Time once again to collect information for the entry level hiring report. (View the 2025 report.)

Starting sometime in May, I will post draft reports on the Lawsky Projects website. I will post here on PrawfsBlawg to let people know when I start posting those drafts. Once the report is finalized, probably in mid- to late-summer, I will post the final version of the report here on PrawfsBlawg.

I am gathering the following information for tenure-track, clinical, or legal writing full-time entry-level hires:

• Basic Information: Name, Hiring School, JD Institution, JD Year of Graduation
• Other Degrees: Type of Degree, Degree Granting Institution, Degree Subject
• Fellowship, VAP, or Visiting Professorship: Institution and Type (e.g., VAP, name of fellowship, etc.)
• Clerkship: Court (e.g., 9th Circuit, Texas Supreme Court, etc.)
• Areas of Speciality (up to four) (if you are a clinical or LRW hire, please list this as your first Area of Specialty)
• Type of Position: Tenure Track or Non-Tenure Track (if you are clinical or LRW and also tenure-track, please indicate this)

The information is aggregated on a spreadsheet (which you can view and download by clicking on this link). The spreadsheet includes some information that I pulled from public sources, such as X, BlueSky, or law school websites. When that is the case, I’ve included the relevant link. If I have included your information from a public source and you would like me to correct or update it, please just let me know.

If you have information to add to the sheet, please email me at slawsky *at* illinois *dot* edu. You cannot edit the spreadsheet yourself.

Remember: you can’t edit the spreadsheet yourself. To get your information into the spreadsheet, you must email me.

If you see any errors, or if I have incorporated your information into the spreadsheet but you are not yet ready to make it public, please don’t hesitate to email me, and I will take care of the problem as soon as I can.

Clarifications:

The list does not include someone who was a full-time non-tenure track clinician at a school that does not provide tenure to clinicians, and then moves as a clinician to a school that does provide tenure to clinicians, with credit for their prior work experience as a full-time faculty member. This person does not seem to be an entry-level hire. However, someone who was a full-time professor (clinical or otherwise) at one school, and then moved to an entry-level position (clinical or otherwise) with a tenure track or promotional clock that started fresh, would be an entry-level hire.

The list does include people who had a non-professor job in a law school and then moved to a professor job that was tenure track. Thus a person may have worked at a law school for many years, but still be considered an entry level hire. To indicate this situation, I will put their previous job at a law school in the “fellowship” category, and note “non-TT to TT” in the “Notes” category. This is not to indicate that this isn’t an entry-level hire, but rather to give information about the nature of the item listed as a fellowship. (I.e., not a temporary position, as fellowships usually are.)

View last year’s report.