Employers for Classes of 2017–2019

The information in the following table represents the employers for alumni in the classes of 2019, 2018 and 2017 as reported to NALP and available on our website here. The table does not reflect employers to which graduates may have moved after these initial jobs.

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Employer
  
Class of 2017
  
Class of 2018
  
Class of 2019
  
Accounting Aid Society
0
1
1
Adobe
0
0
1
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
2
2
0
All Star Assembly
1
0
0
Allen & Overy
2
1
0
Alston & Bird
1
0
0
American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
1
0
0
American Friends Service Committee
1
0
0
Antone, Casagrande & Adwers
1
0
0
Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky
0
1
0
Arnold & Porter
1
2
4
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider
1
0
2
Baker Botts
0
1
0
Baker McKenzie
2
1
5
Barnes & Thornburg
0
1
0
Bay Area Legal Aid
0
1
0
Belkin International
1
0
0
Bodman
2
1
1
Bracewell & Giulianai LLP
0
0
1
Bronx Legal Services
1
0
1
Brooks Kushman
0
1
1
Bryan Cave
0
1
1
Butzel Long
0
0
1
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
5
1
2
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
1
1
0
California Department of Justice, Office of Attorney General
1
0
0
California Western School of Law
0
0
1
Carlson, Gaskey and Olds
1
0
0
Carpenter Lipps & Leland
1
0
0
Center for Biological Diversity
1
0
0
Chipman, Mazzucco, Land & Pennarola
0
0
1
City of Buffalo, Department of Law
1
0
0
City of Detroit
1
0
0
Clark County Public Defender Office
1
0
0
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
2
1
4
Clifford Chance
1
3
1
Clyde & Co
1
0
0
Coleman, Yovanovich & Koester
0
1
0
Colorado State Public Defender
0
1
0
Columbia University
1
0
0
Conlin, McKenney & Philbrick, P.C.
0
1
0
Connelly Law Offices
1
0
0
Contra Costa County Office of the Public Defender
0
2
0
Cooley
3
2
0
Corstone Capital
0
1
0
Covington & Burling
2
2
3
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
1
4
1
Creative Many Michigan
1
0
0
Crowell & Moring
1
0
1
Danaher
1
0
0
Davis Polk & Wardwell
8
4
3
Davis, Graham & Stubbs
1
0
0
Dawda Mann Mulcahy & Sadler
0
1
0
DC Volunteer Lawyers Project
0
1
0
Debevoise & Plimpton
3
4
3
Deborah Gordon Law
0
1
0
Dechert
2
0
2
Deloitte
0
1
0
Dentons
1
0
0
Desmarais
0
0
1
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
0
1
0
Dickenson Peatman & Fogarty
0
0
1
Dickinson Wright
5
0
1
Dinsmore & Shohl
0
1
1
Disability Rights North Carolina
0
0
1
DLA Piper
0
1
1
Dorsey & Whitney
0
0
1
Downey Brand
0
0
1
Duane Morris
0
0
1
Duggan Shadwick Doerr & Kurlbaum
1
0
0
Dykema
2
2
1
Eastman & Smith
1
0
0
Edelman, Combs, Latturner & Goodwin
0
1
0
Evershed Sutherland
0
0
1
Eviction Defense Collaborative
2
0
0
Faegre Baker Daniels
1
0
0
Fausone Bohn
0
1
0
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
1
0
0
Federal Reserve Board
0
1
1
Federal Trade Commission
0
1
0
Fenwick & West
0
1
0
Ferguson Widmayer PC
1
0
0
Fish & Richardson
1
1
0
Fisher & Phillips
0
0
1
Flood Law
0
1
0
Foley & Lardner
2
2
3
Fredrikson & Byron
2
0
2
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
0
1
1
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
0
0
2
Gammage & Burnham
1
0
0
Georgetown University
1
0
0
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
7
6
7
Gjerset & Lorenz
1
0
0
Godfrey & Kahn
1
0
0
Goldberg Kohn
0
1
0
Goodwin Procter
0
1
3
Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission
1
0
0
Greenberg Traurig
3
1
1
Greenspoon Marder
0
1
0
Grellas Shah
1
0
0
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian
1
1
0
Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman
0
0
1
Hankin, Sandman, Palladino & Weintrob
0
1
0
Harris Wiltshire & Grannis
1
1
0
Haynes and Boone
1
1
0
Hewson & Van Hellemont
0
0
1
Higgs, Fletcher & Mack
1
0
0
Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson
0
0
2
Hoberman Law Group
0
1
0
Hogan Lovells
3
5
5
Holland & Knight
0
0
2
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn
5
3
1
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
0
1
2
Hurrell Cantrall
1
0
0
Husch Blackwell
0
0
1
Ice Miller
0
1
0
Illinois Finance Authority
1
0
0
Ingham County Prosecutor's Office
0
1
0
Inner City Law Center
0
1
0
Innis Law Group
0
1
0
Irell & Manella
1
0
0
J.P. Morgan & Company, Inc.
1
0
0
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell
1
0
0
Jenner & Block
2
1
2
Jones Day
5
10
12
K&L Gates
1
1
0
Katten Muchin Roseman
1
1
0
Katten Muchin Rosenman
0
0
1
Kemp Klein
1
0
0
Kentucky Equal Justice Center
0
1
0
Kerr, Russell and Weber
0
0
2
King County Department of Public Defense
0
0
1
Kings County District Attorney's Office
3
0
0
Kirkland & Ellis
11
10
7
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
0
0
1
Kutak Rock
0
1
0
LAF
0
0
1
Lakeshore Legal Aid
1
0
0
Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
1
0
0
Latham & Watkins
11
6
6
Lee & Ko
0
1
0
Legal Aid Society of New York
1
0
0
Legal Services of Eastern Michigan
0
0
1
Legal Services of Northern California
1
0
0
Legal Services of South Central Michigan
1
0
0
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
