Schools Represented and Class Composition
We draw our summer associates, associates and lateral attorneys from across the country. In recent years, we have hired graduates of the following law schools:
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American University
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Howard
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Stanford
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Boston College
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Illinois
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Toledo
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Boston University
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Indiana-Bloomington
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Vanderbilt
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Brigham Young
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Iowa
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Vermont
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Case Western
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Marquette
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Virginia
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Chicago
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Miami
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Wake Forest
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Cornell
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Michigan
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Washington (St. Louis)
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DePaul
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Michigan State
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Wayne State
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Detroit
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Minnesota
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William and Mary
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Duke
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Northwestern
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George Washington
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Notre Dame
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Harvard
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Ohio State
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In addition to interviewing on several law school campuses each year, we also interview at the Midwest Region of the Black Law Students Association Job Fair, held in Rosemont, Illinois and the Cook County Minority Job Fair in Chicago. We also regularly attend the Loyola Patent Law Interview Program in Chicago. In addition to these job fairs, in 2012 we also attended and interviewed at the Midwest Black Law Students Minority Recruitment Conference in Milwaukee, and expect to attend again in 2013.
We hired seven 2L students for the summer of 2012, drawn from Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, and Wayne State. We also hosted four 1L students from Michigan, Iowa and Wake Forest. The summer class was composed of five men and six woman and included three persons of color.
The six associates who started in September of 2012 were drawn from four law schools: Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, and Wayne State. Two of the associates are male; four are female. One is a person of color.
We have hired ten 2L students for the summer of 2013, drawn from Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, and Wayne State. The group is composed of six women and four men, and includes one person of color. We expect to hire three 1L students to join them.
The four new associates who will be starting in September of 2013 are drawn from three law schools: Michigan State, Northwestern, and Wayne State. The group has three women and one man. One associate is a person of color.