The law school maintains a full-time career counseling and resource center to assist each student in achieving his or her individual goals.
Each student is encouraged to meet individually with a career services counselor to discuss unique career planning goals and to develop effective job search strategies. In addition, workshops and seminars are offered on a variety of legal-related subjects. First-term students participate in workshops that focus on self-assessment, establishing priorities, dispelling myths about the law, and setting goals. Small group résumé and interview counseling workshops are offered each term. Students also participate in mock interviews with practicing attorneys to refine their interviewing skills. The Office of Career Services also offers special panels and programs each term, bringing practicing attorneys, judges, and others to campus to discuss their careers.
The Office of Career Services conducts active on-campus interview programs during both the fall and spring terms that attract prospective employers from private law firms, public interest organizations, government agencies, and private corporations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and other states.
Nationally, only about 12 percent of graduates who excel in law school are selected to serve in judicial clerkships. Rutgers regularly places more than three times that number, ranking second in the nation for placing its law graduates in these highly desirable judicial clerkships.
The school enjoys an outstanding employment-placement record. For example, as a direct result of the quality of legal education at Rutgers, 97 percent of the class of 2001 obtained employment upon graduation. Major law firms from Delaware, Philadelphia, and New Jersey recruit from Rutgers-Camden, as do many prestigious firms from California, New York, and Washington, D.C. The average salary for associates joining these firms is about $76,000, with top graduates making in excess of $100,000. In addition, local employers, such as the CIGNA Corporation, CNA, Liberty Mutual, and Public Service Electric & Gas, recruit for summer associates and interns.
The bar pass rate of Rutgers-Camden is exceptional. The law school`s bar passage rates typically surpass national averages and graduates of other schools.
