Anyone enrolled in this american master could describe the experience please. I'd like to know if you are satisfied or not. How many hours each week you need to dedicate to study for it.
LOYOLA BOLOGNA LLM
Posted Apr 03, 2007 15:42
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<p> </p><p>Anyone enrolled in this american master could describe the experience please. I'd like to know if you are satisfied or not. How many hours each week you need to dedicate to study for it.</p>
Posted Apr 04, 2007 15:21
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Lawdragon named Loyola Law School as one of the 25 Leading Law Schools.
Top Law Schools
Posted on March 9, 2007
We hear a lot of talk about which law schools are best.
And it occurred to us at Lawdragon that we had something to contribute to the discussion. You see, no other organization reports on which lawyers and judges are the crème of the crop, whether an appellate jurist in Alaska, a personal injury lawyer in Texas or a top dealmaker in New York. Because Lawdragon uniquely provides that intelligence, it seemed a reasonable question to ask.
Where did the nation's leading lawyers and judges go to law school?
Here is the Lawdragon 25 Leading Law Schools, based on where members of the Lawdragon 500s graduated law school. This represents a survey of 99 percent of the professionals who made our guides. Lawdragon is still seeking information from the remaining 1 percent, which could alter the results slightly.
School Location Grads
1. Harvard Law School Cambridge, Mass. 249
2. Yale Law School New Haven, Conn. 98
3. Columbia Law School New York 94
4. New York University School of Law New York 83
5. University of Texas School of Law Austin, Texas 70
6. Georgetown University Law Center Washington 67
6. UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Berkeley, Calif. 67
8. University of Chicago Law School Chicago 63
9. University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, Mich. 57
9. University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, Va. 57
11. UCLA School of Law Los Angeles 56
12. University of Pennsylvania Law School Philadelphia 50
13. Stanford Law School Palo Alto, Calif. 45
14. University of Southern California Gould School of Law Los Angeles 38
15. Northwestern University School of Law Chicago 35
16. George Washington University Law School Washington 32
17. Loyola Law School Los Angeles Los Angeles 30
18. University of Miami School of Law Miami 29
19. Duke University School of Law Durham, N.C. 28
19. UC Hastings College of the Law San Francisco 28
21. Boston University School of Law Boston 26
22. Fordham Law School New York 25
23. Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law Dallas 22
23. University of Florida Levin College of Law Gainesville, Fla. 22
25. Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, Tenn. 21
Lawdragon has published six guides to the nation's leading lawyers and judges, with some lawyers making more than one guide. We reported on where 2,317 of those lawyers went to law school and are still tracking down a few whose state bar associations fail to provide basic information about the legal education of lawyers and judges. These are the results without any weighting for the number of law students who enroll in a given school, how long a given school has been educating lawyers or the size of its library. Just one question: Which schools produce the best lawyers?
A few more things to give the Lawdragon 25 further context. Harvard is the biggest, the baddest, the best. They educate more students and have been doing it the longest. They still hold a stunning prominence in producing the nation's leading practitioners.
Lawdragon reports on lawyers nationwide, with a heavy emphasis on the states where there are the most practicing lawyers: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Florida and Massachusetts. Schools that produce the leading practitioners in those states thus show up in our ranking more prominently than in other assessments. That still shouldn't obscure the significant impact the University of Texas, Georgetown and UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall have in their markets. And while Columbia and NYU get plenty of recognition for the excellent legal education they provide, they have enormous impact in the nation's most important legal market, New York.
Finally, the plaintiffs' lawyers and judges. We've got a philosophy that they count too, which explains in part the placement of regional juggernauts like Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, University of Miami, UC Hastings and Fordham Law School in the Lawdragon 25. Bottom line: if you want to get great training to actually go practice law, you have a range of choices, some of which might surprise you.
We're eager for your feedback and comments on how Lawdragon can continue to add to the discussion about the best law schools.
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Lawdragon named Loyola Law School as one of the 25 Leading Law Schools.
Top Law Schools
Posted on March 9, 2007
We hear a lot of talk about which law schools are best.
And it occurred to us at Lawdragon that we had something to contribute to the discussion. You see, no other organization reports on which lawyers and judges are the crème of the crop, whether an appellate jurist in Alaska, a personal injury lawyer in Texas or a top dealmaker in New York. Because Lawdragon uniquely provides that intelligence, it seemed a reasonable question to ask.
Where did the nation's leading lawyers and judges go to law school?
