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 2020, 2019 and 2018 and reflect employment status nine months after graduation and include full-time, part-time, short and long-term, legal and non-legal positions.
Class of 2020 Major Areas of Legal Practice*
Law Firms: 40.4%
Public Interest: 28.1%
Judicial: 12.3%
Business and Industry: 11.1%
Government: 8.2%
*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 Fellowship – Health Law Advocates
- Equal Justice Works Fellowship - Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts
- Georgetown Law Center, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
- Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy
- Immigrant Justice Corps - UnLocal
- Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship - Innovation Law Lab
- Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship - Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
- Justice Catalyst - NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Honors Fellowship Program
- 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 - Legal Aid Justice Center
- Skadden Fellowship - Maine Equal Justice Works
- Skadden Fellowship - Citizens for Juvenile Justice
- Skadden Fellowship – Legal Aid Justice Center
- Skadden Fellowship – Pine Street Legal
- US Department of Housing and Urban Development Legal Honors Program
- US Department of Justice Honors Program
- Wendy Parmet Fellowship – Health Law Advocates
Clerkships
- Alaska Appeals Court
- Maine Supreme Court
- Massachusetts Appeals 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
- Superior Court of the Virgin Islands
- Superior Court of Guam
- US Bankruptcy Court
- 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
- Vermont Superior Court
Firms
- Foley Hoag
- Goodwin Procter
- Ropes & Gray
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Saul Ewing
- Goulston & Storrs
- Sullivan & Worcester
- Nixon Peabody