Law.com ranked the 50 law schools that sent the highest percentage of their 2018 juris doctor graduates into associate positions at the largest 100 law firms in the country. This year, Columbia Law School tops the list, with 71 percent of its recent graduate class now working in Big Law. The University of Pennsylvania Law School comes in at No. 2, followed by New York University School of Law at No. 3.
In Georgia and its contiguous neighbors, Duke came in at No. 7; Vanderbilt at No. 14; Emory at No. 27; University of North Carolina at No. 31; Wake Forrest at No. 39 and the University of Tennessee at No. 50.