Here is the Lawdragon 25 Leading Law Schools, based on where members of the Lawdragon 500s graduated law school. This represents a survey of 99 percent of the professionals who made our guides. Lawdragon is still seeking information from the remaining 1 percent, which could alter the results slightly.
School Location Grads
1. Harvard Law School Cambridge, Mass. 249
2. Yale Law School New Haven, Conn. 98
3. Columbia Law School New York 94
4. New York University School of Law New York 83
5. University of Texas School of Law Austin, Texas 70
6. Georgetown University Law Center Washington 67
6. UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Berkeley, Calif. 67
8. University of Chicago Law School Chicago 63
9. University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, Mich. 57
9. University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, Va. 57
11. UCLA School of Law Los Angeles 56
12. University of Pennsylvania Law School Philadelphia 50
13. Stanford Law School Palo Alto, Calif. 45
14. University of Southern California Gould School of Law Los Angeles 38
15. Northwestern University School of Law Chicago 35
16. George Washington University Law School Washington 32
17. Loyola Law School Los Angeles Los Angeles 30
18. University of Miami School of Law Miami 29
19. Duke University School of Law Durham, N.C. 28
19. UC Hastings College of the Law San Francisco 28
21. Boston University School of Law Boston 26
22. Fordham Law School New York 25
23. Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law Dallas 22
23. University of Florida Levin College of Law Gainesville, Fla. 22
25. Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, Tenn. 21
Lawdragon has published six guides to the nation's leading lawyers and judges, with some lawyers making more than one guide. We reported on where 2,317 of those lawyers went to law school and are still tracking down a few whose state bar associations fail to provide basic information about the legal education of lawyers and judges. These are the results without any weighting for the number of law students who enroll in a given school, how long a given school has been educating lawyers or the size of its library. Just one question: Which schools produce the best lawyers?
A few more things to give the Lawdragon 25 further context. Harvard is the biggest, the baddest, the best. They educate more students and have been doing it the longest. They still hold a stunning prominence in producing the nation's leading practitioners.
Lawdragon reports on lawyers nationwide, with a heavy emphasis on the states where there are the most practicing lawyers: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Florida and Massachusetts. Schools that produce the leading practitioners in those states thus show up in our ranking more prominently than in other assessments. That still shouldn't obscure the significant impact the University of Texas, Georgetown and UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall have in their markets. And while Columbia and NYU get plenty of recognition for the excellent legal education they provide, they have enormous impact in the nation's most important legal market, New York.
Finally, the plaintiffs' lawyers and judges. We've got a philosophy that they count too, which explains in part the placement of regional juggernauts like Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, University of Miami, UC Hastings and Fordham Law School in the Lawdragon 25. Bottom line: if you want to get great training to actually go practice law, you have a range of choices, some of which might surprise you.
We're eager for your feedback and comments on how Lawdragon can continue to add to the discussion about the best law schools.
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Posted Apr 04, 2007 15:32
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Lawdragon named Loyola Law School as one of the 25 Leading Law Schools.
Top Law Schools
Posted on March 9, 2007
We hear a lot of talk about which law schools are best.
And it occurred to us at Lawdragon that we had something to contribute to the discussion. You see, no other organization reports on which lawyers and judges are the crème of the crop, whether an appellate jurist in Alaska, a personal injury lawyer in Texas or a top dealmaker in New York. Because Lawdragon uniquely provides that intelligence, it seemed a reasonable question to ask.
Where did the nation's leading lawyers and judges go to law school?
Here is the Lawdragon 25 Leading Law Schools, based on where members of the Lawdragon 500s graduated law school. This represents a survey of 99 percent of the professionals who made our guides. Lawdragon is still seeking information from the remaining 1 percent, which could alter the results slightly.
School Location Grads
1. Harvard Law School Cambridge, Mass. 249
2. Yale Law School New Haven, Conn. 98
3. Columbia Law School New York 94
4. New York University School of Law New York 83
5. University of Texas School of Law Austin, Texas 70
6. Georgetown University Law Center Washington 67
6. UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Berkeley, Calif. 67
8. University of Chicago Law School Chicago 63
9. University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, Mich. 57
9. University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, Va. 57
11. UCLA School of Law Los Angeles 56
12. University of Pennsylvania Law School Philadelphia 50
13. Stanford Law School Palo Alto, Calif. 45
14. University of Southern California Gould School of Law Los Angeles 38
15. Northwestern University School of Law Chicago 35
16. George Washington University Law School Washington 32
17. Loyola Law School Los Angeles Los Angeles 30
18. University of Miami School of Law Miami 29
19. Duke University School of Law Durham, N.C. 28
19. UC Hastings College of the Law San Francisco 28
21. Boston University School of Law Boston 26
22. Fordham Law School New York 25
23. Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law Dallas 22
23. University of Florida Levin College of Law Gainesville, Fla. 22
25. Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, Tenn. 21
Lawdragon has published six guides to the nation's leading lawyers and judges, with some lawyers making more than one guide. We reported on where 2,317 of those lawyers went to law school and are still tracking down a few whose state bar associations fail to provide basic information about the legal education of lawyers and judges. These are the results without any weighting for the number of law students who enroll in a given school, how long a given school has been educating lawyers or the size of its library. Just one question: Which schools produce the best lawyers?
