Colorado Law students are well-suited for careers in business and entrepreneurship.

Many of our students come to law school with backgrounds in finance, tax, science, engineering, math, economics, information technology and marketing. Once at Colorado Law, students become involved with the , the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØNew Venture Challenge, and the , to name a few.

Colorado Law also offers a vast number of upper-level business law courses, a joint JD/MBA dual degree program, an Entrepreneurial Law Certificate program, and the opportunity to get startup experience through the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic.

Employers rely on our students' entrepreneurial skill set, which has led to an increase in the number of summer opportunities with in-house legal departments and companies over the past few years.

Read more about how Colorado Law is raising its profile in the entrepreneurial community and teaching its students to be innovative thinkers in by (P. 19) Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Entrepreneurship Initiative for the Silicon Flatirons Center, and (P. 11) by David Cline, Colorado Law Class of 2012.

Summer Employment

Over the last five summers, an average of 26 1Ls and 24 2Ls have worked in businesses for their summer job.

Summer 1L Jobs Class 2L Jobs Class
2020 21 Class of 2022 6 Class of 2021
2019 20 Class of 2021 27 Class of 2020
2018 28 Class of 2020 21 Class of 2019
2017 33 Class of 2019 26 Class of 2018
2016 28 Class of 2018 39 Class of 2017

Representative employers from summer 2020 included:

  • AT&T (Washington, DC)
  • Ball Corp (Broomfield, CO)
  • CenturyLink (Denver, CO)
  • CoBank (Greenwood Village, CO)
  • Danaher Corporation (Loveland, CO)
  • DISH Network (Denver, CO)
  • Hach Company (Loveland, CO)
  • HealthTrio (Denver, CO)
  • Liberty Latin America (Denver, CO)
  • Lockheed Martin Space Systems (Littleton, CO)
  • NBCUniversal (New York, NY)
  • Partners Group (New York, NY)
  • T-Mobile US, Inc. (Denver, CO)
  • Woodward, Inc. (Fort Collins, CO)
  • Xcel Energy (Denver, CO)

Post-graduate Careers

Class of 2022

  • 13 members of the Class of 2022 reported working in full time, bar passage required or JD advantage jobs with businesses
  • The median salary was $93,500 and the mean salary was $95,050 (76% of full-time, long-term salaries reported)
  • Business employers for the Class of 2022 include:
    • Ascend Analytics (Boulder, CO)
    • Caruso Ventures (Boulder, CO)
    • DaVita (Denver, CO)
    • DISH Network (Englewood, CO)
    • Elevate Services (Los Angeles, CA)
    • Ernst & Young (Denver, CO)
    • Golf Tec (Denver, CO)
    • Plante Moran (Denver, CO)
    • Woodward (Fort Collins, CO)
    • Xcel Energy (Denver, CO)

Class of 2021

  • 9 members of the Class of 2021 reported working in full time, bar passage required or JD advantage jobs with businesses
  • The median and mean salary was $90,000 (88% of full-time, long-term salaries reported)
  • Business employers for the Class of 2021 include:
    • Blue River Partners (Dallas, TX)
    • DISH Network (Englewood, CO)
    • LawRank (Los Angeles, CA)
    • Liberty Latin America (Denver, CO)
    • Lumen Technologies (Denver, CO)
    • Partners Group (Broomfield, CO)
    • Renewable Energy Systems (Broomfield, CO)

Class of 2020

  • 13 members of the Class of 2020 reported working in full time, bar passage required jobs with businesses
  • The median salary was $75,000 and the mean was $77,300 (83% of full-time, long-term salaries reported)
  • Business employers for the Class of 2020 include:
    • ContractsRx (Centennial, CO)
    • Denver Health (Denver, CO)
    • First American Title Insurance Company (Denver, CO)
    • Lumen Technologies (Broomfield, CO)
    • Molson Coors (Chicago, IL)
    • ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ)
    • Oracle (Broomfield, CO)

Class of 2019

  • 9 members of the Class of 2019 reported working in full time, bar passage required jobs with businesses
  • The median salary was $78,000 and the mean was $78,028 (100% of full-time, long-term salaries reported)
  • Business employers for the Class of 2019 included:
    • Bellco Credit Union (Greenwood Village, CO)
    • Life Time Fitness (Louisville, CO)
    • Medtronic (Boulder, CO)
    • Molson Coors (Denver, CO)
    • SRS Acquiom (Denver, CO)
    • TRELORA, Inc. (Denver, CO)
    • Woodward (Stuttgart, Germany)

Class of 2018

  • 10 members of the Class of 2018 reported working in full time, bar passage required jobs with businesses
  • The median salary was $72,500 and the mean was $69,751 (100% of full-time, long-term salaries reported)
  • Business employers for the Class of 2018 included:
    • CoBank (Greenwood Village, CO)
    • DISH Network (Englewood, CO)
    • Techstars (Boulder, CO)
    • Medtronic (Boulder, CO)
    • Molson Coors (Denver, CO)
    • Real Capital Solutions (Louisville, CO)
    • T-Mobile (Denver, CO)

Class of 2017

  • 20 members of the Class of 2017 found full-time, long-term, bar passage required jobs with businesses
  • The median salary was $82,500 and the mean was $83,720 (100% of full-time, long-term salaries reported)
  • Business employers for the Class of 2017 included:
    • Adobe (Lehi, UT)
    • Cisco (San Jose, CA)
    • DISH Network (Englewood, CO)
    • Equinix (Redwood City, CA)
    • JLT Specialty Insurance Services (Denver, CO)
    • KeyBank (Superior, CO)
    • LifeTime Fitness (Louisville, CO)
    • Otter Products (Fort Collins, CO)
    • Webroot (Broomfield, CO)

Class of 2016

  • 19 members of the Class of 2016 found full-time, long-term, bar passage required jobs with businesses
  • The median salary was $75,000 and the mean was $72,294 (94% of full-time, long-term salaries reported)
  • Business employers for the Class of 2016 included:
    • Centura Health (Centennial, CO)
    • Coalfire Systems (Westminster, CO)
    • Elevate Services (Broomfield, CO)
    • Ibotta (Denver, CO)
    • Layer3TV (Denver, CO)
    • Molson Coors (Denver, CO)
    • VMWare (Austin, TX)

Silicon Flatirons Internship Programs

Silicon Flatirons has designed that give students full immersion into technology policy or business law (with a tech focus) before graduation. Students accepted into these programs gain a competitive edge with real-world experience.


The DC Summer Program places students in technology-focused private and public organizations and government agencies in Washington DC for internships. Participating organizations include the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, National Emergency Number Association, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Public Knowledge, Common Cause, Verizon, AT&T,  and Disney.


The Governmental Entrepreneurial Leadership Accelerator (GELA) program launched in 2016 to support governments—which need to do more with less—to encourage innovative problem solving to pressing public policy challenges. The accelerator brings together Colorado Law students and City and County of Denver and State of Colorado employees as fellows for 7 weeks during the summer. The fellows take part in a cutting-edge entrepreneurial curriculum, learn from regional and national mentors, and test and pitch entrepreneurial solutions to identified challenges facing these governments and their citizens.