Inc. All rights reserved. The largest firms of 251 or more attorneys, by comparison, provided just over 4,000 jobs. Underlying these averages, which are based on counts of graduates, are 173 law schools, each of which has its own profile with respect to graduate employment. Taken together, these 173 profiles provide a different look at graduate employment. Table 1 shows, for five law firm size categories, the range of percentages of employed graduates in that category, based on 173 schools, as well as the median percentage and the middle range.
Most schools fall into the top half on one measure and the bottom half of the other measure.
Schools falling in the other quadrants may be characterized as having relatively large numbers of graduates taking public service jobs, or as having many graduates go to small firms, while at the same time a sizable minority go into larger firms.