The employment picture is looking up for recent law grads — at least a little bit.

New figures from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) show that offer rates to summer associates rose from the historic low of 69 percent in 2009 to 87 percent in 2010. That 18 percent increase puts offer rates back in the ballpark of the 90 percent offer rates of 2008, which was the last summer program season before the financial crisis hit in earnest.

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