Moritz Graduate Placement Statistics

A Moritz law degree provides many opportunities and every year our graduates obtain positions in a broad array of job sectors, including traditional law firm practice, government and public interest, academia, and business. Our career service staff helps students achieve their goals during and after law school through individualized self- assessment, identifying appropriate legal career options, providing training in job search skills and offering many sources of employment opportunities.

Graduate Employment Rate for the class of 2012 as reported to NALP on February 15, 2013

Law schools report employment information to the National Association of Law Placement (“NALP”) on a set date in February each year.  For the class of 2012, Moritz was able to report employment information for 99.5% of the class.

General Summary

Total number of graduates: 222
Total number reported: 221
Graduates seeking employment: 216*

*Five students reported they were not currently seeking employment; three of these students were studying for the bar exam.

	Number	Percent of Total Seeking	Percent of Total in Class
Employed Full-Time	180	83.3%	81.1%
Pursuing Graduate Degree	5	2.3%	2.3%
Employed Part-Time	23	10.6%	10.4%
Unemployed, Seeking Employment	4	1.9%	1.8%
Not Working - Start Date Deferrerd	4	1.9%	1.8%
TOTAL	216	100%	97.4%

Breakdown by Type of Employment

Students at Moritz have diverse career goals, and we work closely with our students to help them find rewarding employment consistent with their goals and interests.    Some students seek traditional legal work within law firms, the government, or public interest entities.  Others seek policy, management and administrative work, in which employers prefer, but do not require legal training.   In addition, every year a number of Moritz graduates choose to pursue professional work in which their law degrees are not a part of the job descriptions.  In most of these positions, their legal training helps them both attain the job and succeed in them.  Such positions include serving in federal, state and local government, holding public office, creating new businesses and running existing ones,  and working in educational institutions and other non-profit organizations.  Here is the breakdown of the class of 2012 by job criteria:

Employment Status	Number	Percent of Those Employed	Percent of Total Class	Full-Time		Part-Time
				Long-Term	Short-Term	Long-Term	Short-Term
Bar Exam Passage Required	148	72.9%	66.7%	127	11	7	3
J.D. Advantage	46	22.7%	20.7%	33	1	6	6
Other Professional Employment	7	3.4%	3.2%	6	1	0	0
Non-Professional Employment	1	0.5%	0.5%	1	0	0	0
Employed - Undeterminable	1	0.5%	0.5%	0	0	0	1

Of the remaining 19 graduates (8.6% of the total class), four obtained jobs before February 15, 2013 with a start date deferred (one Bar Passage Required Full-Time/Long-Term, one Bar Passage Required Part-Time/Short-Term, one J.D. Advantage Full-Time/Long-Term, and one J.D. Advantage Part-Time/Short-Term), five were pursuing graduate degrees, five were not seeking employment (three of whom were studying for the bar exam), four were seeking but unemployed (one of whom was studying for the bar exam) and one was unknown.

Five students who were working in short-term jobs worked solely for Moritz faculty or programs or the university.

Every year, Moritz provides Career Start Grants to up to twenty graduates in order to enable them to gain work experience with organizations and in fields that will further their career goals.  Of the twenty graduates from the class of 2012 who took advantage of this opportunity, twelve were employed in short-term positions funded solely by the grant, four utilized the grant in conjunction with other employment, and four secured full-time employment prior to February 15, 2013.  Eleven of the thirteen participants last year gained full-time employment following the completion of the grant.  Graduates receiving grants were located in six different states (OH, NY, TX, SC, IL, and CA) and the District of Columbia.  Participating organizations ranged from private firms to not-for-profits to government entities.

Here is the breakdown of the class of 2012 by sector:

Click here for further information and to see some of the employers who have hired our 2012 graduates on a full time basis.

Every year, the Moritz Career Services Office organizes panels of professionals who speak to students about experiences in traditional law careers as well as those in other sectors. Click here to see examples of recent programs.

Employment by Geography

Graduates from the class of 2012 found employment throughout the United States, with four graduates accepting employment overseas. As a member of the National Law School Consortium (NLSC), an association of eight top public law schools from across the U.S., Moritz provides the opportunity for its students to meet employers to whom they may not otherwise be exposed by attending NLSC job fairs in various U.S. legal markets.

Salary Information

Salary data is self-reported by graduates, and 54.5% of the employed 2012 graduates reported their starting salaries which ranged from $55,000 in the 25th percentile to $91,250 in the 75th percentile, with a median salary of $67,500. Reported starting salaries vary widely within the private and public sectors.

Click here for a breakdown of salaries by sector.

For additional information on salary statistics nationally for beginning attorneys, visit http://www.nalp.org/recentgraduates.

Source of Job

Moritz graduates obtain legal jobs by a number of pathways, including on and off-campus interview programs through which law firms and public sector employers routinely hire our students, job postings on our web-based job site, and from working with career counselors to develop personalized job search strategies.

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In order to better prepare students for their job search, Moritz career counselors plan a variety of programs and networking events throughout the year. Click here to see some examples of recent programs.

 

ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2012

Additional employment information for the Class of 2012 can be found in the 2013 ABA Placement Report.

*The report may not reflect recent revisions submitted to the ABA.

 

Rounding may cause one-tenth discrepancy in the reported numbers.