Employment Statistics

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