After the JD

David B. Wilkins Robert L. Nelson Ronit Dinovitzer Meghan Dawe
After the JD Career paths Debt Gender Non-legal careers Race
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Run out of the American Bar Foundation (ABF), the After the JD (AJD) project is an empirical study of the career outcomes of a cohort of almost 5,000 new lawyers, offering both a nationally representative picture of lawyer career trajectories and an in-depth portrait of the careers of women and racial and ethnic minority lawyers. The AJD study design is longitudinal, following the careers of new lawyers over the first ten years following law school graduation; the first cohort of lawyers was surveyed in 2002, the second in 2007, and the third in 2010.

More information on the After the JD project is available here.

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