midwestern heritage, global impact
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NUMBER OF STATES (AND DC) WHERE CLASS OF 2014 GRADUATES CHOSE JOBS
24 PUBLIC LAW SCHOOL IN THE MIDWEST PUBLIC LAW SCHOOL IN THE MIDWEST
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PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATING CLASS CHOOSING JOBS OUTSIDE OF INDIANA
COUNTRIES WHERE INDIANA LAW ALUMNI LIVE AND WORK
PERCENTAGE OF CLASS OF 2015 GRADUATES WORKING IN LARGE FIRMS (101+), BUSINESS, OR GOVERNMENT
AN INVESTMENT IN AN INDIANA LAW GRADUATE IS AN INVESTMENT IN A WELL-ROUNDED PROFESSIONAL F For almost 175 years, the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has stood with the nation’s greatest public law schools, preparing students to become accomplished, ethical lawyers and leaders. In recent years, we have emerged as an innovator in legal education, with a curriculum that meets the demands of a changing profession. But we do more than that. Equally important are the contributions of our school to the economic and social well-being of our society. Through our global and domestic externship programs, public-interest clinics, and first-hand interactions with alumni, our students learn early on about the power of a law degree in achieving justice and effecting change. Every year, our graduates choose careers in major markets throughout the country, such as Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC. Typically about two-thirds of our graduates are hired by employers outside the state of Indiana. An Indiana Law education offers another important dimension that gives our graduates an added edge: the opportunity to develop their professional identity. Our students learn the skills that lawyers need but don’t usually acquire in school, such as resilience, judgment, time management, and collaboration. Our faculty act as role models and caring mentors, and our alumni are deeply invested in paying their success forward to the next generation of alumni. This combination of classroom study, hands-on learning, and professional development creates an educational experience for our students that few other schools in the country can match. When you hire an Indiana Law graduate, you’ll be investing in a well-rounded professional, ready to hit the ground running, with a combination of Midwestern work ethic and finely honed legal reasoning skills, sharpened by our internationally renowned faculty. Maurer School of Law graduates bring a tradition of excellence to the legal profession. We invite you to get acquainted with them as you chart the future of your organization.
indiana law students: classroom-taught, hands-on experienced In addition to their close association with faculty, Indiana Law students benefit from a wide range of experiences — both inside and outside the classroom — that prepare them for the legal profession. In our unique Semester Public Interest Program, students spend half of their 3L year in Washington, DC, working in a federal agency, on Capitol Hill, or in a non-profit public advocacy organization, while they earn eight hours of credit. At the same time, they meet distinguished alumni whose careers illustrate the many aspects of the profession in the federal government. Students interested in international law can serve as Milton Stewart Fellows in one of eight countries in Asia or South America. The fellows get hands-on summer experience in law firms, corporations, or non-government organizations while earning course credit. Nearly 100 students have served as Stewart Fellows since 2010. Indiana University and the Law School have joined forces to offer several joint degrees, including a JD/MBA from the Kelley School of Business’s #22-ranked program, a JD/MPA from the #1-ranked School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and many other options, including communications, accounting, and public health. The Law School also offers a JD/MBA with Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. Students have many opportunities throughout the year to examine the profession in a practical context. Our Career Choices series brings alumni to Baier Hall for informal chats over lunch in which they share their experiences, and our innovative first-year Legal Profession course combines legal ethics with self-assessment of interests and strengths. All of these opportunities — together with our seven clinics, nine externships, six student-run projects, and five research centers — round out our students’ classroom learning, giving them the extra edge of preparedness required of today’s new lawyers.
