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Employment Statistics and Trends

Judicial Clerkships
One employment trend for Widener graduates shows that a larger percentage of Widener's employed graduates obtain judicial clerkships than do employed graduates nationally. A judicial clerkship is a position with a sitting judge, usually for a term of one year, where a law graduate works closely with the judge on his or her cases. Judicial clerkships are highly sought after positions because they offer an outstanding opportunity to enrich a graduate's legal training under the tutelage of a judge. Many legal employers prefer to hire graduates who have had judicial clerkships.

Class of 2007 Profile
Graduates of the Class of 2007 had a 96% employment advanced degree rate within nine months of graduation

Full Time Legal Employers

  • Private Practice 49%
  • Judicial Clerkship 28%
  • Government 13%
  • Business/Industry 7%
  • Public Interest 3%

Employer Locations

  • Pennsylvania 57%
  • Delaware 14%
  • New Jersey 19%
  • Maryland 2%

Other graduates are located in Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia,  Washington, D.C. and India.