Employment by Practice Venue

Distribution by Firm Size

* Includes 8 contract associates. If these were not included, this figure would be 44.2%.

Range of Reported Salaries

The range of salaries presented below is intended simply as a guideline to the approximate salaries you might expect to receive. These figures vary from year to year based upon market conditions as well as the number of graduates reporting salary information to us, but historically the variations have been insignificant when viewed as general guidelines. This year, we received salary information from 78% of our graduates in private practice.

Law Firms	Median Starting Salary	Salary Range (25th - 75th percentile)
501 or more attorneys	$160,000	$160,000-$160,000
251-500 attorneys	$160,000	$160,000-$160,000
101-250 attorneys	$150,000	$90,000-$160,000
51-100 attorneys	$75,000	$65,000-$125,000
26-50 attorneys	$66,625	$70,000-$115,000
11-25 attorneys	$65,000	$60,000-$100,000
2-10 attorneys	$60,000	$50,000-$68,000
Corporations	$78,000	$64,000-$102,500
Government	$55,000	$50,000-$57,000
Public Interest	$50,000	$44,000-$53,000

Selected Recent Placements

Law Firms Alston & Bird LLP Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein Anderson Kill & Olick Baker & Hosteler Baker & McKenzie Baker Botts Belkin Burden Bingham McCutchen LLP Blank Rome LLP Bracewell & Giuliani Bryan Cave LLP Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Cahill Gordon & Reindel Chadbourne & Parke Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Clifford Chance US LLP Cooper & Dunham Covington & Burling Cravath Swaine & Moore Davis Polk & Wardwell Day Pitney LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Dechert Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP DLA Piper US LLP Duane Morris Epstein Becker Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Fragomen Del Rey Bernson & Loewy Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Fulbright & Jaworski LLP Garfunkel, Wild & Travis Goodwin Procter LLP Greenberg Traurig Hahn & Hessen LLP Herrick, Feinstein LLP Holland & Knight Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Jackson Lewis Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Kaye, Scholer, LLP Kelley Drye & Warren Kenyon & Kenyon King & Spalding LLP Kirkland & Ellis Kramer Levin K & L Gates LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Linklaters Martin Clearwater & Bell McDermott Will & Emery Mintz Levin Morgan & Finnegan Morgan Lewis Morrison & Foerster O'Melveny & Myers LLP Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP Paul Hastings Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Reed Smith Ropes & Gray Schulte Roth Seward & Kissel Shearman & Sterling Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Sidley Austin LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Venable Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Whatley Drake & Kallas White & Case LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Judicial Clerkships U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit U.S. District Court, Eastern District,       New York U.S. District Court, Southern District,       New York U.S. District Court, Western District,       New York U.S. District Court, New Jersey U.S. District Court, Eastern District,       Pennsylvania U.S. District Court, Central District,       California U.S. District Court, District of Columbia U.S. District Court, Southern District,       Florida U.S. District Court, Eastern District,       Michigan U.S. District Court, Massachusetts U.S. District Court, Northern District,       Texas U.S. District Court, Western District,       Texas U.S. District Court, Western District,       Louisiana U.S. District Court, Western District,       Pennsylvania U.S. District Court, Western District,       Tennessee U.S. District Court, Northern District,       Georgia U.S. District Court, South Carolina U.S. District Court, Western District,       Wisconsin U.S. District Court, Maryland U.S. Bankruptcy Court, New Jersey U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District,       New York U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District,       New York U.S. Court of Federal Claims U.S. Court of International Trade U.S. Tax Court

Corporations Bank of New York Bear Sterns Berdon LLP Bloomberg Capitol Records CB Richard Ellis Chanel Citigroup Colgate Palmolive Credit Suisse First Boston Deloitte & Touche Deutsche Bank EMI Music Publishing Ernst & Young Estee Lauder Forest Laboratories Fortress Investment Group HRH Construction ING Group JetBlue Airways Kenneth Cole Merrill Lynch Morgan Stanley MTV Networks NBC New York Stock Exchange News Corporation Pfizer Public Broadcasting Service PriceWaterhouse Smith Barney Tiffany & Co. Viacom Government Agencies Bronx County District Attorney City of San Francisco Department       of Planning Dade County State Attorney's Office Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Florida State Attorney's Office Kings County District Attorney LA County Public Defender’s Office Los Angeles Police Department Nassau County District Attorney National Labor Relations Board New Jersey Bureau of Securities New York City Administration for       Children's Services New York City Department of       Cultural Affairs New York City Department of       Design & Construction New York City Department       of Education New York City Department of       Environmental Protection New York City Department of Finance New York City Housing Authority New York City Law Department New York City Police Department New York City Transit Authority New York County District Attorney New York State Attorney General's Office New York State Banking Department New York State Finance Agency/      State of New York Mortgage Agency NGO in Hong Kong Office of Adminstrative Trials & Hearings Philadelphia District Attorney Queens County District Attorney Richmond County District Attorney Suffolk County District Attorney United States Army JAG United States Attorney's Office United States Department of Health       and Human Services United States Department of       Homeland Security United States Department of Housing       and Urban Development United States Department of       Justice United States Department of       Labor United States Environmental Protection       Agency United States Immigration Court       DOJ Honors Program United States Internal Revenue Service      – Office of the Chief Counsel United States Navy JAG United States Patent and       Trademark Office United States Securities and Exchange       Commission Westchester County District Attorney Public Interest Organizations Advocates for Children American Civil Liberties Union American Indian Law Alliance Amnesty International Asian American Legal Defense       and Education Fund (AALDEF) Bronx Defenders Center for Reproductive Rights Central American Task Force (Washington) Environmental Defense Fund Gay Men's Health Crisis Housing Conservation Coordinators International Human Rights Law Institute International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, Bangkok, Thailand Lambda Legal Defense and       Education Fund Human Rights First Legal Action Center The Legal Aid Society       Criminal Defense Division The Legal Aid Society       Juvenile Rights Division The Legal Aid Society       Prisoner's Rights Project Legal Momentum Legal Services of New York Legal Services of Northern California (Woodland) Legal Services of Seattle New York Civil Liberties Union New York Lawyers for the Public Interest New York Legal Assistance Group Office of the Appellate Defender, New York Planned Parenthood Puerto Rican Legal Defense       and Education Fund (PRLDEF) Safe Horizon, Anti-Trafficking Unit Sanctuary for Families Special Court for Sierra Leone United Nations Development Program /       United Nations Interregional Crime       and Justice Research Institute,       Maputo, Mozambique Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Volunteer Lawyers Project/Buffalo, NY