Update on activities of The NALP Foundation
Why do some laterally hired associates leave and why do some stay? How can you instill the same level of loyalty among lateral associates that is found in entry-level associates?
Here are some key findings from the NALP Foundation's latest report on associate attrition and the reasons for associate departures.
Members of the NALP Foundation staff share key takeaways from the ninth annual U.S. Alumni Employment & Satisfaction Study, including employment trends, professional satisfaction, educational debt, and experiential education.
The NALP Foundation shares data from the recently released Law School Alumni Employment & Satisfaction Study for the Class of 2021. The study has historically explored employment levels, career satisfaction, and assessment of legal education’s efficacy, and this year it adds important new information on graduates’ career aspirations and geographic dispersion while continuing to highlight the ongoing high levels of mobility for young lawyers at the three-year mark after graduation.
NALP Foundation education programs and fast facts.
NALP Foundation releases a new study on attrition that reveals high rates -- and that most departures occur during the fourth and fifth years of an associate's tenure with a firm.
This report includes in-depth information on attrition rates, the factors influencing associate departures, and the reasons reported for their departures.
NALP and the NALP Foundation have partnered to undertake new research that will measure law school graduate employment status and career satisfaction on an annual basis at three years and seven years post-graduation.
Whether you are new to legal employment, in the middle of your career, or an experienced NALP member, we could use your help in 2020.
The third alumni study included analyses of employment status, compensation, and mobility among the Class of 2012 law graduates, as well as on an array of satisfaction dimensions.
Leaders from the Center for Women in Law and the NALP Foundation share results of a joint study on opportunities for women of color in the legal profession.
The NALP Foundation’s Fiona Trevelyan Hornblower, Skip Horne, and Jennifer Mandery highlight the 25th Anniversary of the organization as part of NALP’s 50th Anniversary in 2021.
Paula Patton was honored during the Annual Education Conference in Toronto for her contributions as NALP Executive Director and for her role in launching and heading the NALP Foundation.
Work is beginning on round two of the After the JD study.
Attorneys in all practice settings commonly complain about the lack of balance between their personal lives and professional lives. To help addressing such work-life conflicts, the NALP Foundation conducted a cross-profession study.
The After the JD project is the largest and most ambitious study of lawyer careers ever undertaken; it will eventually track the professional lives of more than 5,000 year 2000 law school graduates over their first ten years of after law school.
Key findings from a research study of law firm use of core competencies and benchmarks by the NALP Foundation and the Professional Development Consortium (PDC).
These studies revealed differences in the value placed on law school experiential learning opportunities by law firm associates and public service lawyers.
Longtime association contributor Fiona Trevelyan Hornblower has taken on a new role as President and CEO of the NALP Foundation.
The NALP Foundation is launching research panels that involve NALP members.
Update on The NALP Foundation's activities.
The second wave of AJD findings offer information on respondents' satisfaction levels with a number of aspects of their legal careers.
The NALP Foundation will soon release its fourth benchmark study of associate attrition during a period that spans almost 20 years.
NALP and the NALP Foundation report on the 10th annual U.S. Law School Alumni Employment and Satisfaction Study for the Class of 2009.
Update on Foundation activities.
After only a few years, and with limited resources and staff, research and education from the NALP Foundation have already proved to be valued resources for law firms, law schools, and corporations.
Overall, only about two-thirds of students reported that their summer experience was a positive influence on their interest in practicing for an employer similar to their summer employer.
A look at the findings of the NALP Foundation's latest survey of associate attrition.
The findings from the third wave of this longitudinal study that has followed a cohort of law graduates who were admitted to the bar in 2000 offer numerous perspectives on the careers of these lawyers and perhaps a few surprises as well.
The latest study of associate attrition has been expanded to include more extensive analyses of associate departures.
Are you keeping your keepers? NALP Foundation launches new attrition survey.
The second wave of AJD findings provides added, and sometimes surprising, insights on the influence of debt on the career choices of lawyers.
The new normal that panelists at the most recent Roundtable on the Future of Lawyer Hiring, Development, and Advancement see emerging involves more careful management, more purposeful action, more people in more dialogue about more decisions, more contingency planning, more thoughtful recruiting, and more work directly with law school CSO offices.
A NALP Foundation and West LegalEdcenter study provides new benchmarking data on law firm professional development resources.
The NALP Foundations latest study, Should I Stay or Should I Go, looks at Canadian law firms and provides actionable information on what is most important to Canadian associates for remaining at their firms, now and as their careers progress.