1
0
0
Linklaters
1
1
3
Littler Mendelson
1
0
1
Livingston Adler Pulda Meiklejohn & Kelly
1
0
0
Lowenstein Sandler
1
0
1
Maricopa County Attorney's Office
0
1
0
Marion County Public Defender Agency
0
0
1
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun
0
0
1
Maryland Office of the Public Defender
0
0
1
Mayer Brown
2
2
1
McDermott Will & Emery
2
0
0
McLane Middleton
0
1
0
McLeod Alexander Powel & Apffe
1
0
0
Mecklenburg County Public Defender
0
1
0
Michael O'Beirne - Attorney at Law
1
0
0
Michigan Attorney General
0
0
1
Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
1
0
1
Mika Meyers Beckett & Jones
0
1
0
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
5
5
2
Miller Canfield
4
0
1
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
0
0
1
Mississippi Center for Justice
0
1
0
Missouri Attorney General's Office
0
0
1
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
1
0
3
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell
0
1
0
Morrison & Foerster
0
1
2
Munger, Tolles & Olson
1
0
0
Murphy Pearson Bradley & Feeney
1
0
0
National Center for Youth Law
1
1
1
National Institute for Reproductive Health
0
0
1
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
0
0
1
Navaho Nation Department of Justice
0
1
0
Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem
1
0
0
Netcapital
1
0
0
Nevada Legal Services
0
0
1
New Hampshire Public Defender
1
0
0
New Jersey Attorney General
0
0
1
New Jersey Office of the Public Defender
0
0
1
New York County Defender Services
0
1
0
New York County District Attorney
0
1
1
Nisen & Elliott
1
0
0
Nixon Peabody
0
1
0
Norton Rose Fulbright
1
1
0
O'Flaherty Law
0
1
0
Ohio Attorney General Office
0
0
1
O'Melveny & Myers
4
3
0
Orleans Public Defenders
0
1
0
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
1
1
2
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker
4
0
2
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
0
1
1
Payne & Fears
0
0
1
Perkins Coie
1
1
0
Perkins Thompson
1
0
0
Philadelphia District Attorney's Office
0
1
2
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
0
1
0
Potter, Anderson & Corroon
1
0
0
Proskauer
0
2
0
Rabbit Tractors
1
0
0
Reno & Cavanaugh
0
0
1
Richards, Layton & Finger
0
1
1
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd
1
0
0
Robins Kaplan
1
0
0
Ropes & Gray
1
4
2
Schiff Hardin
2
0
1
Schulte Roth & Zabel
4
2
3
Semanoff Ormsby Greenberg & Torchia
0
0
1
Seward & Kissel
0
1
0
Shearman & Sterling
1
3
3
Shin & Kim
1
0
0
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
0
0
1
Shutts & Bowen
1
0
0
Sidley Austin
7
1
15
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
1
1
2
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
9
7
3
Snell & Wilmer
0
0
1
Social Security Administration
0
1
0
Squire Patton Boggs
0
1
0
St. Joseph County Prosecuting Attorney
0
1
0
Stafford Rosenbaum
0
1
0
Start Small Think Big
0
1
0
Steptoe & Johnson
0
1
2
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
1
0
0
Sullivan & Cromwell
3
2
1
Swanson O'Dell, APC
0
1
0
Tehama County District Attorney's Office
0
0
1
Texas Office of the Attorney General - Consumer Protection
1
0
0
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
0
1
1
The Legal Aid Society
0
0
1
The Murray Law Group
1
0
0
The Patterson Law Firm
1
0
0
The Sutton Law Firm
0
0
1
Tonkon Torp
1
0
0
Tuolumne County District Attorney's Office
1
0
0
U.S. Army JAG
0
0
1
U.S. Department of Justice
2
0
0
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1
0
0
U.S. Navy JAG
0
0
4
University of California, Hastings College of Law
1
0
0
Urban Justice Center, Street Vendor Project
1
0
0
Varnum
0
1
0
Venable
1
2
0
Vinson & Elkins
2
0
2
Von Briesen & Ropper
0
1
0
Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease
0
1
0
Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis
0
0
1
Warner Norcross & Judd
0
1
1
Wayne County Corporation Counsel
0
1
0
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
6
4
10
Western Environmental Law Center
0
0
1
White & Case
2
5
0
Wiley Rein
0
0
1
Williams & Connolly
0
1
3
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
1
1
2
WilmerHale
1
0
0
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
2
2
2
Winston & Strawn
2
1
1
Wittels Law
0
1
0
Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP
1
0
0
Work America Capital
1
0
0
Employer
  
Class of 2017
  
Class of 2018
  
Class of 2019
  
Continuing education
3
1
0
Contract
0
2
0
Court: State Intermediate Appellate or Trial
8
14
10
Court: State Supreme
6
3
12
Court: U.S. Bankruptcy
6
1
1
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals
9
12
8
Court: U.S. District
30
25
20
Court: Other Federal
1
2
2
Court: International (European Court of Justice/International Court of Justice)
1
0
0
District attorneys/state attorneys general
6
4
7
Investment banking, finance, and other corporate
3
4
2
Legal employment (details not provided by student)
0
0
0
Management consulting
0
1
0
Other legal employment
4
8
4
Non-legal employment
3
2
1
Not looking
3
2
2
Unemployed
2
1
1
Employed, start date deferred
0
1
1
Unknown
2
0
1
Number of employed students who opted out of this list
0
0
0
Graduating class size
333
291
307