Judicial Clerkship Employment

YLS students and alumni accept clerkships at a variety of times. Many students accept one or more clerkships in the third year of law school and commence those clerkships either immediately after graduation or in some later year. Some of these students will apply for and accept a second (or sometimes third) clerkship as alumni. Other students forego the clerkship process as students and wait until after graduation to pursue clerkships. The statistics in this chart reflect:

1. the percent of graduates who worked as a judicial clerk in their first job after graduation;
2. the percent of graduates obtaining one or more clerkships at any time;
3. the total number of clerkships obtained by graduates.

This chart includes information reported to CDO as of August 28, 2012.

Clerkship	Class of 2007	Class of 2008	Class of 2009	Class of 2010	Class of 2011
Percent of Employed Graduates Reporting a Clerkship as First Job after Graduation1	41.4%	35.1%	30.6%	36.3%	38.6%
Percent of Graduates Reporting One or More Clerkships at Any Time2	54%	49%	44%	49%	40%
Total Number of Clerkships Obtained by Graduates	129	122	115	124	116

¹ Percentages based on total number of employed graduates.
² Percentages based on total number of graduates.