INDIANA LAW STUDENTS REPRESENT THE BEST OF THE BEST FROM ACROSS THE NATION Number of states: 24
Number of undergraduate institutions: 76
Median LSAT: 161
Median undergraduate GPA: 3.77 (10th highest among US law schools)
Percentage of entering students from out-of-state: 49 Cornell University
schools represented include 3 Indiana University Bloomington Purdue University
Tulane University
University of Michigan Wabash College
Kenyon College
DePauw University
Miami University
Northwestern University
University of California – Berkeley
University of Notre Dame
Grinnell College
University of Virginia
University of Chicago Vanderbilt University
Xavier University
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GRADUATES OF INDIANA LAW’S PARTNER SCHOOLS RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING, AN UPPER-CLASS MENTOR, AND FELLOWSHIPS IN OUR RESEARCH CENTERS Albion College
Brooklyn College
Grinnell College
Hope College
Coe College
Dartmouth College
DePauw University
Indiana University Bloomington: College of Arts and Sciences,
Jacobs School of Music, School of Global and International Studies, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Groups Program, Hudson & Holland Scholars, 21st Century Scholars Knox College Vassar College
Marian University
US Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps
Princeton University
Wabash College
engineering schools 3 Purdue University
Kenyon College
Georgia Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
women’s colleges 3
Barnard College
Mount Holyoke College
Smith College
Iowa State University University of Rochester
Bryn Mawr College Wellesley College
Cottey College
Mills College
today’s students, tomorrow’s leaders Indiana Law students choose careers in a variety of settings throughout the world. Here are just a few examples of the professional paths that they have chosen. 1
Abishek (Jay) Chaudhary, ’09, developed an interest in mental health
advocacy while participating in the Law School’s disability law clinic. He later secured funding to establish a medical-legal partnership with Indiana Legal Services and Eskenazi Health, the parent of Midtown Community Health Center in Indianapolis, and serves as its director. 2
Justin Agans, ’12, earned a JD/MBA and participated in our Elmore
Entrepreneurship Law Clinic before moving to Charlotte, NC, where he and Eric Spengler, JD/MPA ’12, founded Spengler & Agans. The firm focuses on serving local startups and entrepreneurs. 3
Lance Lindeen, ’12, a JD/MPA graduate and Sherman Minton Moot
Court chief justice is putting his advocacy skills to work in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. 4
Rubin Pusha III, ’12, president of the Black Students’ Law Association,
is now an associate in the finance, insolvency, and restructuring department at Barnes & Thornburg’s Indianapolis office. 5
Nathan Harter IV, ’13, worked as an intern with his hometown
prosecutor’s office in Decatur County (Ind.) in 2012. He enjoyed the experience so much that he successfully campaigned for the job and became Indiana’s youngest elected prosecutor during his first year of practice. 6
Emily Sanchez Salcedo, SJD’13, a law professor and litigator from
the Philippines, earned a graduate degree to sharpen her teaching skills. She recently spent eight months as a visiting scholar at two universities in Canada.
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Caleb Bean, ’14, an electrical engineering major at Purdue, became interested in patent law under the
guidance of our Center for Intellectual Property Research. While in law school, he worked as a research assistant and served as president of the Intellectual Property Association. He is currently an associate at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Orange County, California. 8
Julie Spain, ’14, president of the Law School’s Student Bar Association, is working as a litigation and estate
planning lawyer at a small firm in Marysville, Ohio. 9
Jade La Croix, ’16, worked as a law clerk for the IU Foundation, was a fellow in the Office of Alumni and
Development, and served as treasurer of the Black Law Students Association. She is now with the Advisory Services Group at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in their New York office.
indiana law faculty: preparing tomorrow’s professionals A law school is only as strong as its faculty, who teach our students, serve our communities, and conduct ground-breaking research. Indiana Law’s faculty are the central force in the development of our students, acting as caring mentors and role models. Students also benefit from our faculty’s expertise by serving as research assistants or conferring with them informally outside the classroom. Our faculty have established five outstanding research centers in information privacy and cybersecurity, intellectual property, rule of law and constitutional design, the global legal profession, and law and society. We also have highly regarded programs in tax, conservation and sustainability, and business law. Along with our clinics, externships, and projects, our research centers and programs provide our students with hands-on experiences. Professor William D. Henderson, the founding director of our Center on the Global Legal Profession, continues to receive accolades from the academy and the profession for his research on the changing landscape of the practice of law. Quoted almost daily in the national media, he was named — for the second year in a row — by National Jurist magazine in 2016 as the most influential person in legal education today.
