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CAREERS REPRESENTATIVE EMPLOYERS CLASSES OF 2012-14 UNITED STATES ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitzq Bradley Arant Boult Cummings Burr & Forman Maynard, Cooper & Gale HUNTSVILLE Leo Law Firm MONTGOMERY Alabama Office of the Attorney General THE CAREER SERVICES PROGRAM at the University of Virginia School of Law is one of the most successful among national law schools and provides students with a wide range of job opportunities across the nation and abroad. VIRGINIA enjoys a reputation for producing lawyers who not only master the intellectual challenges of legal practice, but also contribute broadly to the institutions they join through strong leadership and interpersonal skills. As a result, private- and public-sector employers heavily recruit Virginia students each year. Graduates start their careers across the country with large and small law firms, government agencies and public interest groups. ALASKA Latham & Watkins McKenna Long & Aldridge Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd U.S. Navy Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati SAN FRANCISCO Garteiser Honea Jones Day Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Littler Mendelson Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Sanford Heisler Sedgwick Shartsis Friese YUBA CITY U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps ANCHORAGE Alaska Public Defender Agency Stoel Rives COLORADO COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Public Defender ARIZONA DENVER Maricopa County Attorney’s Office Snell & Wilmer Colorado Public Defender Faegre Baker Daniels Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Hogan Lovells Law Office of Joshua Friedman Polsinelli ARKANSAS Colorado State Public Defender FORT HUACHUCA Army Communications Electronics Command PHOENIX DURANGO LITTLE ROCK Wright, Lindsey & Jennings CONNECTICUT CALIFORNIA Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider HARTFORD BEVERLY HILLS Cohen Gardner STAMFORD PwC COSTA MESA Latham & Watkins EAST PALO ALTO JOY GUO ’14 is an associate in Davis Polk’s Litigation Department in New York City. Bozicevic, Field & Francis KATHERINE MIMS CROCKER ’12 clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia during the 2014-15 term before joining McGuireWoods. She also clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III ’72 on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. FAIRFIELD U. S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps PHILIP D. WILLIAMSON ’13 clerked for Judge Lavenski R. Smith on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and for Judge Ray Kethledge on the 6th Circuit. WHERE OUR GRADUATES GO CLASSES OF 2012-14 TOP JOB LOCATIONS Washington, D.C. New York 181 213 Virginia 161 California 65 Texas 62 Georgia 41 EMPLOYMENT TYPE CLERKSHIPS* Firm 58% (610) 10 U.S. Supreme Court 82 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal 132 U.S. District Courts Clerkship 19% (204) Public Interest 19% (200)* Corporate 3% (33) and other federal courts Academic .5% (5) 66 state courts *POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS (148) *SOME ALUMNI CLERKED FOR MULTIPLE COURTS LAW FIRMS PUBLIC INTEREST* 70% with firms in American 44 federal government 70 state or local government 13 military 73 public interest groups Massachusetts 32 Pennsylvania 31 North Carolina 24 Florida 22 Illinois 20 Maryland 20 Ohio 20 Delaware 15 Alabama 13 New Jersey 13 Colorado 11 Lawyer’s top 100 by gross revenue 11% with firms ranked between 101-200 2% with large international firms* 17% with smaller firms *NOT RANKED BY AMERICAN LAWYER *INCLUDING 148 POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS CAMPUS RECRUITING FALL 2014 More than 650 offices Over 6,200 on-campus interviews of second-year students FIRST-YEAR SUMMER JOBS* CLASS OF 2016 (Summer 2014) 31% judicial 23% firm 19% academic 18% federal government 8% public interest groups 7% state or local government 5% corporate *SEVERAL STUDENTS HELD MULTIPLE POSITIONS DELAWARE WILMINGTON Abrams & Bayliss Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell Richards, Layton & Finger Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor FRESNO McCormick Barstow IRVINE Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LOS ANGELES Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Irell & Manella Jones Day Katten Muchin Rosenman Latham & Watkins O’Melveny & Myers Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Selman Breitman MANHATTAN BEACH Reback, McAndrews, Kjar, Warford, Stockalper & Moore MENLO PARK Goodwin Procter Latham & Watkins NEWPORT BEACH O’Melveny & Myers