Quality of law schools by placement with firms/clerking Forum

[Shrimps]

Placement with Vault 100 firms and federal clerkships, 2006

http://lawfirmaddict.blogspot.com/2006/ ... ement.html
http://lawclerkaddict2008.blogspot.com/ ... chool.html

Vault 100 Placement
4 Columbia 80.2%
3 Harvard 74.1%
6 Chicago 71.4%
1 Yale 68.8%
2 Stanford 65.9%
4 NYU 61.2%
11 Duke 55.8%
12 Northwestern 53.1%
7 Penn 49.4%
13 Cornell 43.0%
8 Virginia 41.4%
8 Michigan 41.3%
14 Georgetown 34.4%
16 Texas 28.7%
8 Boalt 27.7%
15 UCLA 19.9%
27 Illinois 19.1%
17 Vanderbilt 19.0%
17 USC 18.4%
22 Notre Dame 18.3%
32 Fordham 15.3%
18 GWU 12.5%
70 Houston 11.9%
TTT Howard 11.9%
22 Boston U 11.6%
27 Boston College 11.3%
39 Wake Forest 11.0%
34 BYU 10.5%
26 Emory 8.9%

Anyone got fresher data (2007-2010)?

Duke, Northwestern and Penn appear to be the best lower tier T14. Any idea on why Duke is doing so well? The Southern thing (i.e. top Southern law firms recruiting heavily at Duke) or some other reason it's outperforming the others?

[Rawlsian]

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog ... news-.html
http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/law%20sc ... page12.pdf

Both are from 09'. Also, for individual schools, check out:
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