GW Law`s Center for Professional Development and Career Strategy (Career Center) is dedicated to working with our students to develop their personalized career plans. Our experienced advisors work with students to understand their individual goals, formulate an effective job search strategy, and develop the professional skills required in today`s complex legal environment. Our online resources are constantly updated to provide students with the latest career planning tools. A full calendar of events, workshops and recruitment programs is held each year to help students identify their passions and connect with employers. GW law graduates are leaders in law firms, government agencies, nonprofits, and businesses around the world. Let us help you make connections and take your first steps towards a rewarding legal career. More commonly referred to as the «Arizona Guide,» this resource is a compilation of legal internships and postgraduate opportunities in government. The resource focuses primarily on opportunities within the federal government, but some state positions are also included. This subscription-based resource requires participants to register. Includes federal, state, and local agencies, as well as military jobs (whether JAG or other uniformed positions) and jobs with tribal governments, foreign governments, or the United Nations. This category includes non-public defence or appellate defence jobs (under the public interest category), political campaign jobs (under the corporate class) or judicial clerk positions (under the court clerk category). These jobs have either a fixed duration of at least one year or no specific duration. Sometimes abbreviated to LT.
A typical long-term job involves an employer hiring the graduate without foreseeing or specifying how long the employer will employ the graduate. Includes jobs that require professional skills or training, but for which a JD is neither beneficial nor particularly appropriate, such as accountant, teacher, business manager or nurse. Jobs in government (at all levels) or public benefit organizations, such as non-profit organizations and unions. Unless otherwise stated, we only count long-term and full-time jobs. Employers can create an account in CORE to post jobs, register for events and participate in our recruitment programs. Includes legal or clerk jobs. With the exception of employees, these jobs require or require you to pass the bar and be licensed to practise law. This category draws clerks into the fight, whether or not they have passed the bar. Includes all jobs in private practice, including lawyers, trainee lawyers, paralegals or other professional or clerical personnel. Private practice includes public interest law firms, which are private, for-profit firms that differ from other private firms in that much of their practice includes clients who tend to be underrepresented or groups that advocate for the community rather than the business. categorizes salaried graduates according to classifications that reflect the type of employer that employs the graduate; The categories do not reflect the type of work the graduate has with the employer. If a school reports 45% in «law firms», it means that 45% of employed graduates work as lawyers, trainee lawyers, paralegals or administrators.
Without access to the underlying data or other signal, you can`t evaluate the jobs graduates hold at law firms. Categorizes salaried graduates based on the state where their jobs are located. The ABA only publishes the three most popular states each year, though schools often publish additional location data on their websites and in LSF reports. One signal comes from the use of the percentage of salaried graduates in the required jobs of passage to the bar. If that figure is 100%, you can interpret 45% in law firms to mean that 45% of salaried graduates work as lawyers in a law firm. Some of them could be short-term or non-partnership jobs, but you can be sure they are lawyer jobs. These jobs have a fixed duration of less than one year. Sometimes abbreviated as ST. A three-month contract lawyer is classified as short-term. Includes legal internships at the federal, state, or local level or before international or foreign courts.
The defining characteristic of a clerk is that which assists a judge in judicial decisions. Includes publicly funded jobs. Examples include organizations that provide civil services, jobs as public advocates or appellate counsel, and jobs with private non-profit organizations, religious, social, fundraising, community resources, or cause-related organizations. It also includes not-for-profit policy analysis and research organizations, as well as jobs with unions, but not with professional associations or law firms in the public interest. Categorizes employed graduates according to whether the jobs are funded by the law school or the university. Includes jobs that do not require professional skills or training and are not considered part of a career path. Includes jobs funded directly or indirectly by higher education or university. These jobs are at least 35 hours per week. Sometimes abbreviated as FT. Categorizes salaried graduates according to the type of jobs held, relative to career path, as opposed to the type of employer. Includes jobs as paralegals, law school admissions officers and a variety of other jobs such as consultants, bank auditors and contract administrators.
A graduate falls into this category if the employer was looking for someone with a JD (and perhaps even needed a JD) or for whom the JD offered a demonstrable benefit in obtaining or performing the work, but the job itself does not require a lock-in, an active attorney`s license, or involves the practice of law. Includes for-profit organizations that do not fall into the category of law firms and certain not-for-profit organizations, such as political campaigns. This category is broad and includes most employers that are not law firms, schools or government organizations. The category includes everything from short-order chefs to in-house lawyers, with document review jobs and local U-Haul management in between. Examines all graduates by type of employer (e.g., law firm) and ranks graduates according to the type of employment they hold for that employer (e.g., paralegal), resulting in data on the number of paralegals or partners employed in a law firm. Note: Some jobs that are otherwise considered school-funded jobs are not included in this overview. These jobs pay at least $40,000 and the employer (school) and the graduate intend for the graduate to be there for at least a year instead of expecting the graduate to move on as soon as possible. The Career Centre uses CORE to manage recruitment programs, events and job postings. More than 13,000 positions were advertised for GW Law students and alumni in CORE last year alone.
Create a «search alert» to receive email notifications when new job openings match your preferences. A position is funded by the law school or university if the law school or university to which it belongs pays the graduate`s salary, directly or indirectly and for any amount.