Most of our graduates are in private practice, but there is significant representation in business, government, and legal services, including 40 judges, referees, and administrative law judges and magistrates.
Many graduates pursue innovative nonlegal careers.
The value of the J.D. is that each student can mold and shape a career based on individual interests and goals. Hamline's Law School alumni number over 3,000 and reside in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and several foreign countries. The largest alumni populations outside Minnesota are in Wisconsin, California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Iowa, and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Recent graduates have served as law clerks to judges of the United States District Court and Circuit Courts of Appeal, United States Bankruptcy Court, Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, as well as numerous district courts-giving strong testimony to their qualifications and solid foundation in legal research and writing. Our law alumni are not just a measure of Hamline's success, they are an active part of it.