NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL’S GO-TO RANKINGS
| Go To Rank | U.S. News Rank (2014) | School | Number of First Year Associates | Number of Juris Doctors | Percent of Grads at NLJ 250 Firms | Top Employer |
|
1 |
4 |
Columbia |
286 |
437 |
65.45% |
Cleary Gottleb Steen & Hamilton |
|
2 |
4 |
U. of Chicago |
119 |
215 |
55.34% |
Kirkland & Ellis |
|
3 |
6 |
NYU |
295 |
537 |
54.93% |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
|
4 |
2 |
Harvard |
309 |
577 |
53.55% |
Cleary Gottleb Steen & Hamilton |
|
5 |
7 |
U. of Pennsylvania |
136 |
259 |
52.51% |
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Tie) |
|
6 |
12 |
Northwestern |
146 |
286 |
51.05% |
Kirkland & Ellis |
|
7 |
11 |
Duke |
117 |
241 |
48.55% |
Latham & Watkins |
|
8 |
2 |
Stanford |
89 |
189 |
47.09% |
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and O’Melveny & Myers (Tie) |
|
9 |
13 |
Cornell |
87 |
193 |
45.08% |
Cleary Gottleb Steen & Hamilton and Davis Polk & Wardell |
|
10 |
9 |
Cal-Berkeley |
135 |
301 |
44.85% |
Bingham McCutchen and Paul Hastings (Tie) |
|
11 |
7 |
Virginia |
161 |
364 |
44.23% |
Latham & Watkins |
|
12 |
9 |
Michigan |
165 |
400 |
41.25% |
Kirkland & Ellis |
|
13 |
1 |
Yale |
80 |
206 |
38.83% |
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher |
|
14 |
14 |
Georgetown |
238 |
638 |
37.30% |
Kirkland & Ellis |
|
15 |
15 |
U. of Texas |
120 |
378 |
31.75% |
Vinson & Elkins |
|
16 |
15 |
Vanderbilt |
65 |
206 |
31.55% |
Bass, Berry & Sims |
|
17 |
17 |
UCLA |
101 |
332 |
30.42% |
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Latham & Watkins, and O’Melveny & Myers (Tie) |
|
18 |
18 |
USC |
65 |
220 |
29.55% |
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher |
|
19 |
38 |
Fordham |
118 |
481 |
24.53% |
Kirkland & Ellis |
|
20 |
23 |
Notre Dame |
45 |
184 |
24.46% |
Kirkland & Ellis |
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