A few more things to give the Lawdragon 25 further context. Harvard is the biggest, the baddest, the best. They educate more students and have been doing it the longest. They still hold a stunning prominence in producing the nation's leading practitioners.
Lawdragon reports on lawyers nationwide, with a heavy emphasis on the states where there are the most practicing lawyers: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Florida and Massachusetts. Schools that produce the leading practitioners in those states thus show up in our ranking more prominently than in other assessments. That still shouldn't obscure the significant impact the University of Texas, Georgetown and UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall have in their markets. And while Columbia and NYU get plenty of recognition for the excellent legal education they provide, they have enormous impact in the nation's most important legal market, New York.
Finally, the plaintiffs' lawyers and judges. We've got a philosophy that they count too, which explains in part the placement of regional juggernauts like Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, University of Miami, UC Hastings and Fordham Law School in the Lawdragon 25. Bottom line: if you want to get great training to actually go practice law, you have a range of choices, some of which might surprise you.
We're eager for your feedback and comments on how Lawdragon can continue to add to the discussion about the best law schools.
Lawdragon Leading Law Schools
Posted on March 18, 2007
Lawdragon has finished its first-ever law school ranking! Earlier this month, we released our guide to the top 25 schools, based on where members of the Lawdragon 500s our popular guides to the nations leading lawyers and judges graduated law school. This week we break out our complete list of Lawdragon's Leading Law Schools. Keep in mind that some of the numbers have changed from our last chart, as we continued to find law school information for lawyers and judges who have not made the information readily available.
No other organization reports on which lawyers and judges are the crème of the crop, whether an appellate jurist in Alaska, a personal injury lawyer in Texas or a top dealmaker in New York. See how your school did on our Lawdragon guide and let us know what you think.
School Dean Location Grads
1. Harvard Law School Elena Kagan Cambridge, Mass. 250
2. Yale Law School Harold Hongju Koh New Haven, Conn. 98
3. Columbia Law School David Schizer New York 95
4. New York Univ. School of Law Richard Revesz New York 83
5. Univ. of Texas School of Law Lawrence Sager Austin, Texas 72
6. Georgetown Univ. Law Center T. Alexander Aleinikoff Washington 69
7. UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Christopher Edley Jr. Berkeley, Calif. 67
8. Univ. of Chicago Law School Saul Levmore Chicago 63
9. Univ. of Virginia School of Law John Jeffries Charlottesville, Va. 59
10. Univ. of Michigan Law School Evan Caminker Ann Arbor, Mich. 57
11. UCLA School of Law Michael Schill Los Angeles 56
12. Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School Michael Fitts Philadelphia 50
13. Stanford Law School Larry Kramer Palo Alto, Calif. 45
14. Univ. of Southern California Gould School of Law Edward McCaffery Los Angeles 38
15. Northwestern Univ. School of Law David Van Zandt Chicago 35
16. George Washington Univ. Law School Frederick Lawrence Washington 33
17. Loyola Law School Los Angeles David Burcham Los Angeles 30
18. UC Hastings College of the Law Nell Jessup Newton San Francisco 29
18. Univ. of Miami School of Law Dennis Lynch Miami 29
20. Duke Univ. School of Law Katharine Bartlett Durham, N.C. 28
21. Fordham Law School William Treanor New York 27
22. Boston Univ. School of Law Maureen O'Rourke Boston 26
23. Univ. of Florida Levin College of Law Robert Jerry Gainesville, Fla. 23
24. Southern Methodist Univ. Dedman School of Law John Attanasio Dallas 22
25. Vanderbilt Univ. Law School Edward Rubin Nashville, Tenn. 21
26. Boston College Law School John Garvey Boston 20
26. Cornell Law School Stewart Schwab Ithaca, N.Y. 20
