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Impactful Legal Careers
Start at Cardozo

A law degree from Cardozo Law means hands-on learning, real-world challenges, and career-building connections to job prospects. Professors who know your name will help you explore your passions and your interests. You’ll be challenged and supported by top legal experts and passionate advocates for the greater good. And, you’ll be in New York City, an international center for law, business, finance and media.

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Cardozo School of Law is ranked #1 in New York City for conflict resolution and #2 in intellectual property by U.S. News & World Report.  Cardozo grads are prepared to hit the ground running after graduation.

Entrepreneurial Curriculum, Real-World Problem Solving

Our entrepreneurial approach to law nurtures your creative energies and analytical problem-solving skills. Delve deep into corporate and finance law, public service law, sports law, or human rights work. The FAME Center for fashion, arts, media, and entertainment law is a standout in legal education. If tech is your passion, look into our cutting-edge cybersecurity law coursework and our tech start-up clinic.

Champions of Public Service Law

Cardozo is known for its deep commitment to social justice and public service. It’s in our DNA, as the birthplace of The Innocence Project, which pioneered the use of scientific evidence to exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals.

Corporate and Commercial Law

Cardozo’s Heyman Center on Corporate Governance is the nerve center for the study of corporate, securities, and commercial law, taught by recognized experts in their fields.

Build a Powerful Legal Career and Network

  • 14,000 alumni, 175 partners at major firms, 135 in corporate counsel offices, over 100 senior executives at financial institutions. 
  • Nearly 300 clerked in federal, state and district courts, 30 work in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. 
  • They practice in 46 states and 40 different countries.

Unparalleled Experiential Learning

Sharpen your legal skills through clinics, and externships—meaningful, real-world opportunities to practice with actual clients on a variety of cases. Learn from experienced attorneys as you build practical skills for courts, legal negotiations and business transactions.

Supportive Faculty

New York is a big city, but you’ll enjoy an intimate, supportive environment at Cardozo Law. You’ll study with widely cited legal scholars who are readily available to mentor and guide you. Our career counselors are all lawyers with the experience to help you build your career, and our job placement team is dedicated to helping our students and alumni make resume-building connections.

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Joshua Wright '17

Associate, Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The personal connections I made with Cardozo students and alumni during law school helped me to find a legal job that I truly enjoy. My Cardozo education allowed me to hone the skills I use daily to think critically about legal issues faced by corporations in the for-profit and non-profit spaces.
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