Reuters · October 14, 2026

NALP: More Than 94% of White 2025 Law Graduates Were Employed Within 10 Months, Compared With Less Than 91% of Graduates of Color

• More than 94% of white law graduates from 2025 found jobs within 10 months, compared with less than 91% of law graduates of color, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Association for Law Placement (NALP).
• Black law graduates had an employment rate of 87%, down from nearly 90% in 2024; Hispanic law graduates were slightly over 91%, down from more than 92% the previous year; Asian law graduates held steady at about 92%, according to NALP data cited in the report.
• Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander law graduates had an employment rate of more than 96%, according to the report.
• White law graduates outpaced every racial group except Middle Eastern or North African law graduates in securing jobs that require passing the bar, according to the NALP data.
• First-generation college students had a lower employment rate than law graduates whose parents attended college or law school, according to the report; no rate for that comparison is given in the source.
• Nearly 50 U.S. law firms that previously provided NALP with demographic data about their lawyers declined to do so this year, according to the report, with NALP attributing the drop to the Trump administration's actions on law firm diversity programs.

Employment figures via NALP, as reported by Reuters. Original headline: "Racial employment gap widened among new US lawyers, study finds".