Law schools with associates in Chicago (2013 ed.)
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:28 pm
I post on AutoAdmit all the time. This is my third year compiling associates in Chicago at major firms. You can see the thread here. I know some of you don't want to click through, but I don't think it's productive to just cut-and-paste all the stuff from there and put it here again. Among the highlights:
Among nine firms (Kirkland, Sidley, Mayer, Latham, Winston, Jones Day, Jenner, Skadden, Bartlit Beck), there are 1241 associates, -113 (or 8%) reduction since 2012, -206 (or 14%) reduction since 2011.
Top raw totals of associates: Northwestern 182, Chicago 178, Michigan 108, Harvard 105, Illinois 85, Notre Dame 54, DePaul 38, Kent 35, Loyola 35, GULC 32, WUSTL 30
Schools with big gains/losses in raw totals of associates in last year: Chicago +7, Stanford +6, Penn +5; Ohio State -5, Virginia -6, Wisconsin -6, John Marshall -6, Texas -6, Kent -7, Illinois -8, DePaul -8, NYU -9, Vanderbilt -9, Iowa -9, Northwestern -12
Highest % of associates as a percentage of graduating class for a handful of schools (this is not summer associate totals, but gives you a metric of how well the school fares that accounts for size; for instance, 178 total associates in Chicago, 200 in a graduating class, so 89% as the metric): Chicago 89%, Northwestern 66%, Illinois 38%, Notre Dame 31%, Michigan 29%, Harvard 18%, Loyola 16%, Iowa 14%, WUSTL 12%, DePaul 12%, Kent 12%, Minnesota 8%, Indiana 7%, Wisconsin 6%, John Marshall 3%
Gains and losses by category: I created four categories of schools.
Ivy-Plus (Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, Penn, Cornell): +19 associates over '12
Chicago-Regional (DePaul, John Marshall, Kent, Loyola): -25 associates over '12
Big Ten (Michigan, Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan State): -46 associates over '12
All others (61 schools): -48 associates over '12
Feel free to cut-and-paste data from the original findings and evaluate. Might be useful to pop some misconceptions about Chicago and placement.
Among nine firms (Kirkland, Sidley, Mayer, Latham, Winston, Jones Day, Jenner, Skadden, Bartlit Beck), there are 1241 associates, -113 (or 8%) reduction since 2012, -206 (or 14%) reduction since 2011.
Top raw totals of associates: Northwestern 182, Chicago 178, Michigan 108, Harvard 105, Illinois 85, Notre Dame 54, DePaul 38, Kent 35, Loyola 35, GULC 32, WUSTL 30
Schools with big gains/losses in raw totals of associates in last year: Chicago +7, Stanford +6, Penn +5; Ohio State -5, Virginia -6, Wisconsin -6, John Marshall -6, Texas -6, Kent -7, Illinois -8, DePaul -8, NYU -9, Vanderbilt -9, Iowa -9, Northwestern -12
Highest % of associates as a percentage of graduating class for a handful of schools (this is not summer associate totals, but gives you a metric of how well the school fares that accounts for size; for instance, 178 total associates in Chicago, 200 in a graduating class, so 89% as the metric): Chicago 89%, Northwestern 66%, Illinois 38%, Notre Dame 31%, Michigan 29%, Harvard 18%, Loyola 16%, Iowa 14%, WUSTL 12%, DePaul 12%, Kent 12%, Minnesota 8%, Indiana 7%, Wisconsin 6%, John Marshall 3%
Gains and losses by category: I created four categories of schools.
Ivy-Plus (Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, Penn, Cornell): +19 associates over '12
Chicago-Regional (DePaul, John Marshall, Kent, Loyola): -25 associates over '12
Big Ten (Michigan, Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan State): -46 associates over '12
All others (61 schools): -48 associates over '12
Feel free to cut-and-paste data from the original findings and evaluate. Might be useful to pop some misconceptions about Chicago and placement.