Michigan Law School
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What type of career support does the school provide
out-of-state students who choose to seek employment back in their home states
after graduating from Michigan?
One of Michigan Law's great strengths is the freedom its graduates have to find
employment in the full range of legal fields, with more geographic flexibility
than any other school. Our graduates spread out all over the country when they
leave us, with fewer than 20% choosing to go to any individual market. (The
markets to which our graduates most frequently have gone in the last ten years
or so have consistently been New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Los Angeles/San
Francisco, Detroit, and Boston.) In other words – our graduates can certainly
seek employment "back in their home states," but they can easily move on to a
brand-new region of the country, too. In recognition of our students' desire
for geographic flexibility, the four attorneys who serve as career counselors
are very familiar, through alumni and current students and their own extensive
legal careers, with the special characteristics of a wide variety of locations,
and the Office of Career Services annually brings in legal recruitment
specialists from every major market to give group presentations and have
individual meetings with our students. In 2003 (the most recent year for which
definitive data is available), more than 700 employers came on campus from all
over the nation (and internationally as well) to perform almost 8000 interviews
of 2Ls and 3Ls. About 120 of those employers came from California; about
90 from New York; about 75 from DC; and about 55
from Illinois (almost exclusively from Chicago). Our historic pattern of
employment means that our students will find a thriving alumni network in every
major market, and is the reason so many employers from Ann Arbor to recruit our
students. (It also makes for a less stressful atmosphere during on-campus
interviewing, since relatively few students are looking at one particular firm,
compared with other schools, where 50% or more of the graduates congregate in a
single market.) Likewise, typically 20% of our graduates obtain prestigious
judicial clerkships for the year following graduation; the vast majority of
those clerkships are in the federal courts, and typically, every federal circuit
has at least one Michigan clerk.
What distinguishes University of Michigan Law School and
its students?
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University of Michigan Law School combines the accessibility and openness of the
public school tradition with the excellence and aspirations commonly associated
with elite private institutions. This combination forges a community devoted to
academic excellence, leadership, and service. The lifelong devotion of its
alumni – both emotionally and financially – creates a dynamic learning and
professional community.
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