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This might be a bad question but I read this in the UChicago profile;
"students also place well in other cities, like New York, since firms look to hire graduates from each top school."

Is this common place among law firm hiring?

short answer: yes

longer answer: yes but last year not as much.

miamiman wrote:short answer: yes

longer answer: yes but last year not as much.

Do firms dip deeper into schools where less students wish to practice in said city in order to achieve diversity of schools?