26. St. John's Univ. School of Law Mary Daly Queens, N.Y. 20
26. Tulane Law School Lawrence Ponoroff New Orleans 20
30. Univ. of Houston Law Center Ray Nimmer Houston 17
31. Brooklyn Law School Joan Wexler Brooklyn, N.Y. 16
31. Rutgers School of Law Stuart Deutsch Newark, N.J. 16
33. Temple Univ. Beasley School of Law Robert Reinstein Philadelphia 15
33. Univ. of Mississippi School of Law Samuel Davis University, Miss. 15
33. Wayne State Univ. Law School Frank Wu Detroit 15
36. Baylor Univ. Law School Bradley Toben Waco, Texas 14
36. Notre Dame Law School Patricia O'Hara Notre Dame, Ind. 14
36. Ohio State Univ. Moritz College of Law Nancy Rogers Columbus, Ohio 14
36. Univ. of Minnesota Law School Guy-Uriel Charles/Fred Morrison Minneapolis 14
36. Univ. of North Carolina School of Law John Charles Boger Chapel Hill, N.C. 14
36. Univ. of Utah Quinney College of Law Hiram Chodosh Salt Lake City 14
42. American Univ. Washington College of Law Claudio Grossman Washington 13
42. Cumberland School of Law at Samford Univ. John Carroll Birmingham, Ala. 13
44. Emory Univ. School of Law David Partlett Atlanta 12
44. Univ. of Illinois College of Law Heidi Hurd Urbana-Champaign, Ill. 12
46. DePaul Univ. College of Law Glen Weissenberger Chicago 11
46. Suffolk Univ. Law School Robert Smith Boston 11
46. Univ. of Cincinnati College of Law Louis Bilionis Cincinatti 11
46. Univ. of New Mexico School of Law Suellyn Scarnecchia Albuquerque, N.M. 11
46. Univ. of San Diego School of Law Kevin Cole San Diego 11
46. Univ. of Wisconsin Law School Kenneth Davis Jr. Madison, Wis. 11
46. Villanova Univ. School of Law Mark Sargent Villanova, Pa. 11
53. Catholic Univ. of America Columbus School of Law Veryl Miles Washington 10
53. Florida State Univ. College of Law Donald Weidner Tallahassee, Fla. 10
53. Loyola Univ. Chicago School of Law David Yellen Chicago 10
53. Santa Clara Univ. School of Law Donald Polden Santa Clara, Calif. 10
53. UC Davis King Hall School of Law Rex Perschbacher Davis, Calif. 10
53. Univ. of Arkansas School of Law Cyndi Nance Fayetteville, Ark. 10
53. Univ. of Kansas School of Law Gail Agrawal Lawrence, Kan. 10
53. Univ. of Missouri Kansas City School of Law Ellen Suni Kansas City, Mo. 10
53. Univ. of South Carolina School of Law Walter Pratt Jr. Columbia, S.C. 10
62. Univ. of Alabama School of Law Kenneth Randall Tuscaloosa, Ala. 9
62. Univ. of Arizona Rogers College of Law Toni Massaro Tucson, Ariz. 9
62. Univ. of Kentucky College of Law Allan Vestal Lexington, Ky. 9
65. Albany Law School Thomas Guernsey Albany, N.Y. 8
65. Indiana Univ. School of Law-Indianapolis Susanah M. Mead (Interim Dean) Bloomington, Ind. 8
65. Penn State Dickinson School of Law Philip McConnaughay Carlisle, Pa. 8
65. Texas Tech Univ. School of Law Walter Huffman Lubbock, Texas 8
65. Univ. of Colorado Law School David Getches Boulder, Colo. 8
65. Univ. of Georgia School of Law Rebecca White Athens, Ga. 8
65. Univ. of Maryland School of Law Karen Rothenberg Baltimore 8
65. Univ. of Montana School of Law E. Edwin Eck Missoula, Mont. 8
65. Univ. of Oklahoma College of Law Andrew Coats Norman, Okla. 8
65. Univ. of Washington School of Law W.H. "Joe" Knight Jr. Seattle 8
75. Hofstra Univ. School of Law Nora Demleitner (Interim Dean) Hempstead, N.Y. 7
75. Louisiana State Univ. Law Center John Costonis (Chancellor) Baton Rouge, La. 7
75. South Texas College of Law James Alfini Houston 7
75. St. Louis Univ. School of Law Jeffrey Lewis St. Louis 7
75. Univ. of San Francisco School of Law Jeffrey Brand San Francisco 7
75. Univ. of Wyoming College of Law Jerry Parkinson Laramie, Wyo. 7
81. Arizona State Univ. O'Connor College of Law Patricia White Tempe, Ariz. 6
81. Chicago-Kent College of Law Harold Krent Chicago 6
81. Indiana Univ. School of Law-Bloomington Lauren Robel Bloomington, Ind. 6
81. Pepperdine Univ. School of Law Kenneth Starr Malibu, Calif. 6
81. Southwestern Univ. School of Law Bryant Garth Los Angeles 6
81. Syracuse Univ. College of Law Hannah Arterian Syracuse, N.Y. 6
81. Univ. of Denver Sturm College of Law Jose Roberto Juarez Jr. Denver 6
81. Univ. of Idaho College of Law Don Burnett Moscow, Idaho 6
