1L Summer Employment
1L Summer Employment by Type
2008

1L Summer Employment by Geography
2008
The Class of 2010 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 2010 worked after their first year of law school.
States and Countries Where the Class of 2010 Worked – Summer 2008
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Arizona California District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Illinois Indiana |
Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nevada New Jersey |
New York Ohio Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington Wisconsin |
Argentina Belgium Cambodia China Costa Rica Italy Nepal Netherlands South Korea Switzerland Tanzania |
Employment by Areas of Practice – Summer 2008
PRIVATE PRACTICE |
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| Baker McKenzie LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. | Chicago | Illinois |
| Bartoli Cain Law, PLLC | Alexandria | Virginia |
| Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Bose McKinney & Evans LLP | Indianapolis | Indiana |
| Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione | Chicago | Illinois |
| Cades Schutte | Honolulu | Hawaii |
| Carlton Fields | Tampa | Florida |
| Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Dickson Wright PLLC | Ann Arbor | Michigan |
| Estudio Beccar Varela | Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| Foley & Lardner LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Foley & Lardner LLP | Madison | Wisconsin |
| Foley & Lardner LLP | Washington | District of Columbia |
| Fredrickson Byron, P.A. | Minneapolis | Minnesota |
| Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. | Houston | Texas |
| Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. | Milwaukee | Wisconsin |
| Greenberg & Lieberman | Washington | District of Columbia |
| Grippo & Elden, LLC | Chicago | Illinois |
| Heller Ehrman LLP | Seattle | Washington |
| Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP | Kansas | Missouri |
| Jackson Walker L.L.P. | Houston | Texas |
| Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL | Cincinnati | Ohio |
| Ketches & Mallen | Boston | Massachusetts |
| Kim & Chang | Seoul | South Korea |
| King & Spalding | New York | New York |
| Kirkland & Ellis LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates & Ellis LLP | Dallas | Texas |
| Kreig Devault LLP | Indianapolis | Indiana |
| Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. | Chicago | Illinois |
| Locke Lord Bissell LLP | Houston | Texas |
| Lynch Daskal Emery | New York | New York |
| Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Mayer Brown LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| McDonnell Boehnen Hulbery & Bergoff LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Millbank,Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP | Los Angeles | California |
| Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. | Detroit | Michigan |
| Pacheco | San Jose | Costa Rica |
| Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newberry, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Patton Boggs LLP | Washington | District of Columbia |
| Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP | New York City | New York |
| Perkins Coie LLP | Seattle | Washington |
| Pircher, Nichols & Meeks | Chicago | Illinois |
| Proskauer Rose LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Schiff Hardin LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Schopf & Weiss LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Shefsky & Froelich Ltd. | Chicago | Illinois |
| Shook, Hardy and Bacon, LLP | Kansas City | Missouri |
| Sidley Austin LLP | Chicago | Illinois |
| Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | Los Angeles | California |
| Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. | Cincinnati | Ohio |
| Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C. | Chicago | Illinois |
| Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P. | Houston | Texas |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | New York | New York |
| Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | Boston | Massachusetts |
| Wyatt, Tarrant &Combs, LLP | Louisville | Kentucky |
| Yoon, Yang, Kim, Shin & Yu | Seoul | South Korea |
| Yulchon | Seoul | South Korea |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY |
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| American Dental Association, Office of General Counsel | Chicago | Illinois |
| Cadogan Management | New York | New York |
| Children's Memorial Hospital, Legal Services Department | Chicago | Illinois |
| Duchossois Industries | Elmhurst | Illinois |
| Exelon | Chicago | Illinois |
| General Dynamics | Fairfax | Virginia |
| Hyatt Corporation | Chicago | Illinois |
| Illinois Tool Works | Glenview | Illinois |
| Lehman Brothers | New York | New York |
| Morgan Stanley | San Francisco | California |
| Reyes Holdings | Chicago | Illinois |
| Siemens Building Technologies | Buffalo Grove | Illinois |
| TTX Company | Chicago | Illinois |
| United Airlines | Chicago | Illinois |
| Vesuvius | Brussels | Belgium |
| Warner Bros. | Los Angeles | California |
PUBLIC INTEREST |
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| Austin Legislation Network | Austin | Texas |
| Bluhm Legal Clinic, Center for International Human Rights | Chicago | Illinois |
| Bluhm Legal Clinic, Center for Wrongful Convictions | Chicago | Illinois |
| Bluhm Legal Clinic, Children and Family Justice Center | Chicago | Illinois |
| Bluhm Legal Clinic, Federal Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic | Chicago | Illinois |
| Bluhm Legal Clinic, Investor Protection Clinic | Chicago | Illinois |
| Bluhm Legal Clinic, Roderick MacArthur Justice Center | Chicago | Illinois |
| Bluhm Legal Clinic, Small Business Opportunity Clinic | Chicago | Illinois |
| Center for Women’s Law Studies & Legal Services | Beijing | China |
