长期存在的美国初级律师就业中的种族差距在2025届毕业生中进一步扩大，新数据显示，白人法学毕业生的就业率高于黑人、西班牙裔和亚洲同学。
Longstanding racial gaps in US entry-level lawyer employment increased for 2025 graduates, with white law graduates securing jobs at a higher rate than their Black, Hispanic and Asian classmates, new data show.
根据全国法律安置协会（NALP）周三发布的数据，2025届白人法学毕业生中超过94%的人在10个月内找到了工作，而有色人种法学毕业生的这一比例低于91%。
More than 94% of 2025’s white law graduates found jobs within 10 months, compared to less than 91% of law graduates of color, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Association for Law Placement.
NALP数据显示，黑人法学毕业生的就业率最低，为87%，而2024年这一比例仍接近90%。2025届西班牙裔法学毕业生的就业率略高于91%，而去年这一比例超过92%。亚洲法学毕业生的就业率保持稳定，约为92%。
Black law graduates had the lowest employment rate at 87%, down from nearly 90% in 2024, the NALP data showed. The employment rate for 2025 Hispanic law graduates was slightly over 91%, down from more than 92% the previous year. The employment rate for Asian law graduates held steady at about 92%.
相对较小的夏威夷原住民或太平洋岛民法学毕业生群体的就业率最高，超过96%。
The relatively small cohort of Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander law graduates posted the highest employment rate at more than 96%.
“法学学位应该打开大门，但NALP最新报告表明，这些大门并不对每个人都同样敞开，”NALP执行主任尼基亚·格雷在发布数据后发表声明时表示。
“A law degree should open doors, but NALP's latest report shows that those doors are not equally open to everyone,” NALP Executive Director Nikia Gray said in a statement after releasing the data.
2025届法学毕业生在特朗普政府广泛开展的旨在消除高等教育、政府和私营部门多元化、公平与包容（DEI）项目的运动中进入就业市场。2025年3月，美国平等就业机会委员会要求20家主要公司提供详细的招聘数据，包括申请人姓名以及种族或性别是否影响了他们的雇佣决定。
The law graduates of 2025 hit the job market amid the Trump administration’s widespread campaign to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education, government and the private sector. In March 2025, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demanded detailed hiring data from 20 major firms, including applicant names and whether race or gender influenced their employment decisions.
今年早些时候，美国联邦贸易委员会警告42家主要律师事务所，其招聘做法可能违反联邦反垄断法。多元化实验室（Diversity Lab）——一个致力于推动律师事务所多元化目标的组织——在接受FTC审查后于6月关闭。
The US Federal Trade Commission earlier this year warned 42 major law firms that their hiring practices may violate federal antitrust law. Diversity Lab, a group that promoted diversity goals at law firms, shuttered in June after coming under FTC scrutiny.
路透社的一份特别报道发现，自特朗普重返白宫以来，许多大型律师事务所已公开撤回或修改其对多元化、公平与包容（DEI）的公开引用。此前曾向全国律师协会（NALP）提供律师人口统计数据的近50家美国律师事务所今年拒绝提供此类数据，NALP将这一下降归因于特朗普对律师事务所DEI工作的打压。
Many major law firms have publicly withdrawn or altered their public references to diversity, equity and inclusion since Trump returned to the White House, a Reuters special report found. Nearly 50 US law firms that previously provided NALP with demographic data about their lawyers declined to do so this year, with NALP attributing the drop to Trump’s crackdown on law firm DEI efforts.
此外，美国教育部正准备撤销美国律师协会（ABA）作为美国法学院联邦认可认证机构的资格，部分原因是其认为ABA在取消法学院DEI标准方面用时过长。
Additionally, the US Department of Education is poised to revoke the American Bar Association’s status as the federally recognized accreditor of US law schools, partly because it says the ABA took too long to eliminate DEI standards for schools.
根据NALP的最新数据，白人法学毕业生在获得需要通过律师资格考试的工作方面，除中东或北非法学毕业生外，超过了所有其他种族群体——这一标准被视为法律就业的金标准。第一代大学生的就业率低于父母曾上大学或法学院的法学毕业生。
According to the new NALP data, white law graduates outpaced every racial group except for Middle Eastern or North African law graduates in securing jobs that require passing the bar — considered the gold standard for legal employment. First-generation college students had a lower employment rate than law graduates whose parents attended college or law school.
面对DEI压力，一些律师事务所在最新的多元化调查中选择隐藏数据。律师事务所多元化小组在特朗普的DEI打压中关闭。
Facing DEI pressures, some law firms shield data in latest diversity survey Law firm diversity group shutters amid Trump's DEI crackdown