Careers & Employment - Class of 2021
91% of 2020 grads were employed in bar admission or JD Advantage positions.
Job Type:
Law Firm – 60%
Business – 12%
Government – 8%
Public Interest – 13%
Education – 2%
Clerkships – 5%
J.D. Class Profile
J.D. Class of 2025
As of the first day of Classes
Total Applications Received: 4,069
First-Year Students: 392
LEOP Students: 75
California Scholars: 2
Average Scholarship Awarded: $15,400
Colleges & Universities Represented: 120
Top 7:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
GPA: 3.75 | 3.59 | 3.39
LSAT: 163 | 160 | 157
Enrolled with GRE: 8
Average Age: 25
Age Range: 20-42
0-3 years out of college: 64%
At least 4 years out of college: 36%
234 Women | 154 Men | 5 Non-Binary
Students of Color: 54%
First Generation College Students: 19%
Veterans: 16
States Represented: 20
Different Undergrad Majors: 63
(Most popular: Political Science)
STEM Majors: 7%
Advanced Degrees: 6%
Sample of Undergrad Institutions (Class of 2025)
| American University | Mills College | University of California - Riverside |
| Arizona State University | Northern Arizona University | University of California - San Diego |
| Azusa Pacific University | New York University | University of California - Santa Barbara |
| Bard College | Oberlin College | University of California - Santa Cruz |
| Barnard College | Occidental College | University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| Baylor University | Ohio State University | University Of Houston |
| Boston College | Pitzer College | University of Massachusetts - Amherst |
| Boston University | Portland State University | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
| Brown University | Reed College | University of Minnesota - Minneapolis |
| Bryn Mawr College | Rutgers University | University of Missouri - Columbia |
| California State University - Fullerton | Saint Mary's College of California | University of Nevada - Las Vegas |
| California State University - Long Beach | San Diego State University | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
| California State University - Northridge | San Francisco State University | University Of Oregon |
| California State University - Sacramento | San Jose State University | University of Puget Sound |
| Chapman University | Santa Clara University | University Of Redlands |
| Claremont Mckenna College | Seattle University | University Of Rochester |
| California Institute of the Arts | Smith College | University of San Diego |
| Cornell University | Stanford University | University of San Francisco |
| Dartmouth College | Swarthmore College | University of Southern California |
| George Washington University | Syracuse University | University of the Pacific |
| Georgetown University | University of Texas at Austin | University Of Virginia |
| Gonzaga University | Tufts University | University Of Washington |
| Hampton University | Tulane University | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Haverford College | United States Coast Guard Academy | Vassar College |
| Howard University | United States Military Academy | Villanova University |
| Indiana University | University of California - Merced | Walla Walla University |
| Kenyon College | University of California - Berkeley | Washington University |
| Lewis and Clark College | University of California - Davis | Wellesley College |
| Loyola Marymount University | University of California - Irvine | Wesleyan University |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | University of California - Los Angeles | Whitman College |
Sample of Employers for the Class of 2021
| Alameda County District Attorney's Office | Glassdoor | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Alameda County Public Defender | Goodwin Procter LLP | Pearl Law Group |
| Alaska Supreme Court | Hanson Bridgett | Perkins Coie LLP |
| Aleshire & Wynder, LLP | Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP | Port of San Francisco |
| Align Technology | Holland & Knight | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
| Andersen Tax | Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc. | Reed Smith LLP |
| Arnold & Porter LLP | Ingensity IP | Sacks, Ricketts & Case, LLP |
| Baker Botts L.L.P. | International Finance Corp- World Bank Group | San Diego County Public Defender |
| Bassi, Edlin, Huie & Blum, LLP | Jackson & Hertogs | San Francisco Public Defender |
| Bay Area Criminal Lawyers, PC | Jackson Lewis | San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office |
| Bay Area Legal Aid | Judicial Council of California | San Mateo County District Attorney |
| California Attorney General | Kern Segal & Murray | Santa Cruz County Public Defender |
| Center for Biological Diversity | Kirkland & Ellis LLP | Santiago Law Group |
| Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | Kirschenbaum Law Corporation | Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner |
| Children’s Law Center of California | Legal Aid At Work | Seyfarth Shaw LLP |
| Colorado State Public Defender | Legal Assistance to the Elderly | SF Immigration Court (DOJ Honors Program) |
| Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto | Liftoff Mobile | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
| Contra Costa Senior Legal Services | Littler Mendelson | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP |
| Deloitte LLP | Lowenstein Sandler PC | Solano County District Attorney's Office |
| East Bay Community Law Center | Marin County District Attorney | Tulare County District Attorney |
| Eisner LLP | Miami-Dade Public Defender's Office | U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | Montgomery & Hansen LLP | U.S. Bankruptcy Court |
| Ernst & Young | Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP | U.S. District Court |
| Family & Children’s Law Center | Morrill Law | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Farella Braun + Martel LLP | Morrison & Foerster LLP | United States Navy JAG Corps |
| For The People | New York County Defender | United States Patent and Trademark Office |
| Franzini Law, P.L.L.C. | New York County District Attorney's Office | Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger |
| Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP | Office of County Counsel, County of Alameda | White & Case LLP |
| Fresno County Public Defender | O'Melveny & Myers LLP | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
| Gilead Sciences, Inc. | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) |