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Best Law Schools for BigLaw Jobs
Above the Law: “Lawyers love rankings, and there’s nothing they love more than rankings about prestigious job placement rates and the law schools that helped graduates land those impressive jobs. Readers are in luck, because today, we’ve got yet another ranking on the subject.
For more than a decade, Law.com has published a list of the best law schools to go to if you want to work in Biglaw after graduation. Law.com refers to these institutions of higher education as the “go-to law schools,” and this year, they’re ranked by the percentage of 2024 graduates who took associate positions at the 500 largest law firms based on attorney head count.
Before we get to the list of the go-to law schools, it’s worthwhile to speak about the landscape for entry-level employment in the legal profession. The ABA recently released the data for the class of 2024, and their success in the job market was historic.
That said, things are going great for the Top 10 Go-To Law Schools:
- Northwestern: 71.85%
- Penn: 67.11%
- UVA: 66.33%
- USC Gould: 64.71%
- Chicago: 58.29%
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