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Career Planning and Public Service

The Center for Career Planning and Public Service invites students to partner in advancing their careers by providing career coaching, recruiting opportunities, electronic job-search tools, and events. Relationships matter in the practice of the law; many of the events and activities are planned to create and promote new relationships among attorneys, alumni, and UW School of Law students.

In addition to career planning, the Center promotes Public Service/Public Interest Law through several activities, career fairs, events, and in partnership with programs such as the Gates Public Service Law Scholarship Program, the Northwest Public Service Career Fair Law School Consortium, and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. In October, the Center provides funding to enable ten students to attend the Equal Justice Works Conference and Career Fair in Washington DC. The Externship Program is administered through the Center and provides students with assistance in finding positions and receiving academic credit for practical experience in non-profit and government offices. The Center has developed close ties with local government, public service agencies, and non-profit organizations. The Center also administers Judicial Clerkship and Judicial Externship recruitment and advising.

Core Values

The office believes it can serve its mission through core values. These values are: Integrity and mutual respect, teamwork, superior competence, open and honest communication, and confidentiality. It is the goal of the office to demonstrate these values in everything we do.

Placement Statistics

Pie Chart- Private Practice: 53.4%, Judicial Cleark: 15.6%, Government: 13.9%, Business: 7.1%, Private Industry: 5.8%, Academic: 4.2%

99.4% of the Class of 2006 has been employed, mainly in private practice (53.4%), and over 35% in public service and government jobs. View our recent graduate employment statistics.