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It was a GOOD week for law grads who don’t practice law, after a Harvard Law study showed that even a high percent of Harvard law grads don’t practice law.

About 28 percent of Harvard law grads from four graduating classes no longer practicing law, according to the study of grads from 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2000. The data was collected in 2009 for the career study by Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession.

The results are similar to the findings of other studies. After the JD study found that 24 percent of surveyed lawyers who passed the bar in 2000 were not practicing law in 2012.

The study was done to determine the success of female graduates. It found that women left law firms at higher rates than men, except for the class of 2000. For the class of 1975, 56.4 percent of males were working at law firms, compared to 30 percent of females. 

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