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 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 reflect employment status nine months after graduation and include full-time, part-time, short and long-term, legal and non-legal positions.

Class of 2024 Major Areas of Legal Practice*

Law Firms: 52%
Public Interest: 26%
Business or Industry: 5%
Government: 8.5%
Judicial: 6.5%
Education: 2%

*Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up to 100%.

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 American Bar Association Law Foundation Community Law Fellowship
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
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
O’Connell Fellowship
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 - City of Boston Law Department
Rappaport Fellowship - Office of State Senator Joan Lovely
Rappaport Fellowship - Office of State Representative Natalie Higgins ’14
SEIU
Skadden Fellowship - The EdLaw Project
Skadden Fellowship – ACLU of Missouri
US Department of Housing and Urban Development Legal Honors Program
US Department of Justice Honors Program

Clerkships

Alaska Appeals Court
Family Court, Bergen County Justice Center, New Jersey
Maine Supreme Court
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Washington DC 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 Supreme Court
Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Court
Second Judicial District Court, Family Division, Washoe County
State of New York Supreme Court
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 New Hampshire
US District Court for the District of Utah
US District Court for the District of Western Texas
Vermont Superior Court
Circuit Court for Frederick County, Maryland

Firms

Foley Hoag
Goodwin Procter
Ropes & Gray
Kirkland & Ellis
Saul Ewing
Goulston & Storrs
Sullivan & Worcester
Nixon Peabody