While it was largely business as usual among the top schools in the latest law school rankings from U.S. News & World Report, there was some significant movement among the California schools on the list.

Yale Law School retained its stranglehold on the top spot, with Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School repeating at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. The only change among the top five schools was Columbia Law School moving up one slot to tie with the University of Chicago Law School at No. 4.