Research results depend on participants
Tammy Patterson has succeeded Paula Patton as the CEO/President of the NALP Foundation.
After the JD will track a cohort of new lawyers over the first ten years of their careers. . . . Work on the second wave of the study is now beginning.
A new monograph based on the first wave of AJD findings shows that while the experiences of men and women in the legal profession are similar in many ways, there are also key differences.
News from the NALP Foundation on what is right with the law.
Because a graduate's initial nine-month employment status has never been an adequate measure of either career satisfaction or the value of a legal education, NALP and The NALP Foundation are launching an exciting new research project to measure and report on law school alumni employment status and career satisfaction three years after graduation.
In 2015, for the second year in a row, lateral hiring outpaced entry-level hiring — just one of the findings of the NALP Foundation's newly released study.
The third wave of this longitudinal study of law graduates who were admitted to the bar in 2000 provides numerous insights into lawyer career paths.
Discussion at the fifth Roundtable on the Future of Lawyer Hiring, Development, and Advancement made it clear that law schools, law firms, and other legal employers are changing in ways that are likely to be permanent.
While the overall attrition rate remained essentially unchanged over the past year, findings from the NALP Foundation's annual study of associate attrition reveal considerable differences between 2009 and 2010 in employment destinations for departing associates, reasons for departures, and associates' status within their firms when they left.
University of California Berkeley School of Law’s Terrence J. Galligan explores the history of NALP from the years 1990-2008 as part of the association’s 50th Anniversary celebration.
Law school alumni from the Class of 2014, when surveyed three years after graduation, reported higher employment rates, higher aggregate salaries, lower rates of intention to change jobs, were more often working as a practicing lawyer, and reported higher overall satisfaction with their current job than did graduates from the Classes of 2010 and 2011. The data give us another measure to assess the improvement in the law school graduate employment market following the recession.
The NALP Foundation's newest study includes detailed results to enable firms to tailor their retention efforts to focus on the issues associates say are critical to their tenure, while illuminating key issues for the legal profession as a whole.
This article explores the current state of mental health among early-career lawyers and offers actionable steps for law schools and legal organizations to address these pressing issues.
A new resource explains international lawyer qualificattions.
What does it take to become a partner in today's law firms? A new NALP Foundation research report provides new insights on the factors affecting associate advancement.
The NALP Foundation has just released its associate attrition findings for calendar year 2013.
Data from the first wave of the After the JD Study suggest that there is no single minority experience that distinguishes between lawyers of color and their white peers. Rather, each group presents a unique profile.
Update on The NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education
Update on The NALP Foundation's activities.
After the JD first findings to be released.
Research suggests that law firms can distinguish themselves with a top-notch associate assessment process. Reduced associate attrition could be one of the outcomes.
The NALP Foundation is pleased to welcome Michelle Nash as its new Senior Vice President.
What a difference nine months make! When NALP and the NALP Foundation began a series of Roundtables on the Future of Lawyer Hiring, Development, and Advancement in June 2009, law firms, law schools, and client corporations were staggering under the weight of the worst of the recession, with no clear end in sight.
A new resource of particular interest to anyone charged to make judgments regarding foreign-trained lawyer credentials or transitions of U.S.-trained lawyers to global environments...
NALP Foundation to have its own Executive Director.
The NALP Foundation has announced new online research panels as well as new Get Results workshops. The first Get Results workshops will be on associate evaluations.
A NALP Foundation update.
The NALP Foundation has just released its associate attrition update for 2009. Here are some key findings.
Law firms spend enormous amounts of time and effort on associates’ performance evaluations as a critical tool to understand talent management, associate development and engagement. To find if there is a more better way to optimize these tools, improve processes, and make them more effective, the NALP Foundation launched a new study, "Measuring What Matters: Evaluation Practices in Leading Law Firms." This article reveals the results.
After the JD findings about minority women in the legal profession
The NALP Foundation released a comprehensive new report on a national cross-profession study of lawyer work-life balance in late September.
The After the JD research is the largest and most ambitious study ever undertaken by researchers of the legal profession, and it aims to create a definitive picture of how the early careers of lawyers develop in the early 21st century.
Fund-raising remains a priority for the NALP Foundation as new research projects are approved.
This new survey on experiential learning sought responses from government and nonprofit lawyers.
Second wave findings from After the JD now available.