Stradling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth PALO ALTO Access Softek Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Simpson Thacher & Bartlett SACRAMENTO Pacific Legal Foundation SAN DIEGO DLA Piper DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Administrative Conference of the United States Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Arent Fox Baker & McKenzie Baker Botts Baker Hostetler Beveridge & Diamond Bingham McCutchen Blank Rome Bracewell & Giuliani Brown Rudnick Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Cause of Action Chadbourne & Parke Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Covington & Burling Crowell & Moring Debevoise & Plimpton Deloitte Dickstein Shapiro DLA Piper EarthRights International Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy Federal Emergency Management Agency Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission Federal Trade Commission Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner FiscalNote Foley & Lardner Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Greenberg Traurig Groom Law Group Hogan Lovells Hollingsworth Hughes Hubbard and Reed Hunton & Williams Internal Revenue Service Jones Day K&L Gates Kaye Scholer Keller and Heckman Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans & Figel King & Spalding Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Library of Congress McDermott, Will & Emery McKenna Long & Aldridge Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Morrison & Foerster Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Nixon Peabody Norton Rose Fulbright O’Melveny & Myers Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Paul Hastings Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation PhRMA Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Reed Smith Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Sidley Austin Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Solar Energy Industries Association Patton Boggs Steptoe & Johnson Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Sullivan & Cromwell The Majors Law Firm U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Homeland Security U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of State U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary DAVID PEREZ ’12 works in Jones Day’s Los Angeles office. KIMBERLY ROLLA ’13 works for the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville. She began her career there as a UVA Law Powell Fellow. U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs U.S. Senator Rand Paul Venable Vinson & Elkins Weil, Gotshal & Manges White & Case Wiley Rein Willkie Farr & Gallagher WilmerHale Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Winston & Strawn Winston & Strawn OAK BROOK Inland Securities Corporation IOWA Seigfreid, Bingham, Levy, Selzer & Gee ST. LOUIS Armstrong Teasdale Mississippi Lime DES MOINES Belin McCormick Nyemaster, Goode, West, Hansell & O’Brien MONTANA DILLON Max A. Hansen & Associates HELENA KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs NEBRASKA FLORIDA FORT LAUDERDALE Tripp Scott KENNEDY SPACE CENTER National Aeronautics and Space Administration MIAMI Akerman Senterfitt Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod Carlton Fields Jorden Burt Diaz Reus & Targ Hunton & Williams White & Case ORLANDO Akerman Senterfitt Baker Hostetler Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz TAMPA Foley & Lardner MacFarlane, Ferguson & McMullen Trenam, Kemker, Scharf, Barkin, Frye, O’Neill & Mullis WEST PALM BEACH Palm Beach County Public Defender GEORGIA ATLANTA Alston & Bird Arnall Golden Gregory Baker Hostetler Bryan Cave Fulton County District Attorney’s Office Jones Day Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton King & Spalding McKenna Long & Aldridge Smith, Gambrell & Russell Sutherland Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins Troutman Sanders U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development KENNESAW Overby-Seawell Company LOUISIANA Scudder Law Firm Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver Koley Jessen MAINE NEW JERSEY PORTLAND Pierce Atwood MARYLAND BALTIMORE Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office Gohn Hankey & Stichel Miles & Stockbridge U.S. Social Security Administration Venable BETHESDA Get Well Network ROCKVILLE C&T Youth Technology Academy Financial Industry Regulatory Authority MONROE Walton County Public Defender MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON Bingham McCutchen Brown Rudnick Choate, Hall & Stewart Committee for Public Counsel Services Edwards Wildman Fish & Richardson Foley Hoag Goodwin Procter Goulston & Storrs Latham & Watkins Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Ropes & Gray WilmerHale BROCKTON Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office CAMBRIDGE Real World Machine SALEM Essex County District Attorney’s Office MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS Access Justice Faegre Baker Daniels ILLINOIS CHICAGO Health & Disability Advocates Katten Muchin Rosenman Kirkland & Ellis KPMG Locke Lord McGuireWoods Sanchez Daniels & Hoffman Sidley Austin OMAHA NEWARK Genova Burns Giantomasi & Webster PRINCETON Princeton Theological Seminary NEW YORK ALBANY Boies, Schiller & Flexner BRONX Bronx County District Attorney’s Office Bronx Defenders The Legal Aid Society BROOKLYN Kings County District Attorney’s Office KEW GARDENS MCDONOUGH O’Quinn & Cronin LINCOLN NEW ORLEANS MISSISSIPPI JACKSON Burr & Forman Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy MISSOURI KANSAS CITY Horn Aylward & Bandy Queens County District Attorney’s Office NEW YORK Accenture Advocates for Children of New York Allen & Overy Alston & Bird Arent Fox Baker & McKenzie Baker Hostetler Barclays Capital, Investment Banking Division Bingham McCutchen Bracewell & Giuliani Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Cahill, Gordon & Reindel Center for Constitutional Rights Center for NYC Neighborhoods Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Clifford Chance Cooley Covington & Burling Cravath Swaine & Moore Davis Polk & Wardwell Debevoise & Plimpton Dentons DLA Piper Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Greenberg Traurig Jones Day JP Morgan Chase & Co. Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman Katten Muchin Rosenman King & Spalding Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Legal Aid Society Linklaters Mayer Brown Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Morgan, Lewis & Bockius National Center for Law and Economic Justice New York City Law Department New York County District Attorney’s Office New York Legal Assistance Group Nixon Peabody Norton Rose Fulbright Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison PwC Queens Legal Services Corporation Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Ropes & Gray Shearman & Sterling Sidley Austin Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Stroock & Stroock & Lavan Sullivan & Cromwell Troutman Sanders Weil, Gotshal & Manges White & Case Willkie Farr & Gallagher Philadelphia Cozen O’Connor Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Pepper Hamilton PITTSBURGH Cohen & Grigsby Deloitte Jones Day K&L Gates Reed Smith ASHEVILLE The Van Winkle Law Firm CHARLOTTE Alston & Bird Bank of America Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Hunton & Williams K&L Gates Moore & Van Allen Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson GREENSBORO Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard MOORESVILLE Lowe’s Companies, Inc. RALEIGH Brown Law Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Ogletree Deakins Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan OHIO CINCINNATI Keating Muething & Klekamp Squire Sanders Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease CLEVELAND Jones Day Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease COLUMBUS Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease OKLAHOMA ENID Gungoll, Jackson, Collins, Box & Devoll NEWPORT U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON Moore & Van Allen Roper St. Francis Healthcare COLUMBIA Rogers Townsend & Thomas MOUNT PLEASANT Motley Rice SPARTANBURG Lonon Law Firm PHILADELPHIA Blank Rome Community Legal Services of Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office Oliff & Berridge ARLINGTON Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office ASHLAND U.S. Marine Corps Legal Aid Justice Center McGuireWoods Stone & Woodrow U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps CULPEPER Davies, Barrell, Will, Lewellyn & Edwards VIRGINIA BEACH Virginia Beach City Public Defender’s Office WASHINGTON SEATTLE Foster Pepper K&L Gates Lane Powell Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati TENNESSEE KINGSPORT Eastman Chemical Company FAIRFAX Fairfax Office of the Public Defender Straus & Boies Surovell Isaacs Petersen & Levy Inova Health Systems Just Neighbors U.S. Social Security Administration FORT LEE TEXAS Brown & Fortunato AUSTIN Baker Botts Fish & Richardson Gjerset & Lorenz DALLAS Andrews Kurth Baker Botts Boston Consulting Group Caldwell, Cassady & Curry Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal DLA Piper Federal Bureau of Investigation Fish & Richardson Haynes and Boone Internal Revenue Service Jackson Walker Jones Day Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Patton