Welcome to the Career Development Office (CDO)! We take great pride in our comprehensive career services designed to assist students and alumni in connecting with potential employers, exploring a wide range of career choices, and identifying and achieving their professional goals.

Our career counselors are trained, licensed attorneys, and provide individual career counseling for all aspects of the career development and job search process. Each first-year class section is assigned a counselor to provide assistance through all three years of the law school experience. Each counselor also specializes in a substantive area, including government, judicial clerkship, public interest, intellectual property, professional development, diversity, evening students, alumni, and LL.M. counseling.

The CDO also provides students and alumni with many other services:

• Career Resource Library: includes several hundred resources ranging from general legal career planning information to employer profiles and contact information.
• Panels and Programs: scheduled throughout the year and include skills training and practice area information. Often GW Law alumni participate, providing excellent networking opportunities for students. The CDO kicks off the fall semester for 1Ls with our annual Career Exploration Conference, which is a table talk format with practitioners from many practice areas and employment sectors.
• Job Postings: thousands of summer and permanent opportunities are posted every year. Postings are updated daily, and are advertised for students and alumni (who can apply directly) 24 hours a day through our web-based job posting and recruiting system, Symplicity.
• Diversity Events and Programs: includes annual job fairs for our diverse student body, programs in collaboration with minority student groups, and a counselor dedicated to serving minority students.
• Evening Students: extended hours and flexible scheduling, and a counselor dedicated to serving evening students.
• Public Interest Initiatives: a counselor is dedicated solely to Public Interest, assists with annual public interest recruiting and job fairs, and serves as the Pro Bono Liaison helping students identify pro bono opportunities.
• Judicial Clerkships and Internships: a counselor serves as the Judicial Clerkship Advisor to support students interested in clerking for judges, either post-graduation or as summer/academic year interns.

Please check out our Information Packet and explore our website, including our employment statistics, list of representative employers, and bar passage rates, to learn more about career options and CDO services for GW Law students and alumni. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at cdo@law.gwu.edu or 202.994.7340.