Graduate Employment Survey

required fields are marked with an asterisk (*)

I. DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Name:*
Phone:
Permanent Address:
E-mail:*
A. Program type at time of graduation:
Full-Time/3-Year Part-time/Evening
B. AGE (Complete either B1 or B2)
B1. Age at Graduation
B2. Birth Date Month: Day: , Year:
C. GENDER: Male Female
D. RACE/ETHNICITY (You may check up to two)
Hispanic/Latino
Black/African American
Asian
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
American Indian/Alaska Native
White/Caucasian
E. DISABILITY
No Yes (describe)

II. POST GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT STATUS
A1. Select only one of the following to describe your post-graduate status:
Employed in a position for which you receive a salary or a stipend or are being paid on a contract or retainer basis
(also complete the items in sections A3 and B)
Enrolled in a full-time degree or certificate program
Not employed - start date deferred (also complete items A2 and 7; the rest of the form is not applicable)
Not employed and seeking work/paid position (also complete item A2; the rest of the form is not applicable)
Not employed and not seeking work/paid position (please also complete item A2; the rest of the form is not applicable)
A2. If you are not employed, are you volunteering?
Yes, in a law-related capacity
Yes, not in a law-related capacity
No
A3. Job Information
1. Type of Job
Bar admission required/anticipated (Includes judicial clerks)
JD advantage
Other professional position (describe)
Non-professional position (describe)
2. Job is:
Full-time Part-time
3. Job Pays:
A salary of $ per year.
A stipend of $ per week | month | per project
4. Indicate whether the employer hired you on a short-term or long-term basis. Note that a long-term job from the employer's perspective may be one that you consider short-term, while, for example, you continue to seek a different job. Please indicate the type of job from the employer's perspective.
Job is long-term (1 year or more, specify duration below)
Job has a known or fixed duration, e.g., 1 year, 2 years, or project-based
Job does not have a known end-point
Job is short-term (duration is fixed at less than a year)
Special funding: If your job has a fixed duration, whether short-term (e.g. less than 1 year) or long-term (e.g. 1 or 2 years), please Indicate if the job is funded in either of the following ways:

The job is funded in whole or in part by a grant from an outside organization, e.g., Skadden Fellowship, Equal Justice Works
Describe:

The job is funded in whole or in part by my law school
5. Indicate whether you are seeking a Job other than the one described here
I continue to seek a job other than that described here
I am not seeking a job other than that described here
6. Timing of offer
Before graduation
After graduation but before bar results
After bar results
7. Date Received Offer
Month Year
8. Date on which you started or will start your job
Month Day Year
9. Source of Job: Mark the one choice that best describes how you learned of and made Initial contact with the employer. If you received an offer from your summer employer, or the employer for whom you worked during law school, indicate how you initially made contact with that employer.
Interviewed during fall OCI program organized by the career services office
Interviewed during spring OCI program organized by the career services office
Returned to or continued with pre-law school employer
Interviewed at job fair or consortia
Responded to job posting in career services' print or online posting/bulletin/jobline/binder/direct contact listing or utilized its resume referral service
Referral by business colleague, friend, relative, alumni, or school personnel
Responded to job posting, either in print (e.g., classified ad) or in a commercial or non-profit job site such as Monster, Oscar, PSJD, USAJobs, etc.
Initiated contact by means of a targeted mailing or informational interviewing, or as a result of networking
Used a temporary placement agency or legal search consullant
Started own practice or business
Other (describe)
B. EMPLOYER INFORMATION

NAME AND ADDRESS OF EMPLOYER

Name:

Street:

City: State Zip

COMPLETE B1, B2, AND B3 ONLY IF YOUR PRIMARY JOB IS IN LAW FIRM PRIVATE PRACTICE. IF NOT, SKIP TO B4/B5, B6/B7, B8 or B9/B10 AS APPROPRIATE. IF YOU ARE EMPLOYED BY A LEGAL TEMPORARY AGENCY, SKIP TO B4 AND B5 (BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY) REGARDLESS OF THE EMPLOYER AT WHICH THE AGENCY HAS PLACED YOU.

B1. TOTAL SIZE OF LAW FIRM
(Mark only one for size of entire firm by total number of attorneys)
Solo (you have started your own law firm as a solo practitioner)
2 - 10 Attorneys
11 - 25 Attorneys
26 - 50 Attorneys
51 - 100 Attorneys
101 - 250 Attorneys
251 - 500 Attorneys
501+ Attorneys
B2. Firm is a public interest law firm Yes No
B3. TYPE OF LAW FIRM
Associate (partnership track)
Staff Attorney (non-partnership track)
Law Clerk
Paralegal
Administrator or other non-attorney position

IF JOB IS IN BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY, COMPLETE BOTH B4 AND B5.

B4. TYPE OF EMPLOYER
Legal temporary agency
Accounting firm
Investment banking or financial institution
Entertainment/sports management company
Insurance company
Management consulting firm
Publishing house
Legal process outsourcer (LPO)
Legal/law-related technology company
Other technology/e-commerce company
Trade association or political campaign
Other business or industry (describe)
B5. TYPE OF JOB
Temporary attorney work
Temporary law clerk or paralegal work
Compliance
In-house legal
Management
Business development/Sales/Marketing
Consulting
Self-employed
Other (describe)

IF JOB IS IN GOVERNMENT, COMPLETE BOTH B6 AND B7.

B6. Level of Government
Federal
State
Local (city/municipal/county)
Other (describe)
B7. TYPE OF JOB
Judicial Clerkship
Judicial - other (non-clerkship, e.g., staff attorney)
Military JAG Corps (any service)
Other military position (uniformed or civilian)
Prosecutor
Agency Honors program
Other administrative or executive branch agency position
Legislative (e.g., legislative assistant)
Other (describe)
B8. IF JOB IS IN A PUBLIC INTEREST ORGANIZATION OR OTHER NONPROFIT (Mark one item that best describes the primary type of work or job you will be handling)
Community education and organization
Civil legal services
Policy/advocacy
Public defender or appellate defender
Other (describe)

IF JOB IS IN ACADEMIA/EDUCATION COMPLETE BOTH B9 AND B10.

B9. Type of Employer
Law School
College or university
Elementary or secondary school
Other (describe)
B10. Type of Job
Faculty/teacher
Administrator
Research assistant/fellow or other temporary position

III. SECOND JOB INFORMATION (Complete only if you have a job concurrent with that reported above.)
NAME AND ADDRESS OF EMPLOYER

Name:

Street:

City: , State Zip

A1. TYPE OF JOB
Bar admission required/anticipated (includes judicial clerks)
JD Preferred
Other professional position (describe)
Other non-professional position (describe)
A2. JOB IS:
Full-time
Part-time
A3. EMPLOYER TYPE
Law firm private practice
Business/Industry
Government
Judicial clerkship
Public interest
Academic

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