Career Placement
| Area of employment | Percentage of class |
|---|---|
| Law firms | 57% |
| Business & Industry | 16% |
| Government | 14% |
| Judicial Clerkships | 8% |
| Academia | 3% |
| Public Interest | 2% |
| Region of employment | Percentage of class |
|---|---|
| West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX) | 71% |
| South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV) | 9% |
| East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN) | 6% |
| North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD) | 4% |
| Midwest (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI) | 3% |
| Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA) | 3% |
| Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY) | 2% |
| Mid-Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA) | 1% |
| New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT) | 1% |
The University of Arkansas School of Law places graduates in all 9 geographic regions according to the Association for Legal Career Professionals. The school does place a majority in its home region, West South Central, with 71% of its graduates finding employment in region, and 53% of those staying in the West South Central region obtain employment in the state of Arkansas. The most popular states for University of Arkansas School of Law graduates to find employment are in Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The table to the right represents regional placement, with percentages, for the most recent University of Arkansas School of Law graduates. The University of Arkansas has alumni that practice in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and six foreign nations. The ABA also collects data on placement and puts them into six major categories. They are law firms, business & industry, government, judicial clerkships, academia, and public interest. The University of Arkansas School of Law places a majority of its students into law firms, but significant portions of the class still obtain employment in other fields—business and industry, government, and judicial clerkships. The table to the left represents the fields of placement, with percentages, for the most recent class from the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Prior to the requirement that students complete law school before taking the bar exam, Maud Crawford, who attended UA as an undergraduate for one year from 1911 to 1912, passed the examination first in her class. She became the first woman lawyer in Camden and served from 1940 to 1948 as the first woman on the Camden City Council. Her still unsolved disappearance on March 2, 1957, became the subject of international concern because she had been a law partner of U.S. Senator John Little McClellan, the former Camden resident who at the time was investigating Mafia infiltration of organized labor.
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