Drexel University, Earle Mack School of Law
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More Ratings*
Student | Alumni | |
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A- | A | |
A+ | A+ | |
B- | B | |
B+ | B+ | |
A- | A |
US News Rank
What do these ratings mean?
The ATL School and Firm Insiders Survey asks self-identified current students, alumni, and practicing lawyers to rate major aspects of life at their law school (academics, social life, clinical training, career services, financial aid advising) and/or law firm (compensation, hours, morale, culture, training). We then translate these ratings into letter grades, where the mean score for each particular ratings category is the equivalent of a “B.”
We require a minimum threshold of responses for each institution before we publish any survey-based ratings content. Using a standard formula for statistical validity, we adhere to a threshold that gives us an 85% confidence level and a 10% margin of error. The precise threshold number will of course vary depending on the size of the individual institution. For example, for a law firm of 1,000 attorneys, we would require 50 responses in order to publish ratings for the firm.
Employment
Class of 2016, data from Law School Transparency and the American Bar Association
21%
1 %
Employment 14 %
Required* 64 %
Funded 0 %
Clerkships 1 %
3 %
Large Firm
Long-term, full-time jobs at law firms that employ 101 or more attorneys. Due to data limitations,
this score may include paralegals and administrative staff.
Federal Clerkship
Long-term, full-time federal clerkships. Usually, these jobs have a duration of one year, though
sometimes graduates obtain two-year appointments or "career clerk" positions.
School Funded
All jobs funded by the school, including long-term, short-term, full-time and part-time.
Bar Passage Required*
The percentage of the entire class working in long-term, full-time positions. Excludes solo
practitioners.
Other Employment
All employment nine months after graduation, including short-term, JD advantage, professional, and
non-professional positions.
Unknown
Non-respondents and unknown credentials.
Unemployed
All unemployed students including those seeking graduate degrees and not seeking employment.
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Large Firm | 3 |
Federal Clerkships | 1 |
Government | 5.34% |
Public Interest | 7.63% |
The ATL Career Center's goal is to reconcile publicly available employment data for the class of 2013, nine months after graduation. We compared data from the American Bar Association, Law School Transparency, National Association for Legal Professionals, and individual school websites. If any information is inaccurate, please contact us at [email protected].
Student Career Plans
Sector | Anticipated | Actual |
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Source: ATL Insider Survey and the American Bar Association | ||
Work for a firm | 40% | 29% |
Work for government | 50% | 5% |
Work in non-profit/public interest | 5% | 8% |
Go solo | 6% | 1% |
Insider Reviews
from students and alumni of Drexel University, Earle Mack School of Law
Drexel provides a lot of opportunity to gain practical experience. It’s a small school with good professors and lots of adjuncts who actually work for a living and know how to be a lawyer and not just how to wax poetic about legal theory that will never help you earn a paycheck (unless you too become a law professor). Everyone has the opportunity to complete at least one co-op, which is an unpaid legal job for a full semester. You learn a lot more by doing than by listening to people tell you how to do things, especially things they have never done.
Alumni
Go if you like the (geeky) thrill of institution building and the ablity to truly engage with your faculty and administration – the small class size and real excitement the professors and staff feel about delivering a legal education that is both intellectually rigous and actually *useful* upon graduation make up for every small glitch or growing pain.
Alumni
The relatively small student body fosters a real sense of community at Drexel because everyone knows one another. The fact that the law school is new also helps the sense of community, as Drexel’s reputation depends directly on the success of current students and recent graduates. The school genuinely seems interested in building its reputation the right way by providing students with practical experience, having students excel in national competitions, and being transparent about employment statistics. I can’t imagine Drexel ever stooping to the grade inflation seen at other schools simply to make students look more attractive to employers on paper. Prospective applicants should also know that most employment opportunities will be in the local Philadelphia area. Many students come from out of state, but most end up sticking around Philadelphia both because it’s where people are familiar with Drexel (i.e., the most job opportunities) and because people simply like the city and find it a desirable place to live. Finally, the student body at Drexel is generally pretty laid back. Students are happy to be at a quality law school, but at the same time we realize it’s not Harvard or Yale. So there’s none of the arrogance I imagine you find at the very high-ranked schools.
Alumni
(1) Career services is like a deer in the headlights and will answer any comments, questions, and complaints very defensively. (2) The co-op and clinical model only pays lip service to real-life lawyering. The school has not offered and is not willing to offer panels, seminars, classes, or anything similar about how to open and run a law practice outside of being hired and then trained by by a firm, agency, public-interest, or government employer.
Alumni
The primary focus is on experience and getting you out there. The Co-op program can a) serve as additional experience in addition to your summer jobs, b) be an excellent networking opportunity and c) help you decide if you *really* want to do this.
Alumni
The only hard part getting out was not having a large network of Drexel Alum to go to for advice, jobs, or help. But this is changing more and more every year. And we are making a name for Drexel.
Alumni
Practical experience and mentoriship is very available at the school. Students are not cut-throat competetive; the school has created a fairly collaborative environment.
Alumni
Earle Mack School of Law’s small (yet steadily growing) reputation in Philadelphia may make finding employment difficult post-graduation. If you’re looking to clerk after law school, write onto law review because that’s all that old, gray-haired judges seem to care about. If you’re looking to crack into Big Law, make sure you do OCI in the Fall of 2L year. Although career services is helpful with clerkship applications and reminding you about deadlines for public interest jobs, it seems like career services is focused entirely on OCI. The Dean of Career Services is not the nicest lady around.
Alumni
Drexel affords students a great opportunity to learn and to grow–not just as an aspiring attorney, but also as a person. You’ll learn from top notch faculty, gain hands on experience through co-op and/or clinics, and make great connections with members of the bar, as well as with faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
Alumni
Drexel provides a lot of opportunities to gain practical experience. Take advantage of them.
Alumni
Not to take on significant amounts of debt unless they are willing to work their ass off and get the grades that will put them at the top of their class.
2L
Do not expect to find a job or summer gig through the career office.
3L
Engaging professors that truly care about the success of their students. Professors willing to go out of their way to help their quality students get jobs. Not many great networking opportunities or ability to connect with alumni.
3L
Drexel offers incredible opportunities for hands on education.
3L
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