Boggs Squire Patton Boggs Vinson & Elkins EL PASO U.S. Department of Justice HOUSTON Andrews Kurth Bracewell & Giuliani Exxon Mobil Corporation Harris County District Attorney’s Office Haynes and Boone Klosek & Associates Latham & Watkins Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Vinson & Elkins RICHARDSON Haynes and Boone SALT LAKE CITY Snell & Wilmer Workman Nydegger WEST VIRGINIA CHARLESTON Jackson & Kelly MARTINSBURG Steptoe & Johnson PARKERSBURG Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission DANVILLE Virginia Legal Aid Society FALLS CHURCH UTAH PENNSYLVANIA ALEXANDRIA CHARLOTTESVILLE RHODE ISLAND AMARILLO NORTH CAROLINA VIRGINIA WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE Foley & Lardner WYOMING CHEYENNE Foley & Lardner INTERNATIONAL U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps FREDERICKSBURG Robert J. Barlow, Esq. HAMPTON Hampton Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office CHELSEA BELOTE ’14 works in the corporate group of Haynes and Boone in Dallas. CHINA HONG KONG Herbert & Smith BEIJING Clifford Chance HENRICO Henrico County Attorney’s Office LEESBURG Nonprofit Risk Management Center MCLEAN KPMG Morrison & Foerster ENGLAND LONDON Latham & Watkins Linklaters OXFORD Centre for Socio-Legal Studies NEWPORT NEWS Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly NORFOLK Kaufman & Canoles Protogyrou & Rigney U.S. Department of the Navy U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps Willcox & Savage RESTON Cooley Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner RICHMOND BrownGreer Capital One Christian & Barton Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Inc. Hunton & Williams McGuireWoods Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office Richmond Public Defender’s Office Troutman Sanders Virginia Attorney General’s Office Virginia Office of the Governor Williams Mullen ROANOKE Woods Rogers GUATEMALA ANTIGUA Women’s Justice Initiative HANA NAH J.D.-MBA ’13 is an associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City. THE OFFICE OF CAREER SERVICES, the JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS OFFICE and the MORTIMER CAPLIN PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER offer the tools and preparation students need to launch themselves into the legal workforce. SERVICES INCLUDE: COUNSELING STUDENTS on job-search strategies, from understanding which employers to target to planning long-term career goals PREPARING AND TRAINING STUDENTS to have successful interviews, including through live or videotaped mock interviews, to assess weaknesses and strengths REVIEWING AND CRITIQUING RESUMES, cover letters and other employment-related communications Providing what you need to LAUNCH your career SCHEDULING EVENTS throughout the school year that are designed to inform students about a variety of career paths and employment options, best practices for interviews and internships, and how to advance your career after law school HELPING STUDENTS UNDERSTAND what kinds of careers they will find rewarding TEACHING STUDENTS best networking practices MAINTAINING AN ONLINE JOB DATABASE that also allows students to receive alerts about jobs in their chosen field or city COORDINATING THE SCHOOL’S INVOLVEMENT in career fairs and recruiting events across the country, in addition to the Law School’s extensive on-campus recruiting efforts “WE TEAM WITH THE STUDENTS on all parts of their job search. We guide students in identifying employment options that will be personally and professionally fulfilling, work with them on their resumes and cover letters, assist them in preparing for interviews and then educate them on skills that will aid them in the workplace.” —KEVIN DONOVAN, Senior Assistant Dean for Career Services OFFICE OF CAREER SERVICES OFFICE OF JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS MORTIMER CAPLIN PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER EXTERNSHIPS PRO BONO PROGRAM KEVIN DONOVAN PATRICE HAYDEN MARIT SPEKMAN LAUREN K. VENTRE RUTH PAYNE ANNIE KIM W. LAWTON TUFTS AMANDA YALE A. SPRIGHTLEY RYAN KIMBERLY EMERY SENIOR ASSISTANT DEAN FOR CAREER SERVICES SENIOR DIRECTOR OF LAW FIRM RECRUITING DIRECTOR OF CAREER SERVICES DIRECTOR OF CAREER SERVICES DIRECTOR OF JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS ASSISTANT DEAN FOR PUBLIC SERVICE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW, GENERAL FACULTY J.D., UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA J.D., M.B.A., UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA J.D., UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA J.D., NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR