Monday, February 22, 2010

Bad Year in Legal Employment

The National Law Journal issued its annual Go-To Law School List, and the results reek of the recession. Even the top schools placed little more than half of their respective graduating classes into NLJ 250 firms. The top 10 law schools this year in terms of total percentage of the class placed:
1. Northwestern -- 55.9%
2. Columbia -- 54.4%
3. Stanford -- 54.1%
4. Chicago -- 53.1%
5. Virginia -- 52.8%
6. Michigan -- 51%
7. Penn -- 50.8%
8. NYU -- 50.1%
9. Berkeley -- 50%
10. Duke -- 49.8%
Obviously, schools like Harvard (47.6%) and Yale (35.3%) had smaller numbers because graduates of those schools tend to pursue the clerkship and academia routes more heavily. Check out the full rankings.

2 comments:

  1. Chicago places a lot of clerks, too, yet they still have the best firm placement

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  2. hls and yls got pwned by placing their OCIs so late in the process.

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