Duke LLMLE students are provided services through the dedicated staff in the Career Center, whose mission is for every graduate to launch his or her career with the right job - not just any job. Almost all of our graduates are typically engaged in careers of their choosing when they graduate or shortly thereafter and we have one of the strongest employment records among U.S. law schools. There is also a helpful handbook for LLMLE students seeking employment.
Duke LLMLE graduates have found employment with startups, law firms, in-house counsel, venture capital firms, and other business. Some of their employers include:
Bowles Rice
Law firm specializing in energy law, banking law, litigation, employers’ liability law, construction law and education law.
Clinipace
A global digital contract research organization (dCRO), serving venture-backed, mid-tier, and strategic pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device firms.
Dental One Partners
Business Strategist for a managerial and marketing firm for more than 150 dental practices across 14 states.
DiscoverReady
Startup centered on creating and implementing the highest-quality, most efficient and least costly document review processes possible.
8 Rivers Capital
Technology financing and commercialization firm that brings new ideas to market.
ESO Solutions
Contracts and corporate development for company providing electronic patient care reporting (ePCR) and other software solutions designed to improve patient care.
Hellman Yates
Law firm specializing in corporate and commercial law, real estate development and leasing, mergers and acquisitions, zoning, land use law, and telecommunications.
Human Performance Consulting
Coaching, sports training programs, and technical advice rooted in evidence-based practice.
Impulsonic
Acoustic software development startup.
Lowenstein Sandler
Law firm representing public and private companies, financial institutions, investors, entrepreneurs, universities, and private clients in corporate and litigation matters.
L Star Management
Real Estate Investment firm.
McGlinchey Stafford
Law firm counseling businesses, corporations and institutions in business, consumer finance, government and public policy, healthcare, labor and employment, litigation, and public finance.
Mercy College
Director of Community, Government and Legal Affairs for Mercy College, a Middle States accredited, Hispanic-serving institution, and Department of Veteran Affairs “Yellow-Ribbon” designated school enrolling nearly 10,000 students study in more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs.
Moore & VanAllen
Business law firm for blue-chip clients including large national banks, successful international manufacturers, growing healthcare and technology companies, noted retailers, and more.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Law partnership including lawyers, patent agents, benefits advisers, regulatory scientists, and other specialists.
Motaavi
A crowdfunding market startup. Created as part of the Duke Startup Challenge student competition.
Parsons Behle & Latimer
Law Firm with expertise in providing services to the natural resources industry, including multi-billion dollar companies, start-up companies, and individuals.
Proskauer Rose
Law firm with wide experience in all areas of practice important to businesses, including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate transactions, bankruptcy and reorganizations, taxation, litigation, trusts and estates, intellectual property, and labor and employment law.
Rock Creek Capital
Managing Partner for a venture capital firm.
Smith Moore Leatherwood
Law firm with expertise in a wide range of substantive areas.
Snell, Wylie & Tibbals
Law firm handling traditional and innovative real estate, corporate, partnership acquisition, complex business litigation and financing projects for large business organizations, small entrepreneurial startups, and individuals.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida
Law Clerk providing clerical and administrative support to the court by processing filed legal documents, maintaining case-related papers, collecting authorized fees, sending notices, entering judgments and orders on the docket, informing parties of scheduled hearings, and handling inquires from attorneys and the general public.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Law firm representing technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprise companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks that finance and advise them.
Winstead
Law firm focusing on business, transactions, litigation, and dispute resolution, serving real estate, financial services, and corporate clients.
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton
Entrepreneurial law firm with a focus on growth-oriented businesses.