NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools Forum

[Jimlaw77]

Anyone has the full list of the NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools?

Thanks

[cal2013]

1. Columbia
2. Penn
3. Chicago
4. NYU
5. Harvard
6. Cornell
7. NU
8. Duke
9. UVA
10. Stanford
11. Berkeley
12. Michigan
13. GULC
14. Yale
15. USC
16. Texas
17. UCLA
18. Vandy
19. BU
20. Fordham
21. BC
22. Howard
23. Notre Dame
24. GW
25. WUSTL
26. UIUC
27. UNC
28. SMU
29. Emory
30. W&M
31. Houston
32. UCI
33. W&L
34. Villanova
35. Temple
36. Iowa
37. Baylor
38. UC Hastings
39. Colorado
40. Tulane
41. Ohio St
42. WVU
43. Washington
44. UMN
45. Cincinnati
46. Loyola (LA)
47. Rutgers - Newark
48. ASU
49. IU - Bloomington
50. Florida

[Pragmatic Gun]

Correlates well with the law schools that place the best in large law firms.

[A. Nony Mouse]

Correlates well with the law schools that place the best in large law firms.

I mean, that's exactly what it's supposed to measure. The top 50 schools are the schools that send the most associates to large law firms, so yes, it correlates exactly.

[BigZuck]

It's unclear to me who is being whooshed ITT

[jbagelboy]

It's unclear to me who is being whooshed ITT

Everyone.

[A. Nony Mouse]

Oh, doubtless me.

[BigZuck]

Oh, doubtless me.

There are still at least two other candidates

And I wouldn't write yourself off just yet, you might have been the only one NOT getting whooshed.

That's why this one is so tough to figure out. Lots of layers

[cal2013]

Oh, doubtless me.

I think you're in the clear. I mean, I just typed out all that garbage.

[Pragmatic Gun]

I was just confirming that the rankings have some validity. I am understandably distrustful of rankings in general.

[Pragmatic Gun]

How did we get so meta anyway?

[Ron Don Volante]

I was just confirming that the rankings have some validity.

them be fightin words

[FSK]

How did we get so meta anyway?

We just want to constantly bitch, so we have to go deeper.

[Pragmatic Gun]

How did we get so meta anyway?

We just want to constantly bitch, so we have to go deeper.

Mods, I feel funny. Help!

[donewithannarbor]

Here's the link to the list with all of the relevant statistics and such. Not sure if this is a paid site that I am seeing via my law firm or not, but here goes:
http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202718517845

[lacrossebrother]

I was just confirming that the rankings have some validity. I am understandably distrustful of rankings in general.

The measure is literally pct of grads entering amlaw 250 firms sooo

[donewithannarbor]

Agreed, and, in a way, it's straightfoward and not misleading. In a publication aimed at larger law firms, it is telling said firms 'here is where you all, or at least the top 250 of you all, have been going to get your young talent.' It doesn't hold itself our to be a comprehensive ranking, just a run down of the percentage of a school's grads going to the biggest private employers. Take it for what it is.

[lacrossebrother]

Agreed, and, in a way, it's straightfoward and not misleading. In a publication aimed at larger law firms, it is telling said firms 'here is where you all, or at least the top 250 of you all, have been going to get your young talent.' It doesn't hold itself our to be a comprehensive ranking, just a run down of the percentage of a school's grads going to the biggest private employers. Take it for what it is.

There's nothing to agree with. I'm just saying it's pretty spergy to comment "this tracks biglaw placement well" when it's literally a sorting of biglaw placement.

[hoos89]

That depends on how you define big law. The biggest 250 firms is kind of an arbitrary cutoff.

Also, it doesn't take into consideration federal clerskhips, a significant chunk of whom will go into firm afterwards. These rankings understate the actual big law placement of pretty much every school, but particularly those with significant A3 clerkship placement (Yale, Stanford, etc.) and those that place a disproportionate number of students into secondary markets with a number of "big firms" that fall outside the top 250.

[2014]

These rankings are horribly unfair to U.Chicago we would be #1 using a more appropriate metric.

[Mack.Hambleton]

Why is Minnesota so high in US NEWS rankings?? It has shit placement

[Pragmatic Gun]

These rankings are horribly unfair to U.Chicago we would be #1 using a more appropriate metric.

Not sure if serious

[jbagelboy]

These rankings are horribly unfair to U.Chicago we would be #1 using a more appropriate metric.

Not sure if serious

Its a schtick.

[lacrossebrother]

this is the worst thread ever

[Pragmatic Gun]

Have you seen Da Rascal's shitshow?