OF EXTERNSHIPS B.A., DARTMOUTH COLLEGE B.A., STANFORD UNIVERSITY Lauren Ventre connects students and alumni with privatesector positions within their areas of interest and assists them in formulating application documents and strategies. Prior to joining the Career Services team in 2014, Ventre worked at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in Washington, D.C., and, more recently, in the undergraduate University Career Services office. In that role, she managed B.A., CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE DIRECTOR, MORTIMER CAPLIN PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ALUMNI ADVISING B.A., COLGATE UNIVERSITY J.D., UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY Kevin Donovan leads the Office of Career Services and counsels students and alumni on general career choices and on pursuing positions with law firms. Before joining the school in 2009, Donovan was a litigation partner in the Philadelphia office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius, where his practice focused on complex tort litigation, including class actions and national serial litigation. While at Marit Spekman counsels students and With eight years of alumni on a broad large-firm practice array of career choices experience, Patrice with a focus on law Hayden assists students firm positions. She who are considering works with students positions in law firms to evaluate practice and coordinates areas, firms and legal Virginia Law’s presence markets, and helps in job fairs across the students and alumni country. Hayden also develop strategies to works with students compete effectively who are evaluating for the positions they different practice target. areas and comparing Spekman previously alternative jobs to was an associate in firm practice. She the New York office previously served as of Willkie Farr & an associate at Bryan Gallagher, where she Ruth Payne advises students and alumni as they navigate the application process for both judicial internships and judicial clerkships. This includes counseling, reviewing cover letters and resumes, conducting mock interviews and running workshops on the clerkship process. Payne was an articles editor on the Virginia Law Review. After law school, she clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III VIRGINIA’S career counselors Morgan Lewis, he was the firm’s pro bono chair from 2003-08, was heavily involved in recruiting and participated in running three summer associate programs. After law school, Donovan clerked for U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti in the Northern District of Ohio. Following his clerkship he joined Morgan Lewis and became a partner in 2000. Cave in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in whitecollar, regulatory and consumer protection matters. During her tenure there, she spent five years on the recruiting committee, culminating in her chairing the summer program, and served as co-chair of the office’s Lawyers of Color affinity group. focused on private equity/venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate and securities matters. She also served as a member of the firm’s Professional Personnel/ Legal Recruiting, Professional Development and Marketing committees. In law school at UVA, she was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Law & Politics, First Year Council and Virginia Law Women. the on-Grounds on the 4th U.S. Circuit interviewing program Court of Appeals and and recruiter relations. completed a one-year Ventre is a member Bristow Fellowship of the Virginia with the U.S. Solicitor State Bar and a 2012 General’s Office. From graduate of the Law 2004-08, she was an School, where she honors attorney with served on the editorial the Criminal Division board of the Virginia of the Department Law Review and was of Justice, where she elected to the Order of worked in the Office of the Coif. International Affairs. J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA M.F.A., CREATIVE WRITING, WARREN WILSON COLLEGE J.D., WILLIAM & MARY MARSHALL-WYTHE SCHOOL OF LAW B.S., JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY Amanda Yale previously worked at Legal Services for Children in New York City, where she defended the rights of indigent disabled children in special education and Social Security disability benefits proceedings. After graduating from law school, she worked as a staff attorney at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She then clerked for Judge I. Leo Glasser in the U.S. District Court for B.A., YALE UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT DEAN FOR PRO BONO AND PUBLIC INTEREST