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We’ve ranked the top 50 law schools according to the percentage of their 2019
juris doctor graduates who took associate jobs at the largest 100 firms.
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Karen Sloan | March 05, 2020
Columbia Law School lands at the top of our 2020 Go-To Law Schools ranking of Big Law feeder schools—marking the seventh straight year the school tops the list.
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Karen Sloan | March 05, 2020
After resisting the trend of law firms interviewing summer associate candidates prior to on-campus interview programs, three major Big Law feeder schools are now embracing early hiring.
The law school class of 2019 may well have hit the sweet spot in the Big Law hiring market, as firms aggressively recruited from top law schools to fill out their new associate ranks. The nation’s largest 100 law firms hired 4,423 recent law graduates. Among the 50 schools most popular with those large firms, more than 30 percent of 2019 graduates landed associate jobs, up slightly from the previous year. Summer associate recruiting has since declined, meaning the class of 2019 likely represents a high point in new associating hiring.
We’ve ranked the top 50 law schools according to the percentage of their 2019 juris doctor graduates who took associate jobs at the largest 100 firms. To comprise that list, we used The National Law Journal’s annual survey of law firms by lawyer head count.
In addition to ranking the top 50 law schools, we present the law schools that saw the most alumni promoted to partner in 2018, which firms hired the most associates, and how each school’s tuition compares to its Big Law placement rate.
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