Types of Employment
The majority of students who responded worked in a legal job.
- 85% worked in a summer or permanent legal job
- 6% worked in a non-legal summer or permanent job
- 4% participated in a study abroad program
- 5% did not work
How Students Found Employment
It is important to remember to use a variety of methods when searching for employment. While many respondents found their summer employment through a job posting on the CSO's JobNet many others found their job through someone they knew, a networking connection, or by contacting the employer directly.
- 27% found their job through a referral from someone they knew
- 27% found employment by responding to a job posted on the CSO JobNet on Symplicity
- 12% found their job through networking or contacting the employer directly
- 18% found employment through a law school program (such as a clinic or the Honors Judicial Internship Program), an outside organization, or other means not specified
- 6% returned to or continued with a pre-law school employer
- 6 % found their job through an on-campus interview or job fair
- 4% responded to a job posting on a commercial job website
- 75% remained in Massachusetts
- 20% worked out of state
- 5% worked internationally or participated in a study abroad program
Below are just a few of the law firms and organizations who hired New England Law Students this summer:
Greater Boston Legal Services
Law Offices of Mary Wynne Gianturco, LLC
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Department of Public
Safety
New Hampshire Public Defender
The Boston Public Health Commission
U.S. Attorney's Office
Sheff Law Offices (Boston, MA)
Tarlow Breed Hart & Rodgers, P.C.
Volunteer Lawyers Project
Federal District Court of Massachusetts
United States District Court - District of Massachusetts
Rhode Island Office of the Public Defender
Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Office of
Administrative Law Judges
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Civil Service Commission
MA Attorney General's Office
City of Boston Law Department
Law Office of John M. Iacoi & Associates
Suffolk County District Attorney's Office
Ablitt Law Offices, PC
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Probate & Family
Court
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1
Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee, LLP
Commonwealth of Massachusetts-Office of Attorney General
Massachusetts Department of Revenue
Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
Boston Municipal Court Department
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
City of Boston, Office of Labor Relations
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Rosencranz & Associates
Massachusetts Superior Court
Community Legal Services And Counseling Center
Milligan Coughlin LLC
Supreme Judicial Court
Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP
Sweeney Merrigan Law
United States Attorney’s Office for the District of
Massachusetts
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Middlesex District Attorney's Office
Gordon E. Meyer & Associates, P.C.
Bain & Company, Inc.
David Marshall Datz, P.C.
Kenneth Levine & Associates
Neighborhood Legal Services
Essex County District Attorney's Office
Massachusetts Land Court
The Law Office of Peter A. Moustakis, LLC
Where did you work last summer? If you have not already completed your 2013 Summer Employment Survey, log on to Symplicity to tell us about your experience!
Looking for a job for next summer? The Career Services Office is here to help you. Call 617-422-7229 to schedule an appointment today.
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