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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 2012-17

Among the 2017 Am Law 100, members of the classes of 2012-17 have practiced in at least 94 of the 100 firms, ranked by gross revenue.

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