LEFT COLUMN FROM TOP: WILLIAM D. HENDERSON, FRED H. CATE, CHARLES GARDNER GEYH, HANNAH L. BUXBAUM, JAYANTH KRISHNAN. RIGHT COLUMN: CHRISTIANA OCHOA, JEANNINE BELL, MARK D. JANIS, GINA-GAIL S. FLETCHER, H. TIMOTHY LOVELACE.
Professor Fred H. Cate is one of the world’s leading experts on cybersecurity and privacy policy. He is a member of numerous committees for the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Federal Trade Commission. He was recently named to the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as IU’s vice president for research. Professor Charles Gardner Geyh is a regular contributor to the national debate on judicial qualification and selection. He has been named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow — one of only 33 in the country — and will be writing a sequel to his new book, Courting Peril: The Political Transformation of the American Judiciary, certainly one of the most timely and important topics in today’s politically charged environment. In addition to her acclaim as a popular contracts teacher, Professor Hannah L. Buxbaum enjoys a worldwide reputation as an expert in international and comparative law, particularly transactions and conflicts of law. She was recently named academic director of IU’s new Global Gateway office in Berlin. Professor Jayanth Krishnan, the current director of the Center on the Global Legal Profession, is widely regarded as the American leading expert on the Indian legal profession. His close ties with the bench and bar of that country have led to life-changing summer externships for our students, while his research helps reshape its legal system. Another CGLP faculty member, Professor and IU Associate Vice Provost Christiana Ochoa, recently completed a documentary titled There Is Nothing Else (Otra cosa no hay), which explores the impact of gold mining on the pristine moorlands of Colombia. Her work is shining the light on the conflict between economic prosperity and human wellbeing, a theme that informs lively discussions in her course on international business transactions. One of the nation’s foremost experts on hate crime, Professor Jeannine Bell also researches and writes on the more recent phenomenon of move-in violence. She was recently appointed co-editor of the Law and Society Review, having served as its associate editor and as a trustee of the Law and Society Association. Professor Mark D. Janis, ’89, director of the Center for Intellectual Property Research, leads the school’s efforts to capitalize on the growing demand for IP lawyers. The center’s pro bono IP clinic pairs students with Indiana startups to protect their innovations. The clinic has been certified by the US Patent and Trademark Office in both patent and trademark law, a distinction awarded to fewer than 10 percent of the country’s law schools. In addition to these seasoned faculty members, our rising stars have already made an impact as teachers and scholars. Among them are Associate Professor Gina-Gail S. Fletcher, who teaches and writes on corporate finance and the financial markets and brings her experience as a Washington lawyer to the classroom. Associate Professor H. Timothy Lovelace, an expert on legal history and civil rights, recently completed a Law and Public Affairs Fellowship at Princeton University. These are just a few of the nearly 100 engaged and interested full-time, adjunct, and affiliated faculty who call the Law School home and who prepare our students for a life of service in their chosen profession.
your partner in professional placement The Maurer School of Law Career Services Office partners with law firms and legal organizations to place our talented graduates, who are proud, professional and practice-ready. Our services include: On-campus interviews that give you the opportunity to interview and select candidates from a diverse group of highly qualified students who meet your specifications. Résumé collects for employers unable to participate in on-campus interviewing: The Career Services Office will assemble and sends résumé packets to employers based on your screening criteria. Virtual interviewing via our state-of-the-art remote technology links. On-location recruiting in cities such as Chicago: We bring our top talent to your office, which saves you the time and expense of traveling to Bloomington. Employer walk-arounds in Chicago, Indianapolis, and Washington, DC, where a group of our students come to you for introductions and networking. Program participation, which gives you the opportunity to recruit by participating in professional development and career-oriented programs as presenters and panelists. Client visits and check-ins: Let us meet with your recruiting team to learn more about your recruiting process and needs, determine your screening specifications, share market information to help you remain competitive in the law school recruiting market, and receive feedback about our candidates. We will be pleased to work with you on these programs, or to tailor a program that suits your hiring goals. For more information, contact Rachel Dawson, ’99, Assistant Dean for Career Services, (812) 855-0258, or lcareers@indiana.edu.
ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LIST OF INDIANA LAW RECRUITMENT PARTNERS CHICAGO ON-LOCATION RECRUITING Baker & McKenzie Chapman & Cutler Dinsmore & Shohl Greenberg Traurig Jenner & Block Jones Day Latham & Watkins Locke Lord Mayer Brown McDermott Will & Emery Morgan Lewis & Bockius Reed Smith ON-CAMPUS RECRUITING Armstrong Teasdale (St. Louis) Barnes & Thornburg (Indianapolis) Barrett McNagny (Fort Wayne, Ind.) Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff (Cleveland) Bingham Greenebaum Doll (Indianapolis) Bryan Cave (Chicago) Burke Costanza & Carberry (Merrillville, Ind.) Burke Warren MacKay & Serritella (Chicago) Carson Boxberger (Fort Wayne, Ind.) Densborn Blachly (Indianapolis) Dinsmore & Shohl (Cincinnati) Faegre Baker Daniels (Indianapolis) Foster Swift Collins & Smith (Lansing, Mich.) Fredrikson & Byron (Minneapolis) Frost Brown Todd (Cincinnati) Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman (Indianapolis) Honigman Miller (Detroit) Ice Miller (Indianapolis) Kightlinger & Gray (Indianapolis) Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear (Irvine, Calif.) Lewis Wagner (Indianapolis)
Parr Richey Obremskey Frandsen & Patterson (Indianapolis) Quarles & Brady (Indianapolis) Riley Bennett & Egloff (Indianapolis) Rothberg Logan Warsco (Fort Wayne, Ind.) Schiff Hardin (Chicago) Scopelitis Garvin Light Hanson & Feary (Indianapolis) Stuart & Branigin (Lafayette, Ind.) Taft Stettinius & Hollister (Indianapolis) Warner Norcross & Judd (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Wooden McLaughlin (Indianapolis) NATIONAL RECRUITING — RÉSUMÉ COLLECTS Bailey Cavalieri (Columbus, Ohio) Bamberger Foreman Oswald & Hahn (Evansville, Ind.) Bricker & Eckler (Columbus, Ohio) Calfee Halter & Griswold (Cleveland) Cole Schotz (North Hackensack, N.J.) Covington & Burling (Washington, DC) Fish & Richardson (San Diego) Jackson Kelly (Charleston, W. Va.) Kirkland & Ellis (Chicago) Lowndes Drosdick Doster (Orlando, Fla.) McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff (Chicago) Nixon Peabody (Chicago) Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker (Washington, DC) Polsinelli (St. Louis) Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati) Reinhart Boerner VanDeuren (Milwaukee) Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck (Washington, DC) Sidley Austin (Chicago) Skadden Arps (New York) Stinson Leonard Street (Minneapolis) Varnum (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek (Milwaukee) Woods Oviatt Gilman (Rochester, N.Y.)
PUBLIC SERVICE AND DIVERSITY: CORE VALUES OF THE INDIANA LAW COMMUNITY Indiana Law students develop their commitment to pro bono representation early in their law school experience. Most students achieve our guideline of providing 60 hours’ pro bono service during their three years in Bloomington. Students contribute their time and talent in such diverse areas as immigration, inmate assistance, domestic violence, tenant evictions, and tax assistance. In 2015-16 alone, they helped more than 950 area residents complete their tax returns. The Law School plays an active role in attracting an inclusive community and promoting diversity among its student body. Our partnership with IU’s Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs provides scholarship and mentoring to students in the university’s Hudson and Holland Scholars, Groups, and 21st Century Scholars programs. We also work closely with the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunity, the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, the Asian and Pacific Islander Scholarship Fund, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to attract highly qualified candidates to the Law School.
Career Services Office / (812) 855-0258 / lcareers@indiana.edu Baier Hall / 211 S. Indiana Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405 / law.indiana.edu