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Graduate Placement Statistics

Graduate Placement Stats

Class of 2008

Response Rate
215 graduates had known employment status out of 216 total graduates, a 99.54% response rate.

Employment Rate
98.2% (Percentage includes employed graduates, graduates enrolled in a full-time degree program and one-fourth of the unknown graduates, but excludes those individuals who are not seeking jobs.)

Location of Employment
Based upon graduates' responses, the Class of 2008 is employed throughout the state of Ohio, in 21 other states, the District of Columbia, and two foreign countries. A geographical breakdown for the Class of 2008 appears as follows:

State No. State No. State No.
California 6 Michigan 2 Tennessee 1
Colorado 1 Minnesota 1 Texas 4
Florida 2 New Jersey 2 Virginia 5
Illinois 9 New Mexico 2 Washington, D.C. 13
Indiana 2 New York 8 Washington 2
Kentucky 1 North Carolina 2 West Virginia 1
Maine 1 Ohio 127 Wisconsin 2
Massachusetts 1 Pennsylvania 4 South Korea 1
        Canada 1

Overall Salary Information
(Average salary: $84,304 based on 71.7% individuals reporting)

Employment Type No. Average Salary
Private Practice (Overall) 108 $104,245
Solo 4 N/A
2-10 Attorneys 21 $49,250
11-25 Attorneys 9 $75,444
26-50 Attorneys 6 $96,600
51-100 Attorneys 4 $83,250
101-250 Attorneys 16 $103,630
251-500 Attorneys 16 $126,875
501+ Attorneys 21 $142,619
Government (Overall) 35 $45,568
Judicial Clerkship (Overall) 12 $50,668
Business or Industry (Overall) 28 $71,354
Public Interest 6 $39,375
Average Starting Salary $84,304

Types of Employment
(This does not include 11 graduates who are either enrolled in school full-time, unemployed and not seeking employment, or unemployed and seeking employment.)

Employment No. % of Graduates
Private Law Practice 108 53.7%
Local Government 12 6%
State Government 15 7.5%
Federal Government 8 4%
Military 2 1%
Federal Judicial Clerkships 7 3.5%
State Judicial Clerkships 4 1.9%
Local Judicial Clerkships 1 0.5%
Corp./Other Business & Industry 28 13.9%
Public Interest 6 3%
Academic 10 5%
Total 201 100%