| Centro Romero (Immigrant legal services) | Chicago | Illinois |
| Complex Civil Litigation and Investor Protection Clinics | Chicago | Illinois |
| Equip for Equality | Chicago | Illinois |
| Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project | Florence | Arizona |
| Forum for Women, Law, and Development | Kathmandu | Nepal |
| International Criminal Tribunal | The Hague | Netherlands |
| International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda | Arusha | Tanzania |
| International Development Law Organization | Rome | Italy |
| Khmer Rouge Documentation Center | Phnom Penh | Cambodia |
| Legal Aid Bureau of New York - Criminal Appeals Bureau | New York | New York |
| Legal Aid Society of New York - Criminal Appeals Division | Manhattan | New York |
| Legal Assistance Foundation | Chicago | Illinois |
| Midwest Center for Justice | Evanston | Illinois |
| National Center on Full Faith and Credit | Roslyn | Virginia |
| National Coalition Against Censorship | New York | New York |
| National Juvenile Defender Center | Washington | District of Columbia |
| Public Citizen, Global Law Trade Project | Washington | District of Columbia |
| Sandra Day O'Connor Center for the Judiciary | Washington | District of Columbia |
| Santa Clara Public Defender's Office | Santa Clara | California |
| Searle Center | Chicago | Illinois |
| United Nations Assistance to Khmer Roughe Trials | Phnom Penh | Cambodia |
GOVERNMENT |
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| Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office | Chicago | Illinois |
| Illinois Attorney General (Criminal Enforcement Division) | Chicago | Illinois |
| Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation | Chicago | Illinois |
| Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office | Los Angeles | California |
| U.S. Attorney’s Office | Boston | Massachusetts |
| U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Chicago | Illinois |
| U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Chicago | Illinois |
JUDICIAL EXTERNSHIP |
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| Judge Armstrong, N.D. California | Oakland | California |
| Judge Ashman, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Bucklo, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Carter, C.D. California | Santa Ana | California |
| Judge Coar, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Magistrate Judge Cole, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Magistrate Judge Cox, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Dow, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Gettleman, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge George, D. Nevada | Las Vegas | Nevada |
| Judge Greene, D. Utah | Salt Lake City | Utah |
| Judge Kennelly, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Kinnaird, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Lefkow, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Lynn, N.D. Texas | El Paso | Texas |
| Bankruptcy Judge Massey, N.D. Georgia | Atlanta | Georgia |
| Bankruptcy Judge Mullins, N.D. Georgia | Atlanta | Georgia |
| Judge Pauley, S.D. New York | New York | New York |
| Judge Preska, S.D. NY | New York | New York |
| Judge St. Eve, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Magistrate Judge Schenkier, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Bankruptcy Judge Schmetterer, C.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Schostok, Cir. Ct. Lake County | Waukegan | Illinois |
| Judge Shadur, N.D. Illinois | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Simon, N.D. Indiana | Hammond | Indiana |
| Bankruptcy Judge Tighe, C.D. California | Woodland | California |
| Judge Tunheim, D. Minnesota | Minneapolis | Minnesota |
| U.S. Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Tennessee | Memphis | Tennessee |
| Judge Whyte, N.D. California | San Jose | California |
| Judge Williams, 7th Cir. | Chicago | Illinois |
| Judge Wu, C.D. of California | Los Angeles | California |
| Magistrate Judge Zimmerman, N.D. California | San Francisco | California |
ACADEMIC |
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| Professor Ronald Allen | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Steven Calabresi | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Anthony D'Amato | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor David Dana | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Shari Seidman Diamond | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Lee Epstein | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Clinton Francis | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Tonja Jacobi | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Frederick McChesney | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor John McGinnis | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Janice Nadler | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Kathleen Narko | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Stephen Presser | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Martin Redish | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Leonard Rubinowitz | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Helene Shapo | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Marshall Shapo | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Nicola Sharpe | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Nancy Staudt | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Kristen Stilt | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Samuel Tenenbaum | Chicago | Illinois |
| Professor Albert Yoon | Chicago | Illinois |
| Northwestern University Law Review | Chicago | Illinois |
| Princeton Legal History Professor | Princeton | New Jersey |
STUDY ABROAD |
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| Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum | Rome | Italy |
| Study abroad through Santa Clara University School of Law | Geneva | Switzerland |

