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NALP Employment Report and Salary Survey

Graduate Employment Survey Form
Name
Phone
Permanent Address
City
State
Country
Zip Code
Email Address

I. Demographic Information
A. PROGRAM TYPE AT TIME OF GRADUATION	Full-time/3-Year Part-time/Evening
B. AGE (Complete either B1 or B2)
B1. Age at Graduation
B2. Birth Date	Mo Day Yr
C. GENDER	Male Female
D. RACE/ETHNCITY (You may check up to two)	Hispanic/Latino Black/African American Asian Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander American Indian/Alaska Native White/Caucasian
E. DISABILITY STATUS	No Yes (describe)

II. Post Graduate Employment Status
A1. Select only one of the following to describe your post-graduate status:
Employed in a position for which you receive a salary or a stipend (also complete the items in sections A3 and B) Enrolled in a full-time degree or certificate program Not employed-start date deferred (also complete items A2 and 7; the rest of the form is not applicable Not employed and seeking work/paid position (please also complete item A2; the rest of the form is not applicable) Not employed and not seeking work/paid position (please also complete item A2; the rest of the form is not applicable)
A2. If you are not employed, are you volunteering?
Yes, in a law-related capacity Yes, not in a law-related capacity No
A3. Job Information
1. Type of Job (choose only one) Bar admission required/anticipated (includes judicial clerks) JD advantage Other professional position (describe) Non-professional position (describe)
2. Job is: (check only one)
Full-time Part-time
3. Job pays:
A salary of $ per year A stipend of $ (choose one) per week per month per project
4. Indicate whether the employer hired you on a short-term or long-term basis. Note that a long-term job from the employer's perspective may be one that you consider short-term, while, for example, you continue to seek a different job. Please indicate the type of job from the employer's perspective.
Job is long-term (1 year or more — specify duration below) Job has a known or fixed duration, e.g., 1 year, 2 years, or project-based Job does not have a known end-point Job is short-term (duration is fixed at less than a year)
Special funding: If your job has a fixed duration, whether short-term (e.g. less than 1 year) or long-term (e.g. 1 or 2 years), please indicate if the job is funded in either of the following ways:
The job is funded in whole or in part by a grant from an outside organization, e.g., Skadden Fellowship, Equal Justice Works. Describe The job is funded in whole or in part by my law school
5. Indicate whether you are seeking a job other than the one described here
I continue to seek a job other than that described here I am not seeking a job other than that described here
6. Timing of offer (mark one)
Before graduation After graduation but before bar results After bar results
7. Date on which you started or will start your job
Mo Day Yr
8. Source of Job: Mark the one choice that best describes how you learned of and made initial contact with the employer. If you received an offer from your summer employer, or the employer for whom you worked during law school, indicate how you initially made contact with that employer.
Interviewed during fall OCI program organized by the career services office Interviewed during spring OCI program organized by the career services office Returned to or continued with pre-law school employer Interviewed at job fair or consortia Responded to job posting in career services' print or online posting/bulletin/jobline/binder/direct contact listing or utilized its résumé referral service Referral by business colleague, friend, relative, alumni, or school personnel Responded to job posting, either in print (e.g. classified ad) or in a commercial or non-profit job site such as Monster, OSCAR, PSJD, USAJobs, etc. Initiated contact by means of a targeted mailing or informational interviewing, or as a result of networking Used a temporary placement agency or legal search consultant Started own practice or business Other (describe)
B. Employer Information
Name
Street
City
State
Zip
Complete B1, B2, and B3 Only if Your Primary Job Is in Law Firm Private Practice. If Not, Skip to B4/B5, B6/B7, B8 or B9/B10 As Appropriate. If You Are Employed by a Legal Temporary Agency, Skip to B4 and B5 (Business or Industry) Regardless of the Employer at Which the Agency Has Placed You.
B1. Total Size of Law Firm (Mark only one for size of entire firm by total number of attorneys)
Solo (you have started your own law firm as a solo practitioner) 2-10 attorneys 11-25 attorneys 26-50 attorneys 51-100 attorneys 101-250 attorneys 251-500 attorneys 501+ attorneys
B2. Firm is a public interest law firm (check if applicable)
B3. Type of Law Firm Job (mark one only)
Attorney Law Clerk Paralegal Administrator or other non-attorney position
If Job Is In Business or Industry, Complete Both B4 and B5.
B4. Type of Employer
Legal temporary agency Accounting firm Investment banking or financial institution Entertainment/sports management company Insurance company Management consulting firm Publishing house Technology/e-commerce company Trade association or political campaign Other Business or industry (describe)
B5. Type of Job
Temporary attorney work Temporary law clerk or paralegal work In-house legal Management Business development/Sales/Marketing Consulting Self-employed Other (describe)
If Job Is In Government, Complete Both B6 and B7.
B6. Level of Government
Federal State Local (city/municipal/county) Other (describe)
B7. Type of Job
Judicial Clerkship Judicial - other (non-clerkship, e.g., staff attorney) Military JAG Corps (any service) Other military position (uniformed or civilian) Prosecutor Agency Honors program Other administrative or executive branch agency position Legislative (e.g., legislative assistant) Other (describe)
B8. If Job Is in a Public Interest Organization or Other Nonprofit (Mark one item that best describes the primary type of work or job you will be handling)
Community education and organization Civil legal services Policy/advocacy Public defender or appellate defender Other (describe)
If Job Is In Academia/Education Complete Both B9 and B10
B9. Type of Employer
Law School College or university Elementary or secondary school Other (describe)
B10. Type of Job
Faculty/teacher Administrator Research assistant/fellow or other temporary position

III. Second Job Information
(Complete only if you have a job concurrent with that reported above.)
Name and Address of Employer
Name
Street
City
State
Zip
A1. Type of Job (check only one)
Bar admission required/anticipated (includes judicial clerks) JD advantage Other professional position (describe) Other non-professional position (describe)
A2. Job is: (check only one)
Full-time Part-time
A3. Employer Type (mark one only)
Law firm private practice Business/Industry Government Judicial clerkship Public interest Academic
Other Remarks

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Phone: 517-432-6800
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