CAREERS Penn Carey Law provides comprehensive career support to our students. From private practice and the government to public interest jobs and clerkships, our experienced counselors in the Office of Career Planning & Professionalism help you decide on your next steps. Meanwhile, the Center on Professionalism offers programming to equip you with the practical skills to succeed throughout your career. The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Future of the Profession Initiative recognizes a leading law school’s role in designing forward-looking lawyer formation and leading essential interdisciplinary conversations that respond to the fundamental changes that are transforming the legal profession. FPI will teach the skills and knowledge most relevant for modern legal professionals, lead broad conversations about innovative opportunities that abound in the dynamic legal profession, and transform the way legal services connect clients with more responsive systems.
EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
386
99
%
Students and Alumni
of the Class of 2019
received judicial clerkships in the last five years
graduates employed as of March 15, 2020
Our 2019 graduates are working in these geographic regions:
46.0% 15.7% 8.9% 7.7% 4.4% 3.2% 2.8% 2.0% 1.2% 8.1%
New York Pennsylvania Washington, D.C. California Delaware Massachusetts New Jersey Texas International Other*
* Other includes AK, CO, FL, IL, KY, LA, MD, NH, NC, OH, OR, TN, VT, VA, WA, and WV.
2
75.8% Law Firm
Our 2019 graduates are working in these fields:
11.7% Judicial Clerkships 5.6% Public Interest 3.6% Government 3.2% Business or Industry