Who Uses COAP?

From 1989 through 2020, more than 1,500 Yale Law School graduates have participated in COAP, receiving over $54 million in benefits. In 2020 alone, COAP disbursed $5.4 million in benefits to over 400 graduates.

YLS alumni in COAP have recently worked for (among many others):

  • The U.S. State Department
  • The ACLU
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Private firms in Washington, D.C., Jackson, Mississippi, and Seattle, Washington
  • The Texas Defender Service
  • The New York State Attorney General
  • The NAACP Legal Defense Fund

 

Note: Deferred students should refer to COAP terms specific to the class year to which they were originally admitted.

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About COAP

The Career Options Assistance Program

COAP Highlights & FAQs

Highlights & Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

COAP Descriptions by Class

Information Specific to Each Entering Class

What Makes COAP Unique

Yale Law School's Program Maximizes Career Flexibility

Who Uses COAP?

More Than 1,500 Graduates Have Participated in COAP

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This place has always been imbued with a restless spirit, the assumption that being the finest law school in the world is never enough, and a deep belief that you, our students, can do anything.”

Heather Gerken

Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law