81. Univ. of Iowa College of Law Carolyn Jones Iowa City, Iowa 6
81. Univ. of Missouri Columbia School of Law R. Lawrence Dessem Columbia, Mo. 6
81. Univ. of Tennessee College of Law John Sobieski Jr. (Interim Dean) Knoxville, Tenn. 6
81. Univ. of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker Sacramento, Calif. 6
81. Washington Univ. in St. Louis School of Law Kent Syverud St. Louis 6
81. West Virginia Univ. College of Law John Fisher II Morgantown, W.Va. 6
95. Brandeis School of Law at the Univ. of Louisville Jim Chen Louisville, Ky. 5
95. Brigham Young Univ. Clark Law School Kevin Worthen Provo, Utah 5
95. Drake Univ. Law School David Walker Des Moines, Iowa 5
95. Golden Gate Univ. School of Law Frederic White San Francisco 5
95. Howard Univ. School of Law Kurt Schmoke Washington 5
95. Marquette Univ. Law School Joseph Kearney Milwaukee 5
95. Mercer Univ. George School of Law Daisy Hurst Floyd Macon, Ga. 5
95. Northeastern Univ. School of Law Emily Spieler Boston 5
95. Seattle Univ. School of Law Kellye Testy Seattle 5*
95. Seton Hall Univ. School of Law Patrick Hobbs Newark, N.J. 5
95. St. Mary's Univ. School of Law Bill Piatt San Antonio 5
95. Stetson Univ. College of Law Darby Dickerson Gulfport, Fla. 5
95. Univ. at Buffalo Law School R. Nils Olsen Jr. Buffalo, N.Y. 5
95. Univ. of North Dakota School of Law Paul LeBel Grand Forks, N.D. 5
95. Univ. of Oregon School of Law Margaret "Margie" Paris Eugene, Ore. 5
95. Washington and Lee Univ. School of Law Brian Murchison (Acting Dean) Lexington, Va. 5
95. William Mitchell College of Law Allen Easley St. Paul, Minn. 5
112. Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Law Gary Simson Cleveland 4
112. Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Geoffrey Mearns Cleveland 4
112. John Marshall Law School John Corkery (Acting Dean) Chicago 4
112. Loyola Univ. New Orleans College of Law Brian Bromberger New Orleans 4
112. Michigan State Univ. College of Law Terence Blackburn East Lansing, Mich. 4**
112. New York Law School Richard Matasar New York 4
112. Pace Univ. School of Law Stephen Friedman White Plains, N.Y. 4
112. Univ. of Detroit Mercy School of Law Mark Gordon Detroit 4
112. Univ. of Nebraska College of Law Steven Willborn Lincoln, Neb. 4
112. Wake Forest Univ. School of Law Robert Walsh Winston-Salem, N.C. 4
112. Willamette Univ. College of Law Symeon Symeonides Salem, Ore. 4
112. William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law Taylor Reveley Williamsburg, Va. 4
124. California Western School of Law Steven Smith San Diego 3
124. Creighton Univ. School of Law Patrick Borchers Omaha, Neb. 3
124. Gonzaga Univ. School of Law Earl Martin Spokane, Wash. 3
124. Hamline Univ. School of Law Jon Garon St. Paul, Minn. 3
124. Lewis & Clark Law School Lydia Loren (Interim Dean) Portland, Ore. 3
124. Univ. of Baltimore School of Law Gilbert Holmes Baltimore 3
124. Univ. of Connecticut School of Law Kurt Strasser (Interim Dean) Hartford, Conn. 3
124. Univ. of Maine School of Law Peter Pitegoff Portland, Maine 3
124. Univ. of Memphis Humphreys School of Law James Smoot Memphis, Tenn. 3
124. Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Law Mary Crossley Pittsburgh 3
124. Univ. of Richmond School of Law Rodney Smolla Richmond, Va. 3
124. Univ. of Tulsa College of Law Robert Butkin Tulsa, Okla. 3
124. Washburn Univ. School of Law William Rich (Interim Dean) Topeka, Kan. 3
124. Whittier Law School Neil Cogan Costa Mesa, Calif. 3
124. Widener Univ. School of Law Linda Ammons Wilmington, Del. 3
124. Yeshiva Univ. Cardozo School of Law David Rudenstine New York 3
140. Capital Univ. Law School Jack Guttenberg Columbus, Ohio 2
140. Faulkner Univ. Jones School of Law Charles Nelson Montgomery, Ala. 2
140. George Mason Univ. School of Law Daniel Polsby Arlington, Va. 2
140. North Carolina Central Univ. School of Law Raymond Pierce Durham, N.C. 2
140. Northern Illinois Univ. College of Law LeRoy Pernell DeKalb, Ill. 2
140. Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law Chuck Goldner Little Rock, Ark. 2
140. Univ. of Dayton School of Law Lisa Kloppenberg Dayton, Ohio 2
