It wasn’t a return to the go-go days before the recession, but first-year associate hiring picture improved at the nation’s largest law firms during 2014. Among the 50 schools most popular with the country’s 250 largest firms, more than 29 percent of 2014 graduates landed first-year associate jobs — up slightly from 2013.
Columbia Law School retained its place as the top provider of law graduates hired by those big firms, and the University of Pennsylvania jumped from fifth to second place on The National Law Journal’s annual Go-To Law Schools list.
