1L Summer Employment

1L Summer Employment by Type 2010

1L Summer Employment by Geography 2010

The Class of 2012 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 2012 worked after their first year of law school.

States and Countries Where the Class of 2012 Worked - Summer 2010

U.S.			International
Arizona California Colorado District of Columbia Florida Illinois Indiana Louisiana	Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New York Ohio Oregon	Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington Wisconsin	Argentina Brazil China Costa Rica Germany Hong Kong India Israel Japan Korea Laos Puerto Rico

Employment by Areas of Practice – Summer 2008

Private Practice
Abrams Garfinkle Margolis & Bergen	Los Angeles	California
Arqis Rechstanwalte	Munich	Germany
Arqis Rechstanwalte	Tokyo	Japan
Baker Botts L.L.P.	Dallas	Texas
Chapman & Cutler  LLP	Chicago	Illinois
Dave & Girish & Co.	Mumbai	India
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP	Seattle	Washington
Dorsey & Whitney LLP	Minneapolis	Minnesota
Estudio Beccar Varela	Buenos Aires	Argentina
Fish & Richardson P.C.	Boston	Massachusetts
Fleming & Umland	Peoria	Illinois
Foley & Lardner LLP	Madison	Wisconsin
Frost Brown Todd LLC	Cincinnati	Ohio
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.	Dallas	Texas
Grippo & Elden, LLC	Chicago	Illinois
Heskia Hacmun	Tel Aviv	Israel
Howard & Howard	Royal Oak	Michigan
JS Barney	Chicago	Illinois
Jun He Law Offices	Shanghai	China
KamberEdelson, LLC	Chicago	Illinois
Keller Rohrback  L.L.P.	Seattle	Washington
Kim & Chang	Seoul	South Korea
Levin Riback Law Group	Chicago	Illinois
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP	Chicago	Illinois
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbery & Bergoff  LLP	Chicago	Illinois
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCLoy LLP	New York	New York
Miller Shakman & Beem LLP	Chicago	Illinois
Pacheco Odio & Alfaro	Costa Rica	Puerto Rico
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP	Hong Kong	China
Perkins Coie Brown & Bain P.A.	Phoenix	Arizona
Perkins Coie LLP	Madison	Wisconsin
Proskauer Rose LLP	Chicago	Illinois
Sidley Austin LLP	Chicago	Illinois
Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP	Chicago	Illinois
Trokie Landau LLP	White Plains	New York
Vedder Price, P.C.	Chicago	Illinois
Yoon, Yang, Kim, Shin & Yu, Ltd.	Seoul	South Korea

Business
Abbott Laboratories	Waugekan	Illinois
Aon Consulting	Chicago	Illinois
Children's Memorial Hospital, Legal Services Department	Chicago	Illinois
Exelon	Chicago	Illinois
FXCM (Currency Trading) Legal Dept.	New York	New York
General Dynamics	Falls Church	Virginia
Hyatt Hotels Corporation	Chicago	Illinois
Kaplan Higher Education	Chicago	Illinois
Mead Johnson Nutritionals	Glenview	Illinois
Microsoft	Redmond	Washington
Qualcomm	San Diego	California
Reyes Holdings	Chicago	Illinois
The Shilla (owned by Samsung)	Seoul	South Korea
Siemens Building Technologies	Buffalo Grove	Illinois
United Airlines	Chicago	Illinois
Walt Disney Corporation	Los Angeles	California

Government
Chicago Park District	Chicago	Illinois
City of Chicago Law Department	Chicago	Illinois
Cook County Public Defender	Chicago	Illinois
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, Felony Trial Division	Chicago	Illinois
Federal Trade Commission	Chicago	Illinois
New York City Division of Human Rights	New York	New York
New York City Council’s Office of Government Affairs	New York	New York
San Diego Public Defender	San Diego	California
U.S. Attorney’s Office, N.D. New York	Syracuse	New York
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission	New York	New York
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Civil Rights Division	Chicago	Illinois
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	Chicago	Illinois
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division	Washington	District of Columbia
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement	Chicago	Illinois
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission	New York	New York
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission	Washington	District of Columbia