140. Univ. of South Dakota School of Law Barry Vickery Vermillion, S.D. 2
140. Univ. of Toledo College of Law Douglas Ray Toledo, Ohio 2
140. Western State Univ. College of Law Maryann Jones Fullerton, Calif. 2
150. Other 28
* Includes a graduate of the school of law at the Univ. of Puget Sound, which transferred to Seattle Univ. in 1994.
** Includes graduates of Detroit College of Law, an affiliate since 1995.
Lawdragon has published six guides to the nation's leading lawyers and judges, with some lawyers making more than one guide. We reported on where 2,342 of those lawyers went to law school. These are the results without any weighting for the number of law students who enroll in a given school, how long a given school has been educating lawyers or the size of its library. Just one question: Which schools produce the best lawyers?
A few more things to give Lawdragon's Leading Law Schools further context. Harvard is the biggest, the baddest, the best. They educate more students and have been doing it the longest. They still hold a stunning prominence in producing the nation's leading practitioners.
Lawdragon reports on lawyers nationwide, with a heavy emphasis on the states where there are the most practicing lawyers: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Florida and Massachusetts. Schools that produce the leading practitioners in those states thus show up in our ranking more prominently than in other assessments. That still shouldn't obscure the significant impact the University of Texas, Georgetown and UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall have in their markets. And while Columbia and NYU get plenty of recognition for the excellent legal education they provide, they have enormous impact in the nation's most important legal market, New York.
Finally, the plaintiffs' lawyers and judges. We've got a philosophy that they count too, which explains in part the placement of regional juggernauts like Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, University of Miami, UC Hastings and Fordham Law School in Lawdragon's Leading Law Schools. Bottom line: if you want to get great training to actually go practice law, you have a range of choices, some of which might surprise you.
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I find the rankings extremely useful. Thanks!
While knowing the absolute number of grads at these top law firms is useful for networking purposes, from a perspective law school applicants vantage, another useful information would be per capita placement for each law school at these top 500 law firms.
This information is extremely useful for each individual law student who wants to calculate her chances of landing a top law firm job in relation to her classmates. For example, if 5 people from Harvard apply to one of these top firms, only 2 will get it. Whereas at Yale, if 2 people apply to one of these jobs, 1 will land it. For an individual, it now seems that Yale is the better option in terms of job prospects, than Harvard.
So while youre at it, itd be nice to know the per capita placement at these law firms from each of the top law schools.
posted on 03/29/2007
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Lawdragon named Loyola Law School as one of the 25 Leading Law Schools.
Top Law Schools
Posted on March 9, 2007
We hear a lot of talk about which law schools are best.
And it occurred to us at Lawdragon that we had something to contribute to the discussion. You see, no other organization reports on which lawyers and judges are the crème of the crop, whether an appellate jurist in Alaska, a personal injury lawyer in Texas or a top dealmaker in New York. Because Lawdragon uniquely provides that intelligence, it seemed a reasonable question to ask.
Where did the nation's leading lawyers and judges go to law school?
Here is the Lawdragon 25 Leading Law Schools, based on where members of the Lawdragon 500s graduated law school. This represents a survey of 99 percent of the professionals who made our guides. Lawdragon is still seeking information from the remaining 1 percent, which could alter the results slightly.
School Location Grads
1. Harvard Law School Cambridge, Mass. 249
2. Yale Law School New Haven, Conn. 98
3. Columbia Law School New York 94
4. New York University School of Law New York 83
5. University of Texas School of Law Austin, Texas 70
6. Georgetown University Law Center Washington 67
6. UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Berkeley, Calif. 67
8. University of Chicago Law School Chicago 63
9. University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, Mich. 57
9. University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, Va. 57
11. UCLA School of Law Los Angeles 56
12. University of Pennsylvania Law School Philadelphia 50
13. Stanford Law School Palo Alto, Calif. 45
14. University of Southern California Gould School of Law Los Angeles 38
15. Northwestern University School of Law Chicago 35
16. George Washington University Law School Washington 32
17. Loyola Law School Los Angeles Los Angeles 30
18. University of Miami School of Law Miami 29
19. Duke University School of Law Durham, N.C. 28
19. UC Hastings College of the Law San Francisco 28
21. Boston University School of Law Boston 26
22. Fordham Law School New York 25
23. Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law Dallas 22
23. University of Florida Levin College of Law Gainesville, Fla. 22
25. Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, Tenn. 21
Lawdragon has published six guides to the nation's leading lawyers and judges, with some lawyers making more than one guide. We reported on where 2,317 of those lawyers went to law school and are still tracking down a few whose state bar associations fail to provide basic information about the legal education of lawyers and judges. These are the results without any weighting for the number of law students who enroll in a given school, how long a given school has been educating lawyers or the size of its library. Just one question: Which schools produce the best lawyers?
A few more things to give the Lawdragon 25 further context. Harvard is the biggest, the baddest, the best. They educate more students and have been doing it the longest. They still hold a stunning prominence in producing the nation's leading practitioners.
Lawdragon reports on lawyers nationwide, with a heavy emphasis on the states where there are the most practicing lawyers: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Florida and Massachusetts. Schools that produce the leading practitioners in those states thus show up in our ranking more prominently than in other assessments. That still shouldn't obscure the significant impact the University of Texas, Georgetown and UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall have in their markets. And while Columbia and NYU get plenty of recognition for the excellent legal education they provide, they have enormous impact in the nation's most important legal market, New York.
Finally, the plaintiffs' lawyers and judges. We've got a philosophy that they count too, which explains in part the placement of regional juggernauts like Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, University of Miami, UC Hastings and Fordham Law School in the Lawdragon 25. Bottom line: if you want to get great training to actually go practice law, you have a range of choices, some of which might surprise you.
We're eager for your feedback and comments on how Lawdragon can continue to add to the discussion about the best law schools.
Lawdragon Leading Law Schools
Posted on March 18, 2007
Lawdragon has finished its first-ever law school ranking! Earlier this month, we released our guide to the top 25 schools, based on where members of the Lawdragon 500s our popular guides to the nations leading lawyers and judges graduated law school. This week we break out our complete list of Lawdragon's Leading Law Schools. Keep in mind that some of the numbers have changed from our last chart, as we continued to find law school information for lawyers and judges who have not made the information readily available.
No other organization reports on which lawyers and judges are the crème of the crop, whether an appellate jurist in Alaska, a personal injury lawyer in Texas or a top dealmaker in New York. See how your school did on our Lawdragon guide and let us know what you think.
School Dean Location Grads
1. Harvard Law School Elena Kagan Cambridge, Mass. 250
2. Yale Law School Harold Hongju Koh New Haven, Conn. 98
3. Columbia Law School David Schizer New York 95
4. New York Univ. School of Law Richard Revesz New York 83
5. Univ. of Texas School of Law Lawrence Sager Austin, Texas 72
6. Georgetown Univ. Law Center T. Alexander Aleinikoff Washington 69
7. UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Christopher Edley Jr. Berkeley, Calif. 67
8. Univ. of Chicago Law School Saul Levmore Chicago 63
9. Univ. of Virginia School of Law John Jeffries Charlottesville, Va. 59
10. Univ. of Michigan Law School Evan Caminker Ann Arbor, Mich. 57
11. UCLA School of Law Michael Schill Los Angeles 56
12. Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School Michael Fitts Philadelphia 50
13. Stanford Law School Larry Kramer Palo Alto, Calif. 45
14. Univ. of Southern California Gould School of Law Edward McCaffery Los Angeles 38
15. Northwestern Univ. School of Law David Van Zandt Chicago 35
16. George Washington Univ. Law School Frederick Lawrence Washington 33
17. Loyola Law School Los Angeles David Burcham Los Angeles 30
18. UC Hastings College of the Law Nell Jessup Newton San Francisco 29
18. Univ. of Miami School of Law Dennis Lynch Miami 29
20. Duke Univ. School of Law Katharine Bartlett Durham, N.C. 28
21. Fordham Law School William Treanor New York 27
22. Boston Univ. School of Law Maureen O'Rourke Boston 26
23. Univ. of Florida Levin College of Law Robert Jerry Gainesville, Fla. 23
24. Southern Methodist Univ. Dedman School of Law John Attanasio Dallas 22
25. Vanderbilt Univ. Law School Edward Rubin Nashville, Tenn. 21
26. Boston College Law School John Garvey Boston 20
26. Cornell Law School Stewart Schwab Ithaca, N.Y. 20
26. St. John's Univ. School of Law Mary Daly Queens, N.Y. 20
26. Tulane Law School Lawrence Ponoroff New Orleans 20
30. Univ. of Houston Law Center Ray Nimmer Houston 17
31. Brooklyn Law School Joan Wexler Brooklyn, N.Y. 16
31. Rutgers School of Law Stuart Deutsch Newark, N.J. 16
33. Temple Univ. Beasley School of Law Robert Reinstein Philadelphia 15
33. Univ. of Mississippi School of Law Samuel Davis University, Miss. 15
33. Wayne State Univ. Law School Frank Wu Detroit 15
36. Baylor Univ. Law School Bradley Toben Waco, Texas 14
36. Notre Dame Law School Patricia O'Hara Notre Dame, Ind. 14
36. Ohio State Univ. Moritz College of Law Nancy Rogers Columbus, Ohio 14
36. Univ. of Minnesota Law School Guy-Uriel Charles/Fred Morrison Minneapolis 14
36. Univ. of North Carolina School of Law John Charles Boger Chapel Hill, N.C. 14
36. Univ. of Utah Quinney College of Law Hiram Chodosh Salt Lake City 14
42. American Univ. Washington College of Law Claudio Grossman Washington 13
42. Cumberland School of Law at Samford Univ. John Carroll Birmingham, Ala. 13
44. Emory Univ. School of Law David Partlett Atlanta 12
44. Univ. of Illinois College of Law Heidi Hurd Urbana-Champaign, Ill. 12
46. DePaul Univ. College of Law Glen Weissenberger Chicago 11
46. Suffolk Univ. Law School Robert Smith Boston 11
46. Univ. of Cincinnati College of Law Louis Bilionis Cincinatti 11
46. Univ. of New Mexico School of Law Suellyn Scarnecchia Albuquerque, N.M. 11
46. Univ. of San Diego School of Law Kevin Cole San Diego 11
46. Univ. of Wisconsin Law School Kenneth Davis Jr. Madison, Wis. 11
46. Villanova Univ. School of Law Mark Sargent Villanova, Pa. 11
53. Catholic Univ. of America Columbus School of Law Veryl Miles Washington 10
53. Florida State Univ. College of Law Donald Weidner Tallahassee, Fla. 10
53. Loyola Univ. Chicago School of Law David Yellen Chicago 10
53. Santa Clara Univ. School of Law Donald Polden Santa Clara, Calif. 10
53. UC Davis King Hall School of Law Rex Perschbacher Davis, Calif. 10
53. Univ. of Arkansas School of Law Cyndi Nance Fayetteville, Ark. 10
53. Univ. of Kansas School of Law Gail Agrawal Lawrence, Kan. 10
53. Univ. of Missouri Kansas City School of Law Ellen Suni Kansas City, Mo. 10
53. Univ. of South Carolina School of Law Walter Pratt Jr. Columbia, S.C. 10
62. Univ. of Alabama School of Law Kenneth Randall Tuscaloosa, Ala. 9
62. Univ. of Arizona Rogers College of Law Toni Massaro Tucson, Ariz. 9
62. Univ. of Kentucky College of Law Allan Vestal Lexington, Ky. 9
65. Albany Law School Thomas Guernsey Albany, N.Y. 8
65. Indiana Univ. School of Law-Indianapolis Susanah M. Mead (Interim Dean) Bloomington, Ind. 8
65. Penn State Dickinson School of Law Philip McConnaughay Carlisle, Pa. 8
65. Texas Tech Univ. School of Law Walter Huffman Lubbock, Texas 8
65. Univ. of Colorado Law School David Getches Boulder, Colo. 8
65. Univ. of Georgia School of Law Rebecca White Athens, Ga. 8
65. Univ. of Maryland School of Law Karen Rothenberg Baltimore 8
65. Univ. of Montana School of Law E. Edwin Eck Missoula, Mont. 8
65. Univ. of Oklahoma College of Law Andrew Coats Norman, Okla. 8
