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Join with your school email 3 firm events this month3 virtualWhere Cornell Law's Class of 2025 Went
65.5% of Cornell Law's class of 2025 went to firms with 101+ lawyers.
- Solo
- 0% of graduates (0)
- 1 to 10
- 3% of graduates (6)
- 11 to 25
- 1.5% of graduates (3)
- 26 to 50
- 1.5% of graduates (3)
- 51 to 100
- 1% of graduates (2)
- 101 to 250
- 2.5% of graduates (5)
- 251 to 500
- 6.1% of graduates (12)
- 501+
- 56.9% of graduates (112)
Plus 11 federal clerkships.
Source: ABA Required Disclosures, class of 2025. Percent of all 197 graduates, counting full-time, long-term jobs. Firm size counts the lawyers at a graduate's firm, not which firm it was. The ABA does not report employer names.
Top firms at Cornell Law
The firms Cornell Law students gave the most Gold Medals and Gold Stars. A firm shows once 10 students pick it, and counts are rounded to 5.
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372 Firms · 82 Open Now · Sort by date from the Opens and Deadline headers
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
2L Summer 2028Also a 1L OptionNew York, DC, LA +5
Materials: Undergrad TranscriptOpen Now
Rolling
2L Summer 2028New York, DC, LA +8
Materials: Cover Letter · Law School Transcript · Undergrad Transcript OptionalOpen Now
Deadline Jan 29, 2027
Open Now
Deadline Mar 5, 2027
2L Summer 2028New York, DC, LA +10
Materials: Law School Transcript · Undergrad Transcript OptionalOpen Now
Rolling
2L Summer 2028New York, DC, LA
Materials: Cover Letter · Law School Transcript · Undergrad TranscriptOpen Now
Rolling
2L Summer 2028Also a 1L OptionNew York, DC, LA +6
Materials: Law School TranscriptOpen Now
Deadline Feb 5, 2027
Open Now
Rolling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
2L Summer 2028Also a 1L OptionNew York, DC, LA +3
Materials: Law School Transcript · Undergrad TranscriptOpen Now
Rolling
2L Summer Summer 2028New York, DC, LA +9
Materials: Cover Letter · Law School Transcript · Undergrad TranscriptOpen Now
Rolling
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
2L Summer 2028Also a 1L OptionNew York, DC, LA +2
Open Now
Rolling
| Track | Firm | Apply | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 2L Summer 2028Also a 1L OptionNew York, DC, LA +5 Materials: Undergrad Transcript | 3 | 5 | Open Now Rolling | ||
2L Summer 2028New York, DC, LA +8 Materials: Cover Letter · Law School Transcript · Undergrad Transcript Optional | 4 | 2 | Open Now Deadline Jan 29, 2027 | ||
| 5 | 25 | Open Now Deadline Mar 5, 2027 | |||
2L Summer 2028New York, DC, LA +10 Materials: Law School Transcript · Undergrad Transcript Optional | 6 | 1 | Open Now Rolling | ||
2L Summer 2028New York, DC, LA Materials: Cover Letter · Law School Transcript · Undergrad Transcript | 7 | 14 | Open Now Rolling | ||
2L Summer 2028Also a 1L OptionNew York, DC, LA +6 Materials: Law School Transcript | 8 | 4 | Open Now Deadline Feb 5, 2027 | ||
| 9 | 28 | Open Now Rolling | |||
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 2L Summer 2028Also a 1L OptionNew York, DC, LA +3 Materials: Law School Transcript · Undergrad Transcript | 10 | 10 | Open Now Rolling | ||
2L Summer Summer 2028New York, DC, LA +9 Materials: Cover Letter · Law School Transcript · Undergrad Transcript | 11 | 6 | Open Now Rolling | ||
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 2L Summer 2028Also a 1L OptionNew York, DC, LA +2 | 13 | - | Open Now Rolling |
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