1L Summer Employment

1L Summer Employment by Type
2006

First Year student employment by type

1L Summer Employment by Geography
2006

1Ls employment by geography

The Class of 2008 worked in a wide range of legal positions in cities across the United States and the globe. Students were primarily employed in the law firms and in the public sector, with employers spanning the range from some of largest law firms in the world to small, local public interest organizations to state and federal government agencies. Students also found opportunities with numerous multi-national corporations and state and federal judges at the trial and appellate levels.

Below is a representative list of where the Class of 2008 worked after their first year of law school.

States and Countries Where the Class of 2008 Worked – Summer 2006

Alaska

Arizona

California

Colorado

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kentucky

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Montana

New York

Ohio

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

International

Cambodia

Ghana

Guatemala

India

South Africa

Switzerland

Tanzania

Employment by Areas of Practice – Summer 2006

PRIVATE PRACTICE
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld	Austin	Texas
Armstrong Teasdale	St. Louis	Missouri
Arquilla & Fink	Chicago	Illinois
Baker & McKenzie	Chicago	Illinois
Baker Botts	Houston	Texas
Banner & Witcoff	Chicago	Illinois
Bell Boyd & Lloyd	Chicago	Illinois
Berkowitz & Associates	Chicago	Illinois
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin	Kansas City	Missouri
Bose McKinney & Evans	Indianapolis	Indiana
Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd	Chicago	Illinois
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft	New York	New York
Cardinal Law Group	Evanston	Illinois
Clifford Law Offices	Chicago	Illinois
Cooley Godward	Palo Alto	California
DiGenova & Toensing	Washington	District of Columbia
DLA Piper	Chicago	Illinois
Dorsey & Whitney	Minneapolis	Minnesota
Fitch, Even, Tabin and Flannery	Chicago	Illinois
Foley & Lardner	Chicago	Illinois
Foley & Lardner	Washington	District of Columbia
Foley & Lardner	Milwaukee ,	Wisconsin
Fulbright & Jaworski	Houston	Texas
Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn	Chicago	Illinois
Godfrey & Kahn	Milwaukee	Wisconsin
Greenberg Traurig	Scottsdale	Arizona
Greenberg Traurig	Chicago	Illinois
Kenneth Moll & Associates	Chicago	Illinois
Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton PLC	Birmingham	Michigan
LaFollette Godfrey & Kahn	Madison	Wisconsin
Leff, Cohen & Winkler	Chicago	Illinois
Lord, Bissell & Brook	Chicago	Illinois
Lovells	Chicago	Illinois
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw	Chicago	Illinois
McAndrews, Held & Malloy	Chicago	Illinois
McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert & Berghoff	Chicago	Illinois
Nyemaster Goode Hansell West & O'Brien, PC	Des Moines	Iowa
Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker	Anchorage	Arkansas
Pavalon, Gifford & Laatsch	Chicago	Illinois
Peck, Bloom, Austriaco & Mitchell	Chicago	Illinois
Perkins Coie	Chicago	Illinois
Perkins Coie	Seattle	Washington
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman	Houston	Texas
Pircher Nichols & Meeks	Chicago	Illinois
Reed Smith	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
Sachnoff and Weaver	Chicago	Illinois
Schiff Hardin	Chicago	Illinois
Shubin & Bass, P.A.	Miami	Florida
Sidley Austin	Chicago	Illinois
Stein-Bogot Ltd.	Chicago	Illinois
Stoll Keenon Ogden	Lexington	Kentucky
Sullivan & Cromwell	Los Angeles	California
Vinson & Elkins	Washington	District of Columbia
Vinson & Elkins	Dallas	Texas
Weinberg and Jacobs	Rockville	Maryland
Winston & Strawn	Chicago	Illinois
Workman Nydegger	Salt Lake City	Utah
Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, P.A.	Greenville	South Carolina

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Abbott Laboratories	Abbott Park	Illinois
Boeing, Corporate Law Department	Chicago	Illinois
BP America Inc.	Warrenville	Illinois
CareerBuilder	Chicago	Illinois
Electric Power Research Institute	Palo Alto	California
Merrill Lynch	New York	New York
Mountaineer Capital	Charleston	West Virginia
New England Patriots	Foxboro	Massachusetts
Nicor, Inc. Legal Department	Naperville	Illinois
Orbitz.com	Chicago	Illinois
PepsiAmericas	Schaumburg	Illinois
QUALCOMM, Inc., Corporate Legal Department	San Diego	California
Tata Consultancy Services	Mumbai	India
Tribune Co.	Chicago	Illinois

