The After the JD project (AJD) releases its second report on a 10-year study of career outcomes of a cohort of almost 5,000 lawyers who passed the bar in 2000, 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.

Jointly published by the American Bar Foundation and the NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education, the report, After the JD II: Second Results of a National Study of Legal Careers, may be purchased on the NALP website.

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