The College of Law has published its 2016 Employer Honor Roll, which recognizes employers who have regularly hired recent College of Law graduates. The Honor Roll contains a wide variety of employers, including firms of various sizes, government agencies, courts, corporations, and academic departments.  Combined, Honor Roll employers have hired nearly 200 recent College of Law graduates in the Classes of 2013, 2014, and 2015. The Honor Roll was first created in 2014.  This edition of the Honor Roll contains 14 new employers. New this year to the Honor Roll is the introduction of Silver, Gold, and Platinum levels, which correspond to the number of recent graduates hired by employers.

“The 2016 Honor Roll recognizes and thanks our most loyal employers. This year’s Honor Roll contains a diverse list of employers, in terms of practice setting, geographic location, and employer size. This diversity demonstrates that College of Law graduates can make meaningful contributions to many different types of teams,” noted Greg Miarecki, the College’s Executive Assistant Dean for Career Planning and Professional Development. “We are especially pleased to welcome 14 new employers to the Honor Roll this year, and look forward to welcoming additional employers to the Honor Roll in the future,” Miarecki added.

The 2016 Honor Roll awardees are:

Platinum Level
Office of the Illinois Attorney General
City of Chicago Department of Law
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Husch Blackwell LLP
Jenner & Block, LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
McDermott Will & Emery
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Vedder Price, P.C.
Jones Day
Mayer Brown LLP
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Schiff Hardin LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Deloitte Tax LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP 

Gold Level
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Beckett & Webber, P.C.
Chapman and Cutler LLP
Circuit Court of Cook County
Ernst & Young
Guggenheim Partners
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP
K&L Gates LLP
Littler Mendelson P.C.
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
McGuireWoods LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Sangamon County State’s Attorney’s Office
U.S. Social Security Administration
Swanson, Martin, & Bell LLP
U.S. Army JAG Corps 

Silver Level
Brenner, Monroe, Scott & Anderson, Ltd.
Brinks Gilson & Lione
Brown & James, P.C.
Bryan Cave LLP
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
HeplerBroom LLC
Heyl, Royster Voelker & Allen, P.C.
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn LLP
Husch Blackwell LLP
Illinois Appellate Court, First District
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita B. Garman
Law Offices of Meachum, Starck, Boyle & Trafman
McLean County State’s Attorney’s Office
Nora & Partners, LLP
Office of the Bronx County District Attorney
Pretzel & Stouffer, Chtd.
Robert T. Varney & Associates
Ropes & Gray LLP
Singleton Law Firm, P.C.
Social Security Administration
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

The 2016 Employer Honor Roll recognizes employers who hired recent College of Law graduates in the Classes of 2013, 2014, and 2015. All Honor Roll employers hired at least: 1) two students from this group of recent graduates into full-time positions lasting at least one year or more; and 2) one student from either the Class of 2014 or Class of 2015 into a full-time position lasting at least one year or more. For Honor Roll purposes, “recent graduates” are defined as graduates who are hired on or before March 15th of the year following graduation.

For more information, please contact:

Office of Career Planning and Professional Development
University of Illinois College of Law
Suite 101 Law Building
504 East Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, IL 61820 
Telephone: (217) 333-2961