Judicial Externship
Cook County Domestic Relations Court	Chicago	Illinois
Chief Justice Abrahamson, Wisconsin Supreme Court	Madison	Wisconsin
Judge Baer, S.D. New York	New York	New York
Magistrate Judge Baker, M.D. Florida	Orlando	Florida
Judge Berrigan, E.D. Louisiana	New Orleans	Louisiana
Judge Boyle, E.D. New York	Central Islip	New York
Judge Boyle, N.D. Texas	Dallas	Texas
Judge Castillo, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Cleland, E.D. Michigan	Detroit	Michigan
Magistrate Judge Cole, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Connelly, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Cudahy (7th Cir. Court of Appeals)	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Dow, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Glenn, S.D. New York	New York	New York
Bankruptcy Judge Goldgar, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Huvelle, District of D.C.	Washington	District of Columbia
Magistrate Judge Jelderks, District of Oregon	Portland	Oregon
Judge Jenkins, District of Utah	Salt Lake City	Utah
Bankruptcy Judge Jury, C.D. California	Riverside	California
Judge Kendall, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Kennelly, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Kern, Massachusetts State Court	Lawrence	Massachusetts
Judge Kimball, District of Utah	Salt Lake City	Utah
Judge Kocoras, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Kovachevich, M.D. Florida	Tampa	Florida
Bankruptcy Judge Kwan, C.D. California	Santa Ana	California
Judge Leinenweber, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Lefkow, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Pechman, W.D. Washington	Seattle	Washington
Judge Polster, N.D. Ohio	Cleveland	Ohio
Judge Preston, Circuit Court of Cook County	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Pro, District of Nevada	Las Vegas	Nevada
Chief Judge Randa, E.D. Wisconsin	Milwaukee	Wisconsin
Judge Rice, Colorado Supreme Court	Denver	Colorado
Magistrate Judge Rodovich, N.D. Indiana	Hammond	Indiana
Judge St. Eve, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Magistrate Judge Schenkier, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Magistrate Judge Schwartz, District of New Jersey	Newark	New Jersey
Judge Shadur, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Shaffer, King County Superior Court	Seattle	Washington
Judge Simon, N.D. Indiana	Hammond	Indiana
Bankruptcy Judge Sonderby, N.D. Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
Judge Surrick, E.D. Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
Judge Tunheim, District of Minnesota	St. Paul	Minnesota
Judge Vitaliano, E.D. New York	Brooklyn	New York
Judge Wu, C.D. of California	Los Angeles	California

Academic Research
Journal of Law & Social Policy	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Ronald Allen	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Kenworthey Bilz	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Robert Bennett	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Thomas Brennan	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Steven Calabresi	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Shari Seidman Diamond	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Lee Epstein	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Tonja Jacobi	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Stephen Presser	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Martin Redish	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Dorothy Roberts	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Leonard Rubinowitz	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Sarah Schrup	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Nancy Staudt	Chicago	Illinois
Professor Kristen Stilt	Chicago	Illinois

Non-Profit/Legal Services
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, Complex Civil Litigation
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 Youth Justice	Washington	District of Columbia
Chicago 2016	Chicago	Illinois
Chicago Legal Aid Bureau	Chicago	Illinois
Children’s Rights	New York	New York
Citizen Works	Chicago	Illinois
Cook County Office of the Public Guardian	Chicago	Illinois
Coordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services (CARPLS)	Chicago	Illinois
Criminal Defense and Appeals Clinic	Chicago	Illinois
DePaul Center for Justice in Capital Cases	Chicago	Illinois
Documentation Center of Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Cambodia
Equip for Equality	Chicago	Illinois
Federal Public Defender Program	Chicago	Illinois
Humane Society of the United States	Chicago	Illinois
Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing	Chicago	Illinois
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law	Washington	District of Columbia
Legal Aid Society	Clarksville	Tennessee
Legal Assistance Foundation	Chicago	Illinois
Life Span	Chicago	Illinois
Midwest Center for Justice	Evanston	Illinois
Neighborhood Legal Services for L.A. County	Los Angeles	California
New York Legal Aid Society	Brooklyn	New York
Oakland Unified School District	Oakland	California
Sandra Day O’Connor Center on the Judiciary	Washington	District of Columbia
Searle Center for Law & Economics	Chicago	Illinois
Stanford Center for Internet & Society	Palo Alto	California
South Florida Immigrant Justice	Miami	Florida