CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Our graduates have an outstanding record of success in the national market. From the moment you enter the School of Law, we will take positive steps towards securing a rewarding legal career. Our Career Development Office (CDO) staff will be by your side for the entire journey. All of our career advisors have J.D. degrees and substantial practice experience. Our approach allowed the Class of 2021 to post the top placement rate among all law schools for high value legal jobs.* The Class of 2022 followed with another top five posting in JD Required employment.

The CDO provides individualized advising and coaching to every student to ensure each student has their own specific strategy. We also provide an extensive array of professional development programs, including our 1L Training Program concurrent with our newly developed Lawyering class. These interactive programs begins during incoming student orientation and helps students develop professional skills and habits students will use and advising programs with practicing attorneys on how to pursue to take advantage of the wide range of employment opportunities available to our students and graduates. Other programs for first year students include: a mock interview program, seminars taught by experts on job search skills like networking, and practicing attorneys providing advice on how to pursue many different practice specialties and employment settings. We implement a proactive national employer outreach effort designed to bring private and public employers to campus and post jobs to our job board.

*Full-time, long-term positions requiring bar passage or where a J.D. is an advantage.

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96.8% WERE EMPLOYED IN FULL-TIME, LONG TERM JOBS that require bar admission or are J.D. advantage jobs within 10 months of graduation

63.1% Private Practice

15% Judicial Clerkships

3.2% Business/ Industry

98.85% ULTIMATE BAR PASSAGE RATE for graduates who took the bar within 2 years of graduation

Graduates obtained work in 19 U.S. JURISDICTIONS & CHINA

4.3% Public Interest

11.8% Government

2.6% Education