2011 Summer Employment Survey Results

This year 211 New England Law students completed our 2011 Summer Employment survey giving us valuable information about where students worked and how they found their employment.  58% of the respondents were from the class of 2013 and 42% of the respondents were from the class of 2012.

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!

•  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

Where Students Worked 

•  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.