CAREERS DONALD SHUM ’13 is an associate at Cooley in City; ALYSSA KUHN ’13 is clerking for Judge Joseph F. Bianco of the Eastern District of New York after working as an associate at Gibson Dunn in New York; and ZACH TORRES-FOWLER ’12 is an associate at Pepper in .

THE CAREER SERVICES PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW

is one of the most successful among national law VIRGINIA ENJOYS A REPUTATION FOR PRODUCING LAWYERS who master the schools and provides students with a wide range of job intellectual challenges of legal practice, and also contribute broadly to the institutions they join through strong leadership and interpersonal skills. opportunities across the nation and abroad. AS A RESULT, PRIVATE- AND PUBLIC-SECTOR EMPLOYERS HEAVILY RECRUIT VIRGINIA STUDENTS EACH YEAR. Graduates start their careers across the country with large and small law firms, government agencies and public interest groups.

ZACHARY REPRESENTATIVE RAY ’16 EMPLOYERS TAYLOR clerked for U.S. CLASSES OF 2015-17 STEFFAN ’15 District Judge clerked for Gershwin A. Judge Patrick Drain of the LOS ANGELES Higginbotham of Eastern District UNITED Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jones Day the 5th U.S. Circuit of Michigan STATES Dentons Jones Day Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Court of Appeals SARAH after law school, Howarth & Smith Reed Smith Morrison & Foerster in Austin, , PELHAM ’16 followed by a ALABAMA Latham & Watkins Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Orrick, Herrington & before returning is an associate clerkship with BIRMINGHAM Mercer Consulting Sullivan & Cromwell Sutcliffe to Washington, with Simpson Judge Roger L. REDWOOD CITY D.C., to work for Thacher & Gregory of the Bradley Arant Boult Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Perkins Coie Covington Bartlett in New 4th U.S. Circuit Cummings Morrison & Foerster Gunderson Dettmer Stough Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & & Burling. York City. Court of Appeals. Maynard, Cooper & Gale National Labor Relations Villeneuve Franklin & Sullivan MONTGOMERY Board, Region 21 Hachigian Reed Smith U.S. Air Force Judge O’Melveny & Myers REDWOOD SHORES Sedgwick WHERE OUR GRADUATES GO CLASSES OF 2015-17 Advocate General’s Corps Orrick, Herrington & Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & U.S. Army Judge Advocate Sutcliffe Sullivan General’s Corps TOP JOB LOCATIONS EMPLOYMENT TYPE PUBLIC CAMPUS RECRUITING ARKANSAS Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Weil, Gotshal & Manges SANTA BARBARA New York 225 Firm: 70% (668) INTEREST FALL 2017 LITTLE ROCK Pittman SACRAMENTO Office of the Santa Barbara District of Columbia 193 Clerkship: 17% (159) 23 federal government More than 675 offices Center for Arkansas Legal Public Counsel Law Center Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk County District Attorney Virginia 116 Public Interest: 11% (107) 48 state or local government Over 5,900 on-campus interviews Services Reed Smith California Department of California 81 Corporate: 3% (28) 28 public interest groups of second-year students LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE Sidley Austin Justice COLORADO Texas 62 Academic: .4% (4) 8 military BASE Sullivan & Cromwell Downey Brand ALAMOSA 24 FIRST-YEAR U.S. Air Force Judge White & Case SAN DIEGO Colorado Public Defender The Law School awarded 57 Powell CLERKSHIPS* SUMMER JOBS* Massachusetts 22 and Kennedy and Ruff fellowships Advocate General’s Corps MENLO PARK Cooley COLORADO SPRINGS (SUMMER 2017) 20 to graduates working for public 3 U.S. Supreme Court CLASS OF 2019 Goodwin Jones Day Fourth Judicial District Georgia 19 interest and nonprofit employers. 83 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal 26% federal government CALIFORNIA Latham & Watkins La Maestra Community Attorney’s Office Delaware 17 119 U.S. District Courts 25% firm COSTA MESA O’Melveny & Myers Health Centers DENVER 17 LAW FIRMS and other federal courts 15% academic Dorsey & Whitney MOUNTAIN VIEW Latham & Watkins Bryan Cave International (non-U.S.) 16 77% with firms in American 22 state courts 15% public interest groups Latham & Watkins Fenwick & West Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Colorado Public Defender Florida Lawyer’s top 100 by gross revenue *SOME ALUMNI CLERKED state or local government IRVINE OAKLAND 15 FOR MULTIPLE COURTS 11% Hampton Kilpatrick Townsend & Ohio 13 8% with firms ranked between 101-200 9% judicial Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Boies, Schiller & Flexner SAN FRANCISCO Stockton Colorado 11 3% with large international firms* 6% corporate Jones Day PALO ALTO Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Ogletree Deakins with smaller firms 11 12% *SEVERAL STUDENTS HELD Knobbe Martens Olson & Arnold & Porter Kaye Goodwin Sherman & Howard MULTIPLE POSITIONS *NOT RANKED BY AMERICAN LAWYER Bear Scholer Hogan Lovells CONTINUES NEXT PAGE REPRESENTATIVE EMPLOYERS CLASSES OF 2015-17 CONTINUED

