The top tier firms still pay $160,000 as starting salary, same as since 2007, but they are hiring a lot fewer people. New law grad salaries have been more and m

The top tier firms still pay $160,000 as starting salary, same as since 2007, but they are hiring a lot fewer people. New law grad salaries have been more and more binodal over the last few decades, with the other local maximum at around $55,000, and an increasing share of the new grads getting stuck at the low end.