If you ask James Leipold, the executive director of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), he’ll tell you there are many job opportunities for law school graduates.

Commenting on his organization’s findings for the class of 2013′s employment outcomes (pdf), he writes: “The variety and diversity of jobs that law grads take now is greater than ever. In general, the picture that emerges is one of slow growth, and growth that is a blend of continued shrinkage and downsizing in some areas offset by growth in other areas.”