CONNECTICUT O’Melveny & Myers Jones Day MISSISSIPPI Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Defender Bracewell Virginia Department of DANBURY Orrick, Herrington & King & Spalding JACKSON & Loewy Moore & Van Allen Jones Day Elections Chipman Mazzucco Sutcliffe Morris, Manning & Martin Burr & Forman Freshfields Bruckhaus Womble Carlyle Sandridge Latham & Watkins Williams Mullen HARTFORD Paul Hastings Nelson Mullins Riley & Deringer & Rice Mayer Brown TYSONS CORNER Day Pitney Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Scarborough MISSOURI Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Holland & Knight Robinson & Cole Wharton & Garrison Parker, Hudson, Rainer & JEFFERSON CITY & Jacobson OHIO Norton Rose Fulbright Womble Carlyle Sandridge Perkins Coie Dobbs Missouri Governor’s Office Gemini.com CINCINNATI Paul Hastings & Rice DELAWARE Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Troutman Sanders KANSAS CITY Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Frost Brown Todd Simpson Thacher & Bartlett WARRENTON WILMINGTON Pittman Midwest Innocence Project Goldman Sachs CLEVELAND Skadden, Arps, Slate, Fauquier County Abrams & Bayliss Powers Pyles Sutter & ILLINOIS Stinson Leonard Street Greenberg Traurig BakerHostetler Meagher & Flom Commonwealth’s Bayard Verville CHICAGO Houlihan Lokey Jones Day Vinson & Elkins Attorney’s Office Morris Nichols Arsht & Proskauer Rose Arnstein & Lehr MONTANA Hughes Hubbard & Reed Squire Patton Boggs WICHITA FALLS Tunnell Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Jenner & Block HELENA IBM COLUMBUS U.S. Air Force Judge WASHINGTON Potter Anderson & Corroon Sullivan Jones Day Crowley Fleck Jones Day BakerHostetler Advocate General’s Corps SEATTLE Richards Layton & Finger Reporters Committee for Kirkland & Ellis Uda Law Firm JPMorgan Chase & Co. Bracewell Skadden, Arps, Slate, Freedom of the Press Latham & Watkins Kasowitz Benson Torres & PENNSYLVANIA UTAH Lane Powell Meagher & Flom Saul Ewing Sidley Austin NEBRASKA Friedman HARRISBURG SALT LAKE CITY Oles Morrison Rinker & Young Conaway Stargatt & Shearman & Sterling Winston & Strawn GRAND ISLAND Katten Muchin Rosenman McNees Wallace & Nurick Holland & Hart Baker Taylor Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Leininger Smith Law Firm King & Spalding PHILADELPHIA Jones Waldo Hampton INDIANA OMAHA Kirkland & Ellis Community Legal Services of DISTRICT OF Sidley Austin INDIANAPOLIS Fidelity National Title Group Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Philadelphia VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL COLUMBIA Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Barnes & Thornburg Frankel Cozen O’Connor ARLINGTON Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Steptoe & Johnson NEVADA Latham & Watkins Dechert Arlington County BELGIUM & Feld Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein IOWA LAS VEGAS Linklaters Drinker Biddle & Reath Commonwealth’s BRUSSELS Arnold & Porter & Fox CEDAR RAPIDS Fox Rothschild Lowenstein Sandler Duane Morris Attorney’s Office Freshfields Bruckhaus AMBER Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider Sutherland Bradley & Riley Weinberg, Wheeler, Mayer Brown Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Erickson Immigration Group Deringer STRICKLAND ’17 is an assistant district Baker & McKenzie U.S. Army Corps of Hudgins, Gunn, and Dial Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Pepper Hamilton CHARLOTTESVILLE attorney in the New Baker Botts Engineers KENTUCKY McCloy Philadelphia District Charlottesville CHINA York County District Attorney’s Office. BakerHostetler U.S. Department of Justice LOUISVILLE NEW HAMPSHIRE Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Attorney’s Office Commonwealth’s PUDONG Beveridge & Diamond U.S. House of Bingham Greenebaum Doll CONCORD Moses & Singer PITTSBURGH Attorney’s Office Baker & McKenzie Blank Rome Representatives Judiciary New Hampshire Public New York County District Buchanan Ingersoll & Morin & Barkley SHANGHAI Boies, Schiller & Flexner Committee MARYLAND Defender Attorney’s Office Rooney Raynor Law Office Baker & McKenzie Bracewell U.S. Small Business Norton Rose Fulbright Jones Day Tremblay & Smith Jones Day Caplin & Drysdale Administration Duane Morris NEW JERSEY Office of the Comptroller of K&L Gates Vitt Law Offices SHENZHEN Cause of Action Institute Venable Maryland Legal Aid Bureau NORTHFIELD the Currency Zunka, Milnor & Carter Peking University School of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Vinson & Elkins Miles & Stockbridge Swift Law Firm Orrick, Herrington & SOUTH CAROLINA CULPEPER Transnational Law Hamilton Weil, Gotshal & Manges Venable PRINCETON Sutcliffe CHARLESTON Culpeper County Clifford Chance Weiner Brodsky Kider FORT MEADE Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Paul