Law Career Services
Employment Statistics
In 2006, 95.2% of the graduating class reported employment within nine months of graduation, an excellent record in a competitive legal market.
In 2006, average salaries in private practice reached $76,305. The range of yearly starting salaries in private practice was $24,000 to $150,000. In recent years, the following firms and agencies, among others, have visited DePaul to recruit students and recent graduates:
- Arnstein & Lehr
- Banner & Witcoff
- Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLC
- Cassiday Schade & Gloor
- Chapman & Cutler LLP
- City of Chicago, Department of Law
- Chicago Transit Authority
- Claussen Miller
- Cook County Public Defender's Office
- Cook County State's Attorney's Office
- DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
- Foley & Lardner
- Internal Revenue Service
- Jenner & Block LLC
- Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Lord Bissell & Brook
- Marshall Gerstein & Borum LLP
- Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP
- McGuire Woods Ross & Hardies LLP
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- Schiff Hardin & Waite
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
- Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
- Sonnenchein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
- U.S. Air Force JAG
- U.S. Army JAG
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
- Ungaretti & Harris
- Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz PC
- Winston & Strawn
Graduates of the College of Law excel in a number of professional pursuits. Our graduates have enjoyed successful careers in business, and more than 100 alumni serve as CEOs, CFOs or major executives of corporations around the world. Corporate leaders include:
- Frank Clark, President, ComEd
- Jack M. Greenberg, Retired, former Chair and CEO, McDonald's Corporation
- Anne Jordan, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, PeopleSoft, Inc.
- Carla Michelotti, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Director of Government Affairs, Leo Burnett Worldwide, Inc.
Others serve as elected and appointed public officials, including:
- Richard M. Daley, Mayor, City of Chicago
- Mary Dempsey, Commissioner, Chicago Public Library System
- Adeline Geo-Karis, Illinois State Senator
- CRobert F. Harris, Cook County Public Guardian
- John Stroger, President, Cook County Board
DePaul graduates also are well represented on the judiciary. Currently, more than 250 graduates preside or serve in the state and federal courts, including:
- William Bauer, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- David Cerda, retired, Illinois Appellate Judge
- Judith Cohen, Illinois Appellate Judge
- Judy Gaskell, Librarian, United States Supreme Court
- Charles P. Kocoras, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois