Top Law Schools

One of my classmates was bragging about how his great-great-grandfather went to the top law school at the time but it is no longer around. I was surprised when it wasn't HYS. I believe he said it was Leechfield or something. Tried Google it but nothing turned up.

Anyone have any ideas? Sounds like a TTT.

dkb17xzx wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litchfield_Law_School

Reminds me of People College of Law

State and National Law School is one often forgotten by our friends over at ATL, but worthy of mention regardless.

Furthermore, Winchester was only open for 7 years and graduated around 130 students total. Of those 130 graduates, 8 of them appear to have done well enough to end up in the "notable alumni" section.

Litchfield (now ironically associated most heavily with OITNB) happens to be affiliated with one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most absurdly named individuals, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus II.

History is wack, man.

In the early 1800s, Litchfield = CCN.

On a loosely related note, wasn't Michigan one of the very top law schools at some point (which it still is, but you know what I mean)?

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snooze wrote:On a loosely related note, wasn't Michigan one of the very top law schools at some point (which it still is, but you know what I mean)?

Mich was the S of it's day for a while (#3 through the 80s, I believe). Now it's merely T14. But, still good (I'm going there in a month!).

cron1834 wrote:In the early 1800s, Litchfield = CCN.

This doesn't make any sense since it was the *first* law school, unless you count William & Mary. Stanford as a university wasn't even founded until the late 19th century, and the law school much later. Conversely, Harvard, Yale and Virginia all claim to be founded in the 1810's-1820's - but of course this is all mythology since these weren't really law schools they were essentially glorified seminaries with a dude who lectured on aristotle and the english civil war

jbagelboy wrote:

cron1834 wrote:In the early 1800s, Litchfield = CCN.

This doesn't make any sense since it was the *first* law school, unless you count William & Mary. Stanford as a university wasn't even founded until the late 19th century, and the law school much later. Conversely, Harvard, Yale and Virginia all claim to be founded in the 1810's-1820's - but of course this is all mythology since these weren't really law schools they were essentially glorified seminaries with a dude who lectured on aristotle and the english civil war

Dude, I'm messing around. I've never heard of this place.