J.D., UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA B.A., CARLETON COLLEGE Kimberly Emery has been the Law School’s assistant dean for pro bono since 2004, and was a founder and director of the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center. Emery coordinates and administers pro bono programming for law students, counsels students and graduates regarding pro bono and public interest opportunities, develops and fund-raises for new service projects, and oversees the Law School’s have extensive experience in private practice, Pro Bono in public interest lawyering and as clerks. Challenge. Under Emery’s direction, the Pro Bono practiced commercial Lawyers, and the Eastern District of seminar to students New York. in the UVA Law in DC Program in a typical and school litigation at worked as a summer year coordinates the McLean office of intern at both the externship program that helps participants pro bono projects Hunton & Williams and Charlottesville and with more than 100 later worked at a small Fredericksburg public make connections defender’s offices. After employers nationwide, between legal theory firm in Alexandria. from work with fullgraduation, he litigated and practice. Ryan Starting in 2002, Kim criminal and family law previously served time public interest served as in-house cases at a small firm in as inspector general lawyers to pro bono counsel for Virginia local governments for western Virginia. He of the Smithsonian efforts undertaken by private practitioners. nine years, working also was a guardian ad Institution, worked litem for children. for the Environmental Emery was a board on everything from Crimes Section of member for the Legal civil rights and Tufts serves on the employment law board of directors for the U.S. Department Aid Justice Center for cases to representing the OAR-Jefferson of Justice as a trial more than 15 years and schools, police and Area Community attorney, and served was recognized in 2000 as a special assistant as the organization’s other local government Corrections program departments. She won and is a member of U.S. attorney with the Volunteer of the Year. U.S. Attorney’s Office her first case before the the Thomas Jefferson 4th U.S. Circuit Court Inn of Court and for the District of of Appeals in 2012, her the Charlottesville Columbia. Albemarle Bar final case arguing on Association. behalf of Albemarle County. W. Lawton Tufts Annie Kim leads the previously worked as an assistant Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center, public defender for through which she the CharlottesvilleAlbemarle Public counsels students seeking public-interest Defender’s Office, where he represented jobs and fellowships, hundreds of indigent invites speakers to discuss careers in defendants in misdemeanor and public service and coordinates numerous felony trials. other activities that As a law student, Tufts served on the support public service at the Law School. After boards of the Public Service Fund and graduating from the Law School in 1999, she Lawyers Helping Sprightley Ryan directs the externships program at Virginia Law. Externships allow students to work fulltime or part-time doing legal work for public service employers while earning academic credit. As director, Ryan counsels students who are in the program or who are considering an externship, and advises them on selecting an employer. Ryan also teaches a JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS CLASSES OF 2012-14 SOME GRADUATES HAVE HELD MORE THAN ONE CLERKSHIP Rhesa Barksdale E. Grady Jolly AUSTIN, TEXAS U.S. SUPREME COURT Stephen G. Breyer Anthony M. Kennedy John G. Roberts Antonin Scalia Clarence Thomas Fortunato P. Benavides Patrick Higginbotham ATLANTA Julie E. Carnes Beverly B. Martin Catharina Haynes HOUSTON Harold R. DeMoss Jr. Jennifer Walker Elrod Edith Hollan Jones Jerry E. Smith Eugene E. Siler Jr. LOUISVILLE, KY. Danny Boggs ANN ARBOR, MICH. Raymond M. Kethledge FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS WASHINGTON, D.C. Merrick Garland Thomas B. Griffith Karen LeCraft Henderson A. Raymond Randolph Judith W. Rogers Sri Srinivasan David Tatel Robert L. Wilkins Eric L. Clay LANSING, MICH. Richard F. Suhrheinrich COLUMBUS, OHIO ALABAMA ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM Karen Bowdre Virginia Emerson Hopkins R. David Proctor HUNTSVILLE C. Lynwood Smith Jr. MEDINA, OHIO MEMPHIS, TENN. Bernice B. Donald Julia Smith Gibbons NASHVILLE, TENN. FEDERAL CIRCUIT Jane Stranch WASHINGTON, D.C. Raymond T. Chen Todd M. Hughes Alan D. Lourie Jimmie V. Reyna SOUTH BEND, IND. Kenneth F. Ripple 1ST CIRCUIT William J. Kayatta Jr. DISTRICT OF ARIZONA David Campbell CALIFORNIA CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA LITTLE ROCK, ARK. NEW YORK Dennis Jacobs Robert A. Katzmann Robert D. Sack Richard C. Wesley 3RD CIRCUIT CALIFORNIA Beth Labson Freeman Edward J. Davilla Arthur Weissbrodt WILMINGTON, DEL. CONNECTICUT Kent A. Jordan DUNCANSVILLE, PA. D. Brooks Smith SCRANTON, PA. Thomas I. Vanaskie N. Randy Smith LAS VEGAS Jay Bybee PORTLAND, ORE. Susan Graber SAN FRANCISCO 4TH CIRCUIT BALTIMORE Jeffrey Alker Meyer Diana Gribbon Motz Betty Fletcher SILVER SPRING, MD. Pamela Harris WILMINGTON Richard Andrews Leonard P. Stark Rosemary M. Collyer Rudolph Contreras Amit Priyavadan Mehta Randolph D. Moss U.S. TAX COURT Carolyn Chiechi Joseph H. Gale Joseph Nega Gershwin A. Drain Stephen J. Murphy III LAS VEGAS Nancy J. Koppe RENO Howard D. McKibben NEW YORK Deborah Batts Paul G. Gardephe Alison Nathan Sarah Netburn Loretta A. Preska Jed S. Rakoff MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CAROLINA NEW BERN NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO NEW ORLEANS BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Edith Brown Clement William H. Pryor Jr. JACKSON, MISS. MOBILE, ALA. RALEIGH DALLAS Jorge Solis SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WEST PALM BEACH CLEVELAND Donald M. Middlebrooks Solomon Oliver Jr. SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO COLUMBUS HOUSTON George Hanks Kenneth Hoyt NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT Irene Keeley AUSTIN Andrew Austin Philip R. Martinez UTAH DISTRICT OF UTAH SALT LAKE CITY Evelyn J. Furse VIRGINIA EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA John Anderson Leonie M. Brinkema Theresa Carroll Buchanan James C. Cacheris Thomas S. Ellis III T. Rawles Jones Jr. Liam O’Grady Arenda L. Wright Allen Mark S. Davis Robert G. Doumar Raymond Jackson Rebecca Beach Smith Stephen C. St. John RICHMOND Amul Thapar OKLAHOMA WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA John Gibney Henry Hudson Robert E. Payne LONDON ST. PAUL CONCORD Robert Lynn NEW JERSEY STATE COURTS NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT MOUNT HOLLY Philip E. Haines HACKENSACK BIRMINGHAM Robert S. Vance William De Lorenzo Jr. MIDDLESEX Jamie Happas MONMOUTH David Bauman ARIZONA SUPREME COURT PHOENIX MORRISTOWN ANNALISE LISSON ’14 clerked for U.S. Judge Julie Carnes in Atlanta before joining Alston & Bird there. Peter Bogaard NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT, W. Scott Bales APPELLATE DIVISION CALIFORNIA Carmen H. Alvarez William E. Nugent ATLANTIC CITY CALIFORNIA COURT OF APPEAL LOS ANGELES MORRISTOWN Elwood G. Lui Alexander P. Waugh Jr. DELAWARE Anthony Parrillo TRENTON DELAWARE SUPREME COURT DOVER WESTHOLD Marie Lihotz Myron T. Steele NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Lee A. Solomon CHERRY HILL WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS Elizabeth Deavers EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT VIRGINIA BROWNSVILLE NORFOLK GAINESVILLE MINNESOTA NEW HAMPSHIRE Zachary Hawthorn ALEXANDRIA SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA 11TH CIRCUIT BEAUMONT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH KENTUCKY EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO NORTH CAROLINA Jerome A. Holmes TEXAS Andrew S. Hanen NEVADA LANSING Stephen Markman NORTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST ARIZONA NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS Gregory Wormuth MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT WEST VIRGINIA CHARLESTON David C. Norton Richard M. Gergel Pamela L. Reeves Thomas Varlan LAWRENCE, KAN. 5TH CIRCUIT John E. Jones III Carlton Reeves CHARLESTON, W.VA. Henry F. Loyd HARRISBURG ALABAMA CIRCUIT COURT OHIO OKLAHOMA CITY PENNSYLVANIA KNOXVILLE LAS CRUCES MICHIGAN Barry Anderson TENNESSEE NEW MEXICO BOSTON Staff Clerkship MIDDLE DISTRICT OF JACKSON NEWARK LAND COURT DEPARTMENT Robert Ballou James Turk MISSISSIPPI Gary Jones SPARTANBURG, S.C. ROANOKE ALABAMA Jose L. Linares Esther Salas MASSACHUSSETTS TRIAL COURT, LYNCHBURG Norman K. Moon EASTERN DISTRICT OF J. Harvie Wilkinson III Mary Beck Briscoe Jan E. DuBois Eduardo C. Robreno Petrese Tucker Rebecca B. Connelly Michael Urbanski TENNESSEE James C. Dever III Robert B. King PENNSYLVANIA MASSACHUSSETTS DANVILLE Jackson Kiser SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Waugh Crigler MISSISSIPPI David M. Ebel Neil Gorsuch Timothy M. Tymkovich Albert Diaz EASTERN DISTRICT OF DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA Louise Flanagan DENVER PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN Virginia M. Hernandez Covington CHARLOTTE, N.C. 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