The nine-month employment rate for the Class of 2010 was 88.1%.
Class of 2010

Class of 2010
Range of Reported Salaries (the class of 2010)
The range of salaries presented below is intended simply as a guideline to the approximate salaries you might expect to receive. These figures vary from year to year based upon market conditions as well as the number of graduates reporting salary information to us, but historically the variations have been insignificant when viewed as general guidelines. This year, we received salary information from 71% of our graduates in private practice.
| Law Firms |
Median Starting Salary |
Salary Range (25th - 75th percentile) |
|
501 or more attorneys |
$160,000 |
$160,000 - $160,000 |
251 - 500 attorneys |
$160,000 |
$145,000 - $160,000 |
101 - 250 attorneys |
$150,000 |
$120,000 - $160,000 |
51 - 100 attorneys |
$118,500 |
$65,000 - $138,000 |
26 - 50 attorneys |
$75,000 |
$63,000 - $140,000 |
11 - 25 attorneys |
$55,000 |
$50,000 - $85,000 |
2 - 10 attorneys |
$53,000 |
$44,000 - $67,000 |
|
Corporations |
$81,250 |
$66,000 - $197,500 |
Government |
$52,500 |
$50,000 - $59,000 |
| Judicial Clerks |
$62,300 |
$44,000 - $63,000 |
Public Interest |
$50,000 |
$50,000 - $50,000 |
|
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Bear Sterns
Berdon LLP
Bloomberg
Capitol Records
CB Richard Ellis
Chanel
Citigroup
Colgate Palmolive
Constituency Management Group
Credit Suisse First Boston
Deloitte LLP
Deutsche Bank
EMI Music Publishing
Ernst & Young
Forest Laboratories
Fortress Investment Group
ING Group
JetBlue Airways
KPMG
Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
MTV Networks
NBC Universal
New York Stock Exchange
News Corporation
Pfizer
Public Broadcasting Service
PriceWaterhouse Coopers
Smith Barney
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp
The Screen Actors Guild
Tiffany & Co.
Viacom
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Bronx County District Attorney
City of San Francisco Department of Planning
Dade County State Attorney's Office
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Florida State Attorney's Office
Kings County District Attorney
LA County Public Defender’s Office
Los Angeles Police Department
Nassau County District Attorney
National Labor Relations Board
New Jersey Bureau of Securities
New York City Administration for Children's Services
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York City Department of Design & Construction
New York City Department of Education
New York City Department of Environmental Protection
New York City Department of Finance
New York City Housing Authority
New York City Law Department
New York City Office of Collective Bargaining
New York City Police Department
New York City Transit Authority
New York County District Attorney
New York State Attorney General's Office
New York State Banking Department
New York State Finance Agency/State of New York Mortgage Agency
NGO in Hong Kong
Office of Administrative Trials & Hearings
Philadelphia District Attorney
Queens County District Attorney
Richmond County District Attorney
Suffolk County District Attorney
United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (Sudan)
United States Army JAG
United States Attorney's Office
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States Department of Homeland Security
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
United States Department of Justice
United States Department of Labor United States Department of Transportation
United States Environmental Protection Agency
United States Immigration Court DOJ Honors Program
United States Internal Revenue Service – Office of the Chief Counsel
United States Navy JAG
United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Westchester County District Attorney
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New York State Supreme Court-Appellate Division-2nd Dept.
New York State Supreme Court
State Supreme Court, Nevada
Superior Court of New Jersey
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
U.S. District Court, Eastern District, New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District, New York
U.S. District Court, Western District, New York
U.S. District Court, New Jersey
U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court, Central District, California
U.S. District Court, District of Columbia U.S. District Court, Middle District, Florida
U.S. District Court, Southern District, Florida
U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Michigan
U.S. District Court, Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, Northern District, Texas
U.S. District Court, Western District, Texas
U.S. District Court, Western District, Louisiana
U.S. District Court, Western District, Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court, Western District, Tennessee
U.S. District Court, Northern District, Georgia
U.S. District Court, South Carolina
U.S. District Court, Western District, Wisconsin
U.S. District Court, Maryland
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, New Jersey
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District, New York
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District, New York
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
U.S. Court of International Trade
U.S. Tax Court
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Alston & Bird LLP
Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein
Baker & Hostetler
Baker & McKenzie
Baker Botts
Belkin Burden
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Blank Rome LLP
Bracewell & Giuliani
Bryan Cave LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Chadbourne & Parke
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance US LLP
Cooper & Dunham
Covington & Burling
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Crowell & Moring
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Day Pitney LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
DLA Piper US LLP
Duane Morris
Epstein Becker & Green
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
Fragomen Del Rey Bernson & Loewy
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Garfunkel, Wild & Travis
Goodwin Procter LLP
Greenberg Traurig
Hahn & Hessen LLP
Herrick, Feinstein LLP
Hogan Lovells LLP
Holland & Knight
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Jackson Lewis
Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kaye, Scholer, LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren
Kenyon & Kenyon
King & Spalding LLP
Kirkland & Ellis
Kramer Levin
K & L Gates LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Linklaters
Martin Clearwater & Bell
McDermott Will & Emery
Mintz Levin
Morgan Lewis
Morrison & Foerster
O'Melveny & Myers LLP Patton Boggs LLP
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP
Paul Hastings
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Reed Smith
Ropes & Gray
Schulte Roth
Seward & Kissel
Shearman & Sterling
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Venable
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Whatley Drake & Kallas
White & Case LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
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Advocates for Children
American Civil Liberties Union
American Indian Law Alliance
Amnesty International
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
Bronx Defenders
Center for Reproductive Rights
Central American Task Force (Washington)
Environmental Defense Fund
Gay Men's Health Crisis
Housing Conservation Coordinators
Human Rights Watch (California)
Indego Africa Project
International Human Rights Law Institute
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, Bangkok, Thailand
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
Human Rights First
Legal Action Center
The Legal Aid Society Criminal Defense Division
The Legal Aid Society Juvenile Rights Division
The Legal Aid Society Prisoner's Rights Project
The VERA Institute for Justice
Legal Momentum
Legal Services of New York
Legal Services of Northern California (Woodland)
Legal Services of Seattle
New York Civil Liberties Union
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
New York Legal Assistance Group
Office of the Appellate Defender, New York
Planned Parenthood
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF)
Safe Horizon, Anti-Trafficking Unit
Sanctuary for Families
Special Court for Sierra Leone
United Nations Development Program / United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice
Urban Justice Center
Research Institute, Maputo, Mozambique
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Volunteer Lawyers Project/Buffalo, NY