Types of Experience
- 81% worked in a summer legal job
- 9% worked in a non-legal job
- 6% worked in a permanent legal position
- 3% participated in a study abroad program
- 1% did not work
Of those students who were employed in either a legal or non-legal job, 38% were in paid positions while 62% worked in unpaid positions. This is a slight rise in unpaid positions from last year’s results.
How Students Found Employment
Networking is important in any job search and the results from this year’s summer job survey reflect that. Most respondents found their job through someone they knew or through networking. Many students also found their employment through the CSO JobNet!
Networking is important in any job search and the results from this year’s summer job survey reflect that. Most respondents found their job through someone they knew or through networking. Many students also found their employment through the CSO JobNet!
- 30% found their job through a referral from someone they knew
- 24% found their job through the CSO JobNet
- 14% found their job by networking or contacting the employer directly
- 10% found their job through an on-campus interview, job fair, or school program
- 7% returned to a previous employer
- 4% found their job through a posting on the employer’s website or an on-line job posting site
- 11% did not disclose how their job was found
- 68% remained in Massachusetts
- 27% worked out of state
- 5% worked internationally or participated in a study abroad program
While the majority of New England Law students remained in Massachusetts for their summer work, a number of students also worked in other New England states as well as in Washington, DC and New York. Students also participated in study abroad programs in Malta, Prague, London, and Galway.
Below are just a few of the law firms and organizations who hired New England Law students this summer:
ACLU of Oregon
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts
Akerman Senterfitt
Alaska Public Defender Agency
Barnstable County Probate & Family Court
Bonner Kiernan Trebach & Crociata LLP
Boston City Council
Boston Housing Authority
Cape & Islands District Atttorney's Office
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP
Friedman & Atherton LLP
Greater Boston Legal Services
International Criminal Court
Kings County District Attorney's Office
Legal Advocacy & Resource Center
Lubin & Meyer, P.C.
Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
Massachusetts Department of Revenue
Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
MBTA Legal Department
McGregor & Associates, P.C.
Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston
Middlesex County District's Attorney's Office
New Hampshire Attorney General's Office
Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP
Office of the Maine Attorney General
Office of the New York State Attorney General
Rhode Island Department of the Attorney General
Rhode Island Office of the Public Defender
Rockingham County Attorney's Office
Shelter Legal Services
Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner
State of Connecticut Judicial Branch
Suffolk County District Attorney's Office
Suffolk County Probate and Family Court
Tarlow Breed Hart & Rodgers, P.C.
The Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts
Transportation Security Administration
U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of Massachusetts
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the U.S. Trustee
U.S. Department of State, U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
U.S. Immigration Court
U.S. Attorney's Office
UTi Worldwide Inc.
Washington State Office of the Attorney General
Are you looking for a job for next summer? Make an appointment with the Career Services Office. Call 617-422-7229 to schedule a meeting today.
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