Careers & Employment - Class of 2019
87% of 2019 grads were employed in bar admission or JD Advantage positions.
Job Type:
Law Firm – 53%
Business – 13%
Government – 10%
Public Interest – 16%
Education – 1%
Clerkships – 7%
J.D. Class Profile
J.D. Class of 2023
As of the first day of classes
Total Applications Received: 3,319
First-Year Students: 386
LEOP Students: 67
California Scholars: 5
Average Scholarship Awarded: $18,215
Colleges & Universities Represented: 117
Top 7:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
UC San Diego and USC (tie)
GPA: 3.61 | 3.42 | 3.22
LSAT: 161 | 158 | 155
Enrolled with GRE: 15
Average Age: 25
Age Range: 20-52
0-3 years out of college: 69%
At least 4 years out of college: 31%
235 Women | 148 Men | 3 Non-Binary
Students of Color: 52%
First Generation College Students: 19%
Veterans: 5
States Represented: 15 + D.C.
Different Undergrad Majors: 48
(Most popular: Political Science and English)
STEM Majors: 10%
Advanced Degrees: 10%
Full List of Undergraduate Institutions
| Alcorn State University | Humboldt State University | Stanford University |
| Amherst College | Johns Hopkins University | Swarthmore College |
| Arizona State University | Kansas State University | Syracuse University |
| Bard College | Kenyon College | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Barnard College | Korea University | Thomas Aquinas College |
| Bates College | Lewis and Clark College | Tulane University |
| Baylor University | Loyola Marymount University | University of Alabama |
| Benedictine College | Loyola University Maryland | University of Arizona |
| Boston College | McGill University | University of California - Merced |
| Boston University | Mills College | University of California - Berkeley |
| Bucknell University | Missouri Southern State University | University of California - Davis |
| Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | Mount Holyoke College | University of California - Irvine |
| California Luteran University | North China University of Technology | University of California - Los Angeles |
| CSU Monterey Bay | Northeastern University | University of California - Riverside |
| CSU Chico | Northwestern University | University of California - San Diego |
| CSU Fresno | Notre Dame de Namur University | University of California - Santa Barbara |
| CSU Fullerton | New York University | University of California - Santa Cruz |
| CSU Long Beach | Occidental College | University of Colorado - Boulder |
| CSU Northridge | Oregon State University | University of Connecticut - Storrs |
| CSU Sacramento | Pacific Northwest College of Art | University of Houston |
| CSU Stanislaus | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | University of Illinois - Urbana |
| CSU San Bernardino | Pitzer College | University of La Verne |
| CSU San Diego | Point Loma Nazarene University | University of Maryland - College Park |
| CSU San Francisco | Purchase College, State University of New York | University of Miami |
| CSU San Jose | Queen's University | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
| Case Western Reserve University | Radford University | University of Oregon |
| Chapman University | Reed College | University of Pennsylvania |
| Colgate University | Rice University | University of Portland |
| Columbia University | Rutgers University | University of Puget Sound |
| Cornell University | Saint Mary's College of California | University of Redlands |
| Dankook University - Seoul | Santa Clara University | University of San Diego |
| Dillard University | Scripps College | University of San Francisco |
| Emporia State University | Shanghai Jiaotong University | University of Southern California |
| Fordham University | Smith College | University of the Pacific |
| George Washington University | Sonoma State University | University of Washington |
| Georgetown University | Southern Methodist University | Washington University |
| Gonzaga University | Spelman College | Wellesley College |
| Hawaii Pacific University | St. Mary's College of Maryland | West Begal University of Technology |
| Howard University | William Smith College |
Sample of Employers for the Class of 2019
| 23andMe, Inc. | Fenwick & West LLP | Nauto |
| Alameda County District Attorney’s Office | Fisher & Phillips LLP | Nevada Supreme Court |
| Alameda County Public Defender | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP | Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Sullivan LLP |
| Align Technology | Goodwin | Nixon Peabody LLP |
| Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, LLP | Gordon & Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP | Office of the County Counsel, County of Alameda |
| Andersen Tax LLC | Gunderson Dettmer | Office of the Sonoma County Counsel |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus | Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli & Brewer | O’Melveny & Myers LLP |
| Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach | Hawaii Supreme Court, Associate Justice Paula Nakayama | Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo | Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Baker Botts L.L.P. | Holland & Knight | Perkins Coie LLP |
| Bay Area Legal Aid | U.S. District Court – Northern District of California | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
| Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP | Honeywell Aerospace | Ragghianti Freitas LLP |
| Best Best & Krieger LLP | Hoyer & Hicks | Reed Smith LLP |
| Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP | Hunton Andrews Kurth | Richards, Watson & Gershon |
| Bursor & Fisher, P.A. | Immigrant Defenders Law Center | Riverside District Attorney’s Office |
| California Department of Justice, | Jones Day | Sacramento County District Attorney |
| California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. | Judge Marsha Berzon | San Bernardino County Public Defender |
| Center for Biological Diversity | Keller Heckman | San Diego City Attorney |
| Center for Food Safety | Kessenick Gamma & Free LLP | San Diego County District Attorney’s Office |
| Children’s Law Center of California | King and Wood | San Diego County Public Defender |
| City of Oakland, Office of the City Attorney | Klarity Law | San Francisco District Attorney’s Office |
| Claery and Hammond, LLP | KPMG LLP | San Francisco Human Rights Commission |
| Clark Hill | Latham & Watkins | San Francisco Public Defender |
| Cole-Frieman & Mallon | Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | San Francisco Superior Court |
| Collins Collins Muir + Stewart, LLP | Legal Aid Society | San Mateo County District Attorney |
| Colorado State Public Defender | Legal Services for Children | San Mateo County Superior Court Family Law Division |
| Community Water Center | Legal Services of Northern California | Santa Clara County Public Defender |
| Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office | Lexington Law Group | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
| Contra Costa County Public Defender | Littler Mendelson | Solano County Office of the Public Defender |
| Cooley LLP | Los Angeles County Public Defender | State of Hawaii, Second Circuit |
| Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy | Lowenstein Sandler PC | State Water Resources Control Board |
| Counsel LLP | Magistrate Judge Robert M. Illman | Swords To Plowshares |
| Crowell & Moring LLP | Marin Clean Energy | The Hassell Law Group, a P.C. |
| Crowley Fleck | Marin County Public Defender | The Honorable James Donato |
| Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | Mayer Brown LLP | Transgender, Gender-Variant, Intersex Justice Project |
| Deloitte LLP | McNamara, Ney, Beatty, Slattery, Borges & Ambacher LLP | Troutman Sanders LLP |
| Donaldson and Callif LLP | Merino Yebri LLP | U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Northern District of California |
| Dreyer, Babich, Buccola, Callaham, Wood & Campora LLP | Meyers Nave | U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida |
| EarthRights International | Mississippi Rising Coalition | UCSF Industry Contracts |
| Embark Trucks | Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP | Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger |
| Ernst & Young | Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney | Washington State Court of Appeals |
| Farella Braun + Martel LLP | Napa County District Attorney | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |