.
SBM?Litigation Section to host Bench/Bar Mixer at DIA?May 1
The State Bar of Michigan Litigation Section is hosting a Bench/Bar Mixer at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the Rivera Courtyard from 6-9 p.m. on May 1. There will be approximately 150 lawyers in attendance, with approximately 30 judicial guests from all levels of the court system.
ABA section releases employment data for 2018 graduating class
Employment data for the graduating law class of 2018 as reported by American Bar Association-approved law schools to the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is now publicly available.
An online table provides select national outcomes and side-by-side comparisons for the classes of 2017 and 2018. Further reports on employment outcomes, including links to individual school outcomes and spreadsheets aggregating those reports are available on the ABA Required Disclosures page of the section’s website.
The employment market for law graduates has stabilized since 2012-13 and is showing incremental improvement. For the class of 2018, the aggregated school data shows that 78.6 percent of the 2018 graduates of the 200 law schools enrolling students and approved by the ABA to offer the J.D. degree were employed in full-time long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D. Advantage jobs roughly 10 months after graduation. That compares to 75.3 percent of the graduates reporting similar full-time long-term jobs last year.
The higher percentage of students so employed, however, results from both a modest increase in jobs and an approximately 2 percent decrease in the size of the graduating class. The actual number of full-time long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D. Advantage jobs increased by 714 (2.72 percent) year-over-year, going from 26,293 in 2017 to 27,007 in 2018.
The ABA’s accrediting body, under Standard 509 of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools, requires schools to report to the ABA and publicly disclose varied information, including employment outcomes. Employment and other statistics are posted to the section’s statistics website. Earlier this month, the section released both individual school and aggregate bar passage statistics.
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