Employment Statistics
Northeastern University School of Law graduates use the skills, self-awareness, professional confidence and contacts they have gained in their co-op and classroom experiences to work in every practice setting, in virtually all areas of the law, and in locations as close to home as Boston and as far away as China and Bolivia.
The employment statistics for the classes of 2025, 2024 and 2023 reflect employment status nine months after graduation and include full-time, part-time, short and long-term, legal and non-legal positions.
Class of 2025 Major Areas of Legal Practice
Law Firms: 49%
Public Interest: 28%
Judicial: 9%
Government: 7%
Business or Industry: 6%
Education: 1%
Clerkships and Fellowships Obtained by Recent Graduates
Recent graduates have secured a variety of highly prestigious post-graduate clerkships, fellowships and associate positions with global law firms. Here are some of the positions and honors secured by recent graduates:
Fellowships
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice: Chicago National Asian Pacific
- Bart Gordon Fellowship – Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation
- Boren Fellowships - funded by the National Security Education Program
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Equal Justice Works Fellowship - Greater Boston Legal Services
- Equal Justice Works Felloswship– Campaign Legal Center
- Equal Justice Works Fellowship - Medical-Legal Partnership
- Equal Justice Works Fellowship - Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
- Equal Justice Works Fellowship - Legal Counsel for Health Justice in Chicago
- Fulbright US Student Grant — International Children’s Rights at Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship -
Georgetown Law Center O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Washington, DC - Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy
- Immigrant Justice Corps – UnLocal
- Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship - Safe Passage Project, New York
- Impact Litigation Fellowship – Social Justice Legal Foundation
- Justice Catalyst - Sur Legal Collaborative
- Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Honors Fellowship Program
- National Association of College and University Attorneys
- National Education Association
- National Labor Relations Board – Honors Program
- Parmet Fellowship/Health Law Advocates, Boston
- Peggy Browning Fellowship - Segal Roitman, Boston
- Peggy Browning Fellowship Peggy Browning Fellowship - Migrant Justice, Burlington, Vermont
- Peggy Browning Fellowship - Justice at Work in Boston.
- Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellowship – Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
- Rappaport Fellowship - Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities
- Rappaport Fellowship - Legal Office of Governor Maura Healey ’98
- Rappaport Fellowship - Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
- SEIU
- Skadden Fellowship - The EdLaw Project
- Skadden Fellowship – ACLU of Missouri
- Skadden Fellowship — Tennessee Justice Center
- Skadden Fellowship — Greater Boston Legal Services
Skadden Fellowship — Justice at Work - US Department of Housing and Urban Development Legal Honors Program
- US Department of Justice Honors Program
Clerkships
- Alaska Appeals Court
- Connecticut Supreme Court
- DC Appeals Court
- Family Court, Bergen County Justice Center, New Jersey
- Hawaii Supreme Court
- Maine Supreme Court
- Massachusetts Appeals Court
- Massachusetts Land Court
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- New Hampshire Superior Court
- New Jersey Superior Court
- New York Supreme Court
- Rhode Island Supreme Court
- Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Court
- Second Judicial District Court, Family Division, Washoe County
- State of New York Supreme Court
- Superior Court of New Jersey
- Superior Court of the Virgin Islands
- Superior Court of Guam
- US Bankruptcy Court
- US District Court for the District of Arizona
- US District Court for the District of Connecticut
- US District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- US District Court for the District of New Hampshire
- US District Court for the District of Utah
- US District Court for the District of Western Texas
- US District Court for the District of Wyoming
- US Virgin Islands Superior Court
- Vermont Superior Cour
Firms
- DLA Piper
- Foley Hoag
- Goodwin Procter
- Goulston & Storrs
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Mayer Brown
- Mintz
- Nixon Peabody
- Ropes & Gray
- Saul Ewing
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Sullivan & Worcester
- Vladeck, Raskin & Clark