PUBLIC INTEREST
ACLU of Georgia	Atlanta	Georgia
Advancement Project	Washington	District of Columbia
Advocates for Children	New York	New York
Bay Area Legal Aid	San Mateo	California
Bluhm Legal Clinic, Center for International Human Rights	Chicago	Illinois
Bluhm Legal Clinic, Center on Wrongful Convictions	Chicago	Illinois
Bluhm Legal Clinic, Children and Family Justice Center	Chicago	Illinois
Bluhm Legal Clinic, Small Business Opportunity Center	Chicago	Illinois
Cabrini Green Legal Aid	Chicago	Illinois
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless	Chicago	Illinois
Citizen Advocacy Center	Elmhurst	Illinois
Council on American-Islamic Relations	Chicago	Illinois
Defender Association of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Documentation Center of Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Cambodia
Environmental Law and Policy Center	Chicago	Illinois
Geneva for Human Rights	Geneva	Switzerland
Georgia Justice Project	Atlanta	Georgia
Greater Boston Legal Services	Boston	Massachusetts
Human Rights Clinic	Chicago	Illinois
Institute for Trafficked, Exploited, and Missing Persons	Antigua	Guatemala
International Human Rights Clinic	Chicago	Illinois
Lawyer's Committee for Better Housing	Chicago	Illinois
Legal Aid Society of Columbus	Columbus	Ohio
Legal Aid Society of San Diego	San Diego	California
Legal Aid Society of Hempstead , NY	Hempstead	New York
Legal and Human Rights Centre	Dar Es Salaam	Tanzania
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago	Chicago	Illinois
Montana Justice Project	Missoula	Montana
New York Civil Liberties Union	New York	New York
Office of the Appellate Defender	New York	New York
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law	Chicago	Illinois
The Ark Foundation	Achimota-Accra	Ghana

GOVERNMENT
California Attorney General	Los Angeles	California
City of Chicago , Department of Law	Chicago	Illinois
Colorado Attorney General	Denver	Colorado
Connecticut Office of the Public Defender	New London	Connecticut
Cook County Public Defender	Chicago	Illinois
Cook County State 's Attorney's Office	Chicago	Illinois
Department of Defense	Arlington	Virginia
Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel	Washington	District of Columbia
Department of Justice, Antitrust, National Criminal Enforcement	Washington	District of Columbia
Department of Justice, Disability Rights	Washington	District of Columbia
District Court, 9th Circuit ( Oakland ), Pro Se Department	Oakland	California
DuPage County State 's Attorney's Office	Wheaton	Illinois
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Chicago District Office	Chicago	Illinois
Federal Defender Program	Chicago	Illinois
Federal Reserve Bank of New York	New York	New York
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection	Washington	District of Columbia
Federal Trade Commission, Midwest Branch	Chicago	Illinois
Hamilton County Public Defender	Cincinnati	Ohio
Illinois Attorney General's Office	Chicago	Illinois
Illinois Attorney General's Office, Consumer Fraud Division	Springfield	Illinois
Internal Revenue Service, Chief Counsel	Chicago	Illinois
San Francisco Public Defender	San Francisco	California
Santa Clara District Attorney's Office	San Jose	California
U.S. Attorney's Office - District of Massachusetts	Boston	Massachusetts
U.S. Attorney's Office - Southern District of Florida	Miami	Florida
U.S. Attorney's Office - Washington , D.C.	Washington	District of Columbia
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of General Counsel	Chicago	Illinois
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division	Washington	District of Columbia
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Regional Counsel	Chicago	Illinois
United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois

JUDICIAL EXTERNSHIP
Bankruptcy Judge Bruce W. Black, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Bankruptcy Judge Susan P. Sonderby, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Chief Justice Mary J. Mullarkey, Colorado Supreme Court	Denver	Colorado
Judge Denny Chin, Southern District of New York	New York	New York
Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Circuit Court of Cook County , Municipal Division	Chicago	Illinois
Judge James Ware, Northern District of California	San Jose	California
Judge Jeffrey Sutton, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals	Columbus	Ohio
Judge John B. Grogan, State of Illinois , Circuit Court of Cook County	Chicago	Illinois
Judge John L. Coffey, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Judge Frank Y. Jackson, North District Los Angeles Superior Court	Lancaster	California
Judge Kenneth M. Karas, Southern District of New York	New York	New York
Judge Marjorie C. Laws, Circuit Court of Cook County	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Mark Filip, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Marvin E. Aspen, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Michael W. McConnell, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals	Salt Lake City	Utah
Judge Patti B. Saris, United States District Court, District of Massachusetts	Boston	Massachusetts
Judge Phillip S. Figa, District of Colorado	Denver	Colorado
Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Richard D. Cudahy, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Robert Gettleman, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Ronald A. Guzman, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Ruben Castillo, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Virginia M. Kendall, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Magistrate Judge Geraldine Soat Brown, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Magistrate Judge Sidney Schenkier, Northern District of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois

ACADEMIC
Centre for SocioLegal Research	Rondebosch	South Africa
Directed Reading Project	Chicago	Illinois
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University School of Law	Chicago	Illinois
Northwestern University Law Review	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Adrienne Giorgolo	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Alexia Brunet	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Anthony D'Amato	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Claire Priest	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Clint Francis	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Cynthia Bowman	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Elizabeth Inglehart	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Emerson Tiller	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Fred McChesney	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Helene Shapo	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Kimberly Yuracko	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Lee Epstein	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Leonard Rubinowitz	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Martin Redish	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Matthew Sag	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Robert Bennett	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Robert Sitkoff	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Ronald Allen	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Shari Seidman Diamond	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Sheila Maloney	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Stephen B. Presser	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Susan Provenzano	Chicago	Illinois

STUDY ABROAD
Queen Mary College , University of London	London	United Kingdom

OTHER
Northwestern Law/ Orientation Coordinator	Chicago	Illinois
Northwestern University Technology Transfer Office	Evanston	Illinois
Sherrod Brown for U.S. Senate	Amherst	Ohio