1L & 2L Employment Outcomes

The below data reflects the employment sectors our students worked in during their 1L and 2L summers. The data is broken out by JD year and employment type.

1L Summer Employment Outcomes

JD 2024 JD 2023 JD 2022 JD 2021 JD 2020
Law Firms 29% 21% 25% 24% 26%
Judicial Externships 4% 5% 4% 6% 10%
Public Interest 26% 36% 30% 23% 20%
Government 37% 35% 28% 41% 37%
Business 2% 3% 8% 6% 6%
 Academia 2% 1% 5% 1% 2%

Class of 2024 Geographic breakdown

Number of Jobs
SF & Other Bay Area 61
LA & Other Southern CA 18
Other West
(AZ, NM, UT,CO, WY, ID, AK, HI, NV, WA, OR, MT)
10
NY & Other Northeast
(ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI)
36
DC & Other Mid-Atlantic
(NJ, DE, PA, MD, VA)
38
Chicago & Other Midwest
(OH, IN, IL, MO, KS, NE, IA, ND, SD, MI, MN, WI)
7
Southeast
(WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, TN, KY, AR, AL, MS, LA, TX, OK, PR)
13
International 5

Law Firm Size Breakdown

Number of Jobs
501+ 38
251-500 5
101-250 0
51-100 5
26-50 3
1-25 4

 

2L Summer Employment Outcomes

JD 2023 JD 2022 JD 2021 JD 2020 JD 2019
Law Firms 76% 74% 76% 80% 73%
Public Interest 12% 14% 14% 14% 11%
Government 8% 8% 8% 4% 8%
Business 1% 3% 2% 2% 5%
 Academia 3% 1% 0.5% 0.5% 1%
 Judicial Externships 0% 0% 0% 0% 1%

Class of 2023 Geographic breakdown

Number of Jobs
SF & Other Bay Area 82
LA & Other Southern CA 25
Other West
(AZ, NM, UT,CO, WY, ID, AK, HI, NV, WA, OR, MT)
5
NY & Other Northeast
(ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI)
42
DC & Other Mid-Atlantic
(NJ, DE, PA, MD, VA)
40
Chicago & Other Midwest
(OH, IN, IL, MO, KS, NE, IA, ND, SD, MI, MN, WI)
4
Southeast
(WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, TN, KY, AR, AL, MS, LA, TX, OK, PR)
10
International 1

Law Firm Size Breakdown

Number of Jobs
501+ 126
251-500 9
101-250 9
51-100 3
26-50 9
1-25 4