Hastings K&L Gates Commonwealth’s ENGLAND BRADLEY ALVAREZ ’16 Covington & Burling White & Case ROSELAND Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, GREENVILLE Attorney’s Office LONDON is an associate at Crowell & Moring Wiley Rein U.S. Department of Defense Lowenstein Sandler Wharton & Garrison Ogletree Deakins FAIRFAX Allen & Overy Latham & Watkins Davis Polk & Wardwell Williams & Connolly Proskauer Rose Blankingship & Keith Cerner in Menlo Park, California. Dechert Willkie Farr & Gallagher MASSACHUSETTS NEW YORK PwC SOUTH DAKOTA McCandlish & Lillard K&L Gates Dentons WilmerHale BOSTON ARMONK Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE FARMVILLE Latham & Watkins Federal Communications Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Choate, Hall & Stewart Boies, Schiller & Flexner Sullivan BASE Prince Edward County Linklaters Commission Rosati Cooley Reed Smith U.S. Air Force Judge Commonwealth’s Federal Trade Commission Winston & Strawn Fish & Richardson Kings County District Schulte Roth & Zabel Advocate General’s Corps Attorney’s Office JAPAN Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver Goodwin Attorney’s Office Seward & Kissel FORT PIERRE FORT LEE TOKYO & Jacobson FLORIDA K&L Gates BUFFALO Sidley Austin Mortenson Law Office U.S. Army Judge Advocate Morrison & Foerster Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher HURLBURT FIELD Latham & Watkins Hodgson Russ Simpson Thacher & Bartlett General’s Corps Groom Law Group U.S. Air Force Judge Morgan, Lewis & Bockius NEW YORK Skadden, Arps, Slate, TENNESSEE HENRICO SOUTH KOREA Harris Wiltshire & Grannis Advocate General’s Corps Nutter McClennen & Fish Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Meagher & Flom MEMPHIS Henrico County SEOUL Hogan Lovells JACKSONVILLE Proskauer Rose & Feld Stroock & Stroock & Lavan Butler Snow O’Mara Stevens Commonwealth’s LG Electronics Hollingsworth Fidelity National Title Group Ropes & Gray Allen & Overy Sullivan & Cromwell & Cannada Attorney’s Office Shin & Kim Hughes Hubbard & Reed Foley & Lardner Skadden, Arps, Slate, Arnold & Porter Kaye Troutman Sanders MURFREESBORO HERNDON Internal Revenue Service MIAMI Meagher & Flom Scholer Vinson & Elkins Gogo Industries ePlus Jones Day White & Case WilmerHale Baker & McKenzie Weil, Gotshal & Manges McLean K&L Gates ORLANDO Bank of America Merrill White & Case TEXAS Hogan Lovells Keller and Heckman Burr & Forman MICHIGAN Lynch Willkie Farr & Gallagher AUSTIN NORFOLK King & Spalding Foley & Lardner DEARBORN Bracewell WilmerHale Jackson Walker Crenshaw, Ware & Martin Kirkland & Ellis Office of the State Attorney, Ford Motor Co. Bryan Cave Wilmington Trust McKool Smith Willcox & Savage Knobbe Martens Olson & Ninth Judicial Circuit DETROIT Cadwalader, Wickersham Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch QUANTICO Bear SARASOTA Dickinson Wright & Taft ROCHESTER Akin Gump Strauss Hauer U.S. Department of Defense NOTE: SOME FIRMS’ Latham & Watkins Williams Parker Harrison Sachs Waldman Cahill, Gordon & Reindel Boylan Code & Feld RESTON NAMES HAVE CHANGED SINCE GRADUATES Liles Parker Dietz & Getzen LANSING Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Nixon Peabody Andrews Kurth Cooley WERE HIRED. Linklaters TAMPA Michigan Department of Hamilton Thomas & Solomon Baker Botts Thompson Hospitality Mayer Brown Phelps Dunbar Attorney General Clifford Chance Haynes and Boone RICHMOND McDermott Will & Emery WEST PALM BEACH Covington & Burling NORTH CAROLINA Jackson Walker Hirschler Fleischer Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Carlton Fields Jorden Burt MINNESOTA Cravath, Swaine & Moore CHARLOTTE Jones Day Hunton & Williams McCloy MAPLE PLAIN Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt Bradley Arant Boult K&L Gates Legal Aid Justice Center Morgan, Lewis & Bockius GEORGIA Sherman and Patterson & Mosle Cummings Locke Lord McGuireWoods Morrison & Foerster ATLANTA MINNEAPOLIS Davis Polk & Wardwell Cadwalader, Wickersham PwC Richmond Commonwealth’s Norton Rose Fulbright Alston & Bird Faegre Baker Daniels Debevoise & Plimpton & Taft Sidley Austin Attorney’s Office Office of the Attorney Bryan Cave Maslon Dechert K&L Gates Winstead Vinson & Elkins General for the District of Dentons Dentons McGuireWoods HOUSTON Virginia Commonwealth Columbia Eversheds Sutherland Foley & Lardner Mecklenburg County Public Baker Botts University Health System THE OFFICE OF CAREER SERVICES, the JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS OFFICE and the MORTIMER CAPLIN PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER offer the tools and preparation students need to advance in PROVIDING the legal workforce. WHAT YOU NEED SERVICES INCLUDE: TO LAUNCH COUNSELING STUDENTS on job-search strategies, from understanding which employers to target to planning long-term career goals

