Law Class of 2024 Employment Summary

The Class of 2024 from Washington and Lee University School of Law shows another year of strong performance in employment. The Office of Career Strategy reports that 95 percent of the Law Class of 2024 secured a long-term, full-time job that either required bar passage or for which a J.D. degree was an advantage. The overall employment rate for the class, including students in graduate school, is nearly 98 percent.

Law Firms

Each year a large portion of our graduating class finds employment at law firms of varying sizes, where over 50 percent of the Class of 2024 are employed in law firms with 250 attorneys or more. Below are some of the Am Law 100, Am Law 200, and other prominent firms where our students will be working:

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • Apollo Sports & Entertainment Law Group
  • Armbrecht Jackson
  • Bass Berry & Sims
  • Bradley
  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • Davis Polk & Wardell LLP
  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • Duane Morris
  • Eversheds Sutherland
  • Faegre Drinker
  • Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP
  • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • Gentry Locke Attorneys
  • Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP
  • Glenn Feldmann Darby & Goodlatte
  • Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
  • Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP
  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • Hudgins Law Firm, P.C.
  • Huff Powell Bailey
  • Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
  • Jackson Kelly PLLC
  • Jones Day
  • Jones, Hurley & Hand
  • Kaufman & Canoles
  • Kiernan Trebach LLP
  • KPM Law
  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • Libby Hoopes Brooks & Mulvey, P.C.
  • Lightfoot Franklin & White
  • Manning Gross + Massenburg LLP
  • Maynard Nexsen
  • McCandlish Holton, PC
  • McDermott Will & Emery LLP
  • McGavin Boyce Bardot Thorsen & Katz PC
  • McGuireWoods
  • MichieHamlett
  • Moore & Van Allen PLLC
  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
  • Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP
  • Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC
  • Phillips Lytle LLP
  • PJI Law
  • Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
  • Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC
  • Saul Ewing
  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • Schwartz Hannum PC
  • Seward & Kissel LLP
  • Sheppard Mullin
  • Sidley Austin LLP
  • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
  • Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC
  • The Law Office of David C. Deal
  • Thomas Thomas & Hafer, LLP
  • Thompson Burton PLLC
  • Troutman Pepper Locke
  • Venable LLP
  • Warner Norcross & Judd LLP
  • Wick Phillips
  • Wiley Rein
  • Wilks Law, LLC
  • Williams & Connolly
  • Williams Mullen
  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
  • Yates Campbell & Hoeg LLP

Judicial Clerkships

One particular area of strength for W&L Law has always been placement in federal and state clerkships. For our Class of 2024, 20 members of that class are clerking in state and federal courts, including seven in federal district courts in the District of Columbia, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Our graduates are clerking at courts across the country, including:

  • Alexandria Circuit Court
  • Bankruptcy Court, Eastern North Carolina
  • Circuit Court for Carroll County, Maryland
  • Court of Appeals of Virginia
  • Delaware Superior Court
  • Fairfax County Circuit Court
  • Norfolk Circuit Court, 4th Judicial District (Virginia)
  • Northern District Court of Ohio
  • State Circuit Court, Cook County Judicial Circuit (Illinois)
  • Superior Court, Civil Division, Bergen County
  • Superior Court, Criminal Division, Bergen County
  • Supreme Court of Palau
  • U.S Bankruptcy Court- Western District of North Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
  • United States Court of Federal Claims
  • United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee
  • Western District of Texas - Del Rio Division

Government & Public Interest

  • ACUS Administrative Conference of the United States
  • Air Force Civilian Service
  • Albany Law School Immigration Law Clinic
  • Charlottesville Public Defender's Office
  • Colorado First Judicial District Attorney's Office
  • Committee for Public Counsel Services (Massachusetts)
  • Department of Justice, Tax Division, Civil Trial Section
  • Greater Chicago Legal Clinic
  • Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Office
  • Legal Aid of Western Michigan
  • Manhattan District Attorney
  • Maryland Office of the Public Defender
  • Monroe County Public Defender
  • Navy
  • Newport News Public Defender
  • North Carolina Statewide Defender, 38 District
  • Office of the State Attorney - Twentieth Judicial Circuit
  • Philadelphia District Attorney's Office
  • Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney
  • Prince William County Office of the Public Defender
  • Richmond County District Attorney's Office
  • Staunton Public Defender's Office
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Office of Chief Counsel
  • U.S. Army JAG Corps
  • U.S. Marine Corps
  • Virginia Indigent Defense Commission
  • West Virginia Public Defender Services, 13th Judicial District

Enrolled in Graduate School

  • University of Florida
  • NYU School of Professional Studies
  • Suffolk University

Business & Industry

  • AARP
  • Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
  • Kennedys
  • RiverStone Claims Management LLC
  • State Street

Geographic Locations

Graduates of the Class of 2024 have full-time employment in 23 states and territories. The top geographic areas for employment are:

  • Virginia
  • Washington D.C.
  • New York