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Research Library

All reports in LSAC’s Research Library are available upon request. Executive summaries are available below for the latest LSAT Technical Reports and other research published within the last 10 years.

Looking for older reports? Consult the Research Archive

Current Research:

2025 1L Class: Student Awareness and Impact of Accelerated Big Law Recruitment

In a first of its kind report, LSAC and NALP examine the student perspective of accelerated recruiting, disruptions to the 1L curriculum, and the inequities such practices may perpetuate regarding access to Big Law careers.

LSAC’s Knowledge Report: The Composition of the First-Year Law School Class and Enrollment 2021-2025 Trends

This report focuses on first-year law school enrollment from 2021 through 2025, highlighting who is enrolling in law school, where they enrolled, and how rates of enrollment of racially and ethnically minoritized students varied across law schools.

First-Year Law School Class: A Focus on Students with Disabilities, 2024 Update

This report provides insight into how students with disabilities in the 2024-2025 1L class navigated the law school application process.

The 2024 1L Class: Persistence in the First Year of Law School

This report provides important insights that law schools and stakeholders can use to support student retention and development in law school and beyond.

Funding the First Year: How 2024 1Ls Paid for Law School

What funding sources did the 2024 1L class use to pay for law school? How much debt do they expect to have when they graduate?

LSAC’s Knowledge Report: The 2024 1L Profile

This report focuses on the 2024 1L class, examining who is enrolling in law school, where they enrolled, and how they made their enrollment decision.

LSAC’s Knowledge Report: The Composition of the First-Year Law School Class and Enrollment Trends

This report focuses on first-year law school enrollment from 2021 through 2024, highlighting who is enrolling in law school, where they enrolled, and how rates of enrollment of racially and ethnically minoritized students varied across law schools.

First-Year Law School Class: A Focus on Students with Disabilities, 2023 Update

Based on survey responses from 2023 law school matriculants, this report provides nuanced information about factors that affect law school decision-making processes for students with disabilities.

LSAC’s Knowledge Report: The 2023 1L Profile

This report focuses on the 2023 1L class, examining who is enrolling in law school, where they enrolled, and how they made their enrollment decision.

LGBTQ+ Inclusion: From Candidate to Law Student, 2024 Update

An in-depth look at how law schools are supporting LGBTQ+ individuals through their legal education journey.

2022 First-Year Law School Class: A Focus on Students with Disabilities

Based on survey responses from 2022 law school matriculants, this report provides nuanced information about factors that affect law school decision-making processes for students with disabilities.

LGBTQ+ Inclusion: From Candidate to Law Student

The LSAC Research team has issued a first-of-its-kind report offering a highly nuanced perspective on how law schools support LGBTQ+ students.
By Elizabeth Bodamer and Debra Langer

Upending “Normal”: Toward an Integrated and Intersectional Approach to DEI

As paradigms change in the legal profession, from the way law is practiced to the way firms operate, we must ask ourselves a very simple question: Can we upend the “normal” way we have approached diversity, equity, and inclusion work so we can improve outcomes for individuals from marginalized identities?

Justice-Impacted Individuals in the Pipeline: A National Exploration of Law School Policies and Practices

Data shows that justice-impacted individuals face a particularly difficult path to legal education. Is it time to talk about reform?

Law School Alumni Networks and Legal Labor Markets: An Empirical Investigation of Law School Graduate Career Attainment (GR 13-03)

This project examined the relevance of law school alumni networks to graduates’ careers. Two studies investigated intraorganizational and interorganizational influences on graduates’ careers; an ongoing third study investigates how these influences vary by gender, race/ethnicity, and school attended.

Law Firm Employment Practices and the Representation of Minority Associates and Partners (GR 14-01)

Although law schools have seen rising representation of diverse racial/ethnic groups among students, minorities continue to represent disproportionately small percentages of lawyers within large corporate law firms. Prior research on the nature and causes of minority underrepresentation in such firms has been sparse. In this research project, we examined variation across large U.S.