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NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 7:34 am
by Jimlaw77
Anyone has the full list of the NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools?

Thanks

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:45 am
by 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

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:57 am
by Pragmatic Gun
Correlates well with the law schools that place the best in large law firms.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:07 am
by A. Nony Mouse
Pragmatic Gun wrote: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.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:17 am
by BigZuck
It's unclear to me who is being whooshed ITT

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:27 am
by jbagelboy
BigZuck wrote:It's unclear to me who is being whooshed ITT
Everyone.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:34 am
by A. Nony Mouse
Oh, doubtless me.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:36 am
by BigZuck
A. Nony Mouse wrote: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

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:48 am
by cal2013
A. Nony Mouse wrote:Oh, doubtless me.
I think you're in the clear. I mean, I just typed out all that garbage.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:15 pm
by Pragmatic Gun
I was just confirming that the rankings have some validity. I am understandably distrustful of rankings in general.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:15 pm
by Pragmatic Gun
How did we get so meta anyway?

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:19 pm
by Ron Don Volante
Pragmatic Gun wrote:I was just confirming that the rankings have some validity.
them be fightin words

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:19 pm
by FSK
Pragmatic Gun wrote:How did we get so meta anyway?
We just want to constantly bitch, so we have to go deeper.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:29 pm
by Pragmatic Gun
flawschoolkid wrote:
Pragmatic Gun wrote:How did we get so meta anyway?
We just want to constantly bitch, so we have to go deeper.
Mods, I feel funny. Help!

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:40 pm
by 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

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:42 pm
by lacrossebrother
Pragmatic Gun wrote: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

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:18 pm
by 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.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 5:24 pm
by lacrossebrother
donewithannarbor wrote: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.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 5:37 pm
by 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.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:28 pm
by 2014
These rankings are horribly unfair to U.Chicago we would be #1 using a more appropriate metric.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 8:18 pm
by Mack.Hambleton
Why is Minnesota so high in US NEWS rankings?? It has shit placement

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:17 pm
by Pragmatic Gun
2014 wrote:These rankings are horribly unfair to U.Chicago we would be #1 using a more appropriate metric.
Not sure if serious

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:41 pm
by jbagelboy
Pragmatic Gun wrote:
2014 wrote:These rankings are horribly unfair to U.Chicago we would be #1 using a more appropriate metric.
Not sure if serious
Its a schtick.

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:49 pm
by lacrossebrother
this is the worst thread ever

Re: NLJ Top 50 to Got Law Schools

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:27 am
by Pragmatic Gun
Have you seen Da Rascal's shitshow?