PREPARING AND TRAINING STUDENTS to have successful interviews, including through YOUR live or videotaped mock interviews, to assess weaknesses and strengths REVIEWING AND CRITIQUING RESUMES, cover letters and other employment-related CAREER communications

SCHEDULING EVENTS throughout the school year that are designed to inform students about a variety of career paths and employment options, best practices for interviews and internships, and how to advance one’s career after law school

HELPING STUDENTS UNDERSTAND what kinds of careers they will find rewarding

TEACHING STUDENTS best networking practices

MAINTAINING AN ONLINE JOB DATABASE that also allows students to receive alerts about jobs in their chosen field or city

COORDINATING THE SCHOOL’S INVOLVEMENT in career fairs and recruiting events across the country, in addition to the Law School’s extensive on-campus recruiting efforts

“WE TEAM UP WITH THE STUDENTS ON ALL PARTS OF THEIR JOB SEARCH. We guide students in identifying employment options that will be personally and professionally fulfilling, work with them on their resumes and cover letters, assist them in preparing for interviews and then educate them on skills that will aid them in the workplace.” —KEVIN DONOVAN, Senior Assistant Dean for Career Services VIRGINIA’S CAREER COUNSELORS: EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN PRIVATE PRACTICE, IN PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERING AND IN CLERKSHIPS.

OFFICE OFFICE MORTIMER PRO BONO EXTERNSHIPS OF OF CAPLIN PROGRAM CAREER JUDICIAL PUBLIC SERVICES CLERKSHIPS SERVICE CENTER

KEVIN DONOVAN MARIT R. SLAUGHTER ELIZABETH L. KADE LAUREN PARKER LAUREN K. VENTRE RUTH PAYNE ANNIE KIM W. LAWTON TUFTS AMANDA YALE KIMBERLY EMERY A. SPRIGHTLEY RYAN

SENIOR ASSISTANT DEAN SENIOR DIRECTOR OF LAW DIRECTOR OF CAREER DIRECTOR OF CAREER DIRECTOR OF CAREER SENIOR DIRECTOR OF ASSISTANT DEAN FOR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC ASSISTANT DEAN PROFESSOR OF LAW, FOR CAREER SERVICES FIRM RECRUITING SERVICES SERVICES SERVICES JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS PUBLIC SERVICE SERVICE AND ALUMNI SERVICE FOR PRO BONO GENERAL FACULTY ADVISING AND PUBLIC INTEREST J.D., UNIVERSITY OF J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF J.D., UNIVERSITY OF J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF J.D., UNIVERSITY OF DIRECTOR, MORTIMER J.D., NORTHEASTERN DIRECTOR OF PENNSYLVANIA VIRGINIA VIRGINIA VIRGINIA VIRGINIA VIRGINIA CAPLIN PUBLIC SERVICE J.D., WILLIAM & MARY UNIVERSITY EXTERNSHIPS CENTER MARSHALL-WYTHE J.D., UNIVERSITY OF SCHOOL OF LAW VIRGINIA B.A., DARTMOUTH B.A., COLLEGE OF B.A., CLAREMONT B.A., COLGATE J.D., UNIVERSITY OF COLLEGE Marit Slaughter WILLIAM & MARY Lauren Parker works Lauren Ventre MCKENNA COLLEGE J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA AT VIRGINIA B.S., B.A., CARLETON BERKELEY counsels students and with students and connects students UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Kevin Donovan leads alumni on a broad Elizabeth Kade counsels alumni interested and alumni with Ruth Payne advises MFA, CREATIVE WRITING, Amanda Yale previously B.A., YALE UNIVERSITY WARREN WILSON the Office of Career array of career choices students and alumni in applying to law private-sector positions students and alumni COLLEGE W. Lawton Tufts worked at Legal Kimberly Emery Services and counsels with a focus on law on a range of career firm positions. With within their areas of as they navigate the previously worked Services for Children in has been the Law Sprightley Ryan students and alumni on firm positions. She choices with a focus nearly eight years of interest and assists application process Annie Kim leads the as an assistant public , where School’s assistant directs the externships general career choices works with students to on law firm positions. experience litigating at them in formulating for both judicial Mortimer Caplin Public defender for the she defended the rights dean for pro bono program at Virginia and on pursuing posi- evaluate practice areas, Before joining the Office a large firm, she helps application documents internships and judicial Service Center, through Charlottesville- of indigent disabled since 2004, and was a Law. Externships allow tions with law firms. Be- firms and legal markets, of Career Services, students identify firms and strategies. Prior clerkships. This which she counsels Albemarle Public children in special founder and director students to work full- fore joining the school and helps students Kade was a trial and practice areas of to joining the Career includes counseling, students seeking Defender’s Office, education and Social of the Mortimer Caplin time or part-time doing in 2009, Donovan was and alumni develop attorney at the Federal interest, and assists Services team in 2014, reviewing cover public-interest jobs where he represented Security disability Public Service Center. legal work for public a litigation partner in strategies to compete Programs Branch in their preparation of Ventre worked at letters and resumes, and fellowships, invites hundreds of indigent benefits proceedings. Emery coordinates service employers the Philadelphia office effectively for the the Civil Division of effective resumes, cover the Pension Benefit conducting mock speakers to discuss defendants in After graduating from and administers pro while earning academic of Morgan Lewis & positions they target. the Department of letters and interview Guaranty Corporation interviews and running careers in public service misdemeanor and law school, she worked bono programming for credit. As director, Ryan Bockius, where his Slaughter previously Justice for three years. strategies. Parker also in Washington, D.C., workshops on the and coordinates numer- felony trials. as a staff attorney at law students, counsels counsels students who practice focused on was an associate in While at the DOJ, she counsels LL.M. students and, more recently, clerkship process. ous other activities that As a law student, the 2nd U.S. Circuit students and graduates are in the program or complex tort litigation, the New York office recruited for and ran seeking temporary or in the undergraduate Payne was an articles support public service Tufts served on the Court of Appeals. She regarding pro bono who are considering including class actions of Willkie Farr & her office’s legal intern permanent employment University Career editor on the Virginia at the Law School. After boards of the Public then clerked for Judge and public interest an externship, and and national serial liti- Gallagher, where she program and was a after graduation, and Services office. In that Law Review. After law graduating from the Service Fund and I. Leo Glasser in the opportunities, develops advises them on gation. While at Morgan focused on private founding board member assists with employer role, she managed school, she clerked Law School in 1999, she Lawyers Helping U.S. District Court for and fund-raises for selecting an employer. Lewis, he was the firm’s equity/venture capital for the Recruitment outreach. the on-Grounds for Judge J. Harvie practiced commercial Lawyers, and worked as the Eastern District of new service projects, Ryan also teaches a pro bono chair from transactions, mergers and Retention Group Prior to joining interviewing program Wilkinson III on and school litigation at a summer intern at both New York. and oversees the Law seminar to students in 2003-08, was heavily and acquisitions, and of DOJ’s Gender the Office of Career and recruiter relations. the 4th U.S. Circuit the McLean office of the Charlottesville and School’s Pro Bono the UVA Law in DC involved in recruiting other corporate and Equality Network. Services, Parker was a Ventre is a member Court of Appeals and Hunton & Williams and Fredericksburg public Challenge. Under externship program and participated in securities matters. Kade’s practice focused senior associate in the of the Virginia State Bar completed a one-year later worked at a small defender’s offices. After Emery’s direction, the that helps participants running three summer She also served as on high-profile civil Washington, D.C., office and a 2012 graduate Bristow Fellowship firm in Alexandria. graduation, he litigated Pro Bono Program in a make connections associate programs. Af- a member of the litigation defending of Orrick, Herrington of the Law School, with the U.S. Solicitor Starting in 2002, Kim criminal and family law typical year coordinates between legal theory ter law school, Donovan firm’s Professional challenges to federal & Sutcliffe. At Orrick, where she served on the General’s Office. From served as in-house cases at a small firm in pro bono projects and practice. Ryan clerked for U.S. District Personnel/Legal statutes, regulations she was a member of editorial board of the 2004-08, she was an counsel for Virginia western Virginia. He with more than 100 previously served Judge Frank J. Battisti Recruiting, Professional and agency actions, the firm’s Antitrust and Virginia Law Review honors attorney with local governments for also was a guardian ad employers nationwide, as inspector general in the Northern District Development and including administrative Competition group, and was elected to the the Criminal Division nine years, working on litem for children. from work with full- of the Smithsonian of Ohio. Following his Marketing committees. law, constitutional where her practice Order of the Coif. of the Department everything from civil Tufts serves on the time public interest Institution, worked clerkship he joined In law school at UVA, law and employment focused on complex of Justice, where she rights and employment board of directors for lawyers to pro bono for the Environmental Morgan Lewis and she was a member of discrimination cases. commercial and worked in the Office of law cases to represent- the OAR-Jefferson efforts undertaken by Crimes Section of became a partner in the editorial board of Prior to the DOJ, antitrust litigation in International Affairs. ing schools, police and Area Community private practitioners. the U.S. Department 2000. In 2016, Donovan the Journal of Law Kade was an associate state and federal courts, other local government Corrections program Emery was a board of Justice as a trial received a Leonard W. & Politics, First Year in the Washington, and in investigations by departments. She won and is a member of member for the Legal attorney, and served as Sandridge Outstanding Council and Virginia D.C., office of Vinson & the U.S. Department of her first case before the the Thomas Jefferson Aid Justice Center for a special assistant U.S. Contribution Award, Law Women. Elkins for three years. Justice, the U.S. Federal 4th U.S. Circuit Court Inn of Court and more than 15 years and attorney with the U.S. UVA’s highest honor for She served on the Trade Commission of Appeals in 2012, her the Charlottesville was recognized in 2000 Attorney’s Office for the staff, for his effective- office’s on-Grounds and the European final case arguing on Albemarle Bar as the organization’s District of Columbia. ness in job placement recruiting teams for the Commission. Parker behalf of Albemarle Association. Volunteer of the Year. and dedication to the University of Virginia also worked with the County. students he serves. and Georgetown; she ACLU of Maryland also was involved in and with the Legal the firm’s Women’s Counsel for the Elderly Initiative. representing clients in diverse pro bono matters. U.S. TAX COURT MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA DELAWARE SUPERIOR JUDICIAL Carolyn P. Chiechi EASTERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DISTRICT OF COURT Richard T. Morrison MICHIGAN DAYTON VIRGINIA DOVER CLERKSHIPS DETROIT Guy R. Humphrey ALEXANDRIA Jeffrey J. Clark FLORIDA Gershwin A. Drain John F. Anderson NORTHERN DISTRICT OF WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA DISTRICT OF CLASSES OF 2015-17 Leonie M. Brinkema FLORIDA MICHIGAN NORTHERN DISTRICT OF James C. Cacheris COLUMBIA PENSACOLA GRAND RAPIDS OKLAHOMA T. S. Ellis III D.C. COURT OF APPEALS U.S. TAMPA, FLA. Margaret C. Rodgers Gordon J. Quist TULSA Liam O’Grady Catharine F. Easterly SUPREME Edith H. Jones Charles R. Wilson SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF Gregory K. Frizzel NORFOLK Senior Judges COURT Jerry E. Smith FLORIDA MISSISSIPPI Arenda Wright Allen D.C. SUPERIOR COURT JACKSON, MISS. FEDERAL MIAMI SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OREGON Robert G. Doumar Hiram E. Puig-Lugo Samuel Alito Rhesa H. Barksdale DISTRICT Kathleen M. Williams MISSISSIPPI DISTRICT OF OREGON Rebecca Beach Smith Robert A. Salerno Stephen G. Breyer Leslie H. Southwick COURTS WEST PALM BEACH HATTIESBURG PORTLAND Stephen C. St. John Anthony M. Kennedy Donald M. Middlebrooks Keith Starrett Michael W. Mosman RICHMOND HAWAII John G. Roberts 6TH CIRCUIT ALABAMA JACKSON John A. Gibney Jr. HAWAII SUPREME COURT Antonin Scalia ANN ARBOR, MICH. NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA Daniel P. Jordan III PENNSYLVANIA Henry E. Hudson HONOLULU Clarence Thomas Raymond M. Kethledge ALABAMA NORTHERN DISTRICT OF EASTERN DISTRICT OF Kevin R. Huennekens Michael D. Wilson CLEVELAND BIRMINGHAM GEORGIA MISSOURI PENNSYLVANIA Robert E. Payne U.S. CIRCUIT Virginia Emerson Hopkins ATLANTA WESTERN DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA WESTERN DISTRICT OF MARYLAND COURTS COLUMBUS, OHIO Staff Clerkship William S. Duffey Jr. MISSOURI Legrome D. Davis VIRGINIA MARYLAND COURT OF OF APPEAL R. Guy Cole Jr. Thomas W. Thrash Jr. KANSAS CITY J. Curtis Joyner ABINGDON SPECIAL APPEALS Jeffrey S. Sutton ARIZONA Stephen R. Bough Gerald J. Pappert James P. Jones ANNAPOLIS D.C. CIRCUIT DETROIT, MICH. DISTRICT OF ARIZONA ILLINOIS Berle M. Schiller DANVILLE Donald E. Beachley WASHINGTON, D.C. Eric L. Clay PHOENIX NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEVADA MIDDLE DISTRICT OF Jackson L. Kiser Peter B. Krauser OLLIE Thomas B. Griffith Helene N. White John J. Tuchi ILLINOIS DISTRICT OF NEVADA PENNSYLVANIA LYNCHBURG BALTIMORE CITY CIRCUIT ENGEBRETSON ’17 Karen LeCraft Henderson LANSING, MICH. CHICAGO LAS VEGAS WILKES-BARRE Norman K. Moon COURT clerked for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer ROANOKE BALTIMORE Judith W. Rogers Richard F. Suhrheinrich ARKANSAS Virginia M. Kendall Cam Ferenbach A. Richard Caputo of the U.S. Court Robert L. Wilkins LEXINGTON, KY. EASTERN DISTRICT OF Manish S. Shah RENO Robert S. Ballou W. Michel Pierson of Appeals for the John M. Rogers ARKANSAS Howard D. McKibben PUERTO RICO Michael F. Urbanski Fourth Circuit after law school. FEDERAL CIRCUIT LONDON, KY. LITTLE ROCK INDIANA DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO MINNESOTA WASHINGTON, D.C. Eugene E. Siler Jr. Kristine G. Baker NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY HATO REY WASHINGTON MINNESOTA SUPREME Raymond T. Chen LOUISVILLE, KY. INDIANA DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY Bruce J. McGiverin WESTERN DISTRICT OF COURT Todd M. Hughes Danny J. Boggs CALIFORNIA HAMMOND NEWARK WASHINGTON ST. PAUL Alan D. Lourie Amul R. Thapar CENTRAL DISTRICT OF John E. Martin Cathy L. Waldor SOUTH CAROLINA SEATTLE David R. Stras Kimberly A. Moore MEDINA, OHIO CALIFORNIA DISTRICT OF SOUTH James L. Robart Alvin A. Schall Alice M. Batchelder LOS ANGELES IOWA NEW MEXICO CAROLINA MISSISSIPPI MEMPHIS, TENN. Andre Birotte Jr. SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO COLUMBIA WEST VIRGINIA MISSISSIPPI SUPREME 2ND CIRCUIT Karen L. Stevenson IOWA ALBUQUERQUE Mary Geiger Lewis SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF COURT NEW YORK EASTERN DISTRICT OF DES MOINES James O. Browning GREENVILLE WEST VIRGINIA JACKSON SEJAL JHAVERI ’15 CALIFORNIA James E. Gritzner Henry M. Herlong Jr. BECKLEY Josiah Dennis Coleman followed her Robert A. Katzmann 8TH CIRCUIT FRESNO NEW YORK Irene C. Berger clerkship with Pierre N. Leval LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Dale A. Drozd KENTUCKY EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW TENNESSEE CHARLESTON NEW JERSEY U.S. Judge John A. Robert D. Sack Lavenski R. Smith NORTHERN DISTRICT OF WESTERN DISTRICT OF YORK EASTERN DISTRICT OF Thomas E. Johnston NEW JERSEY SUPREME Gibney of the Eastern District of Virginia ST. LOUIS CALIFORNIA KENTUCKY NEW YORK TENNESSEE COURT in Richmond with a 3RD CIRCUIT Raymond W. Gruender SAN JOSE LOUISVILLE William Francis Kuntz II KNOXVILLE STATE CHERRY HILL clerkship for Chief DUNCANSVILLE, PA. Beth Labson Freeman David J. Hale SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF Pamela L. Reeves COURTS Lee A. Solomon Judge R. Guy Cole Jr. D. Brooks Smith 9TH CIRCUIT Lucy H. Koh Charles R. Simpson III NEW YORK Thomas A. Varlan NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in SCRANTON, PA. EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. NEW YORK WESTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA COURT Columbus, Ohio. Thomas Vanaskie Milan D. Smith Jr. CONNECTICUT LOUISIANA Alison J. Nathan TENNESSEE CALIFORNIA COURTS OF ELIZABETH WILMINGTON, DEL. 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VIRGINIA has graduates in all 100 of the American Lawyer VIRGINIA is top 100 firms third in the (as of May 2018). number of 2017 graduates VIRGINIA with jobs ranked at law firms second in of 100 or more the number attorneys, of alumni by percentage, leading the according nation’s top to American 100 firms, Bar Association according to an Above the data. Law report. VIRGINIA ranked VIRGINIA is fourth second after in the number Harvard of partners in the in the number National Law Journal’s of chief legal officers top 500 firms, at the nation’s top according to 500 companies, Legal Compass according to a (June 2018). 2014 study.

VIRGINIA is VIRGINIA is second in fourth in placing Above the Law’s clerks on the U.S. 2018 law Supreme Court school from 2005-18, rankings, behind which Harvard, Yale focus on and Stanford. employment outcomes.

Hands-On Preparation for Your Career CURRICULUM CLINICS ADVOCACY Virginia has a curricular Students gain experience COMPETITIONS concentration in litigation and representing real clients in About 80 students hone their CAREERS procedure, which includes an trials and hearings, writing oral argument and brief- array of courses in trial motions and briefs for trial and writing skills each year in UVA advocacy, oral advocacy and appellate courts (including the Law’s annual William Minor law.virginia.edu/career CONTACT public speaking. Virginia also U.S. Supreme Court), and Lile Moot Court competition. Kevin Donovan (Career Services) (434) 982-6119 hosts an annual Trial Advocacy counseling corporate clients. The Law School also has an [email protected] College, which attracts lawyers Extramural Moot Court Annie Kim (Public Service) OUR 20 CLINICS INCLUDE: (434) 924-3883 from across the country and is Advocacy Team that competes [email protected] open to Virginia Law students. Appellate Litigation across the country. Additionally, Ruth Payne (Clerkships) (434) 924-7192 Criminal Defense students participate each year [email protected] Employment Law in the Philip C. Jessup EXTERNSHIPS Entrepreneurial Law International Moot Court Students in Virginia’s Environmental and Regulatory Law Competition. Team members externship program work in Litigation and Housing Law have advanced to the legal offices across the country Nonprofit international round in five of for a semester or part-time. Patent and Licensing I and II the last eight years. Prosecution Supreme Court Litigation