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Career Placement Success

No. 3 in the percentage of Class of 2017 graduates who took jobs at law firms of 100 or more attorneys, according to American Bar Association data on the most recently reported class.

Virginia has graduates in each of the American Lawyer top 100 firms (as of May 2018).

No. 2 in the number of graduates leading the nation's top 100 firms, according to an Above the Law report. More

No. 2 in Above the Law's 2018 law school rankings, which focus on employment outcomes. More

No. 4 after Yale, Harvard and Stanford in placing clerks on the U.S. Supreme Court from 2005-18. More

No. 4 in the percentage of Class of 2017 graduates hired by the 100 largest firms, according to the National Law Journal. More

No. 5 in the number of associates promoted to partner in the 100 largest firms in 2017, according to the National Law Journal. More

No. 5 in federal judicial clerkship placement for the classes of 2013-17, according to ABA data

No. 2 after Harvard in the number of chief legal officers at the nation's top 500 companies, according to a 2014 report by the Law Department Management Blog. More

No. 4 in the number of partners in the National Law Journal's top 500 firms, according Legal Compass (June 2018).

National Placement: The Class of 2017 obtained large firm jobs in 18 states, the District of Columbia and 3 foreign countries. Overall we sent graduates to 30 states, D.C. and 4 foreign countries.

 

Where Our Graduates Go, Classes of 2015-17

• Firm: 70% (668)
• Clerkship: 17% (159)
• Public Interest: 11% (107)
• Corporate: 3% (28)
• Academic: .4% (4)
• The Law School awarded 57 Powell and Kennedy Fellowships to graduates working for public interest and nonprofit employers. More

Law Firms

• 77% with firms in American Lawyer's top 100 by gross revenue
• 8% with firms ranked between 100 and 200
• 3% with large international firms (not ranked by American Lawyer)
• 12% with smaller firms

Clerkships

• 3 U.S. Supreme Court
• 83 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal
• 119 U.S. District Courts and other federal courts
• 82 state courts

Some alumni clerked at multiple courts.

Public Interest Jobs

• 23 federal government
• 48 state or local government
• 28 public interest groups
• 8 military

Top Job Locations

• New York (225)
• District of Columbia (193)
• Virginia (116)
• California (81)
• Texas (62)
• Pennsylvania (24)
• Massachusetts (22)
• Maryland (20)
• Georgia (19)
• Delaware (17)
• North Carolina (17)
• International (16)
• Florida (15)
• Ohio (13)
• Colorado (11)
• Tennessee (11)

Campus Recruiting, Fall 2017

• More than 675 offices
• Over 5,900 on-campus interviews of second-year students

First-Year Summer Jobs, Class of 2019 (Summer 2017)

Several students held multiple positions.

• 26% federal government
• 25% firm
• 15% judicial
• 15% academic
• 11% public interest groups
• 9% state or local government
• 6% corporate

American Lawyer Top 100, Classes of 2012-15

Among the 2015 Am Law 100, the Classes of 2012-15 are represented in 95 of the 100 firms.

RANK	FIRM
1	Latham & Watkins
2	Baker & McKenzie
3	DLA Piper
4	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
5	Kirkland & Ellis
6	Jones Day
7	Norton Rose Fulbright
8	Hogan Lovells
9	Sidley Austin
10	White & Case
11	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
12	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
13	Sullivan & Cromwell
14	Dentons
15	Greenberg Traurig
16	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
17	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
18	Mayer Brown
19	Reed Smith
20	Weil, Gotshal & Manges
21	K&L Gates
22	Ropes & Gray
23	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
24	Davis Polk & Wardwell
25	Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
26	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
27	Paul Hastings
28	Morrison & Foerster
29	King & Spalding
30	McDermott Will & Emery
31	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
32	Squire Patton Boggs
33	Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
34	Shearman & Sterling
35	Dechert
36	Proskauer Rose
37	Cooley
38	Goodwin Procter
38	Winston & Strawn
40	Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
41	Debevoise & Plimpton
43	Covington & Burling
45	Arnold & Porter
46	Holland & Knight
47	Bingham McCutchen
47	Foley & Lardner
47	O’Melveny & Myers
50	Vinson & Elkins
51	Baker Botts
52	Cravath, Swaine & Moore
53	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
54	Alston & Bird
55	Willkie Farr & Gallagher
56	Bryan Cave
57	McGuireWoods
58	Baker & Hostetler
59	Hunton & Williams
60	Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
62	Littler Mendelson
63	Katten Muchin Rosenman
64	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
65	Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
66	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
67	Faegre Baker Daniels
68	Venable
69	Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
70	Duane Morris
71	Locke Lord
72	Troutman Sanders
73	Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
74	Jenner & Block
75	Nixon Peabody
76	Schulte Roth & Zabel
77	Williams & Connolly
78	Hughes Hubbard & Reed
80	Pepper Hamilton
81	Drinker Biddle & Reath
82	Cahill Gordon & Reindel
83	Kaye Scholer
84	Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
85	Crowell & Moring
86	Polsinelli
87	Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
88	Fish & Richardson
89	Steptoe & Johnson LLP
90	Barnes & Thornburg
91	Boies, Schiller & Flexner
92	Haynes and Boone
93	Dorsey & Whitney
94	Bracewell & Giuliani
95	Fox Rothschild
96	Blank Rome
97	Fenwick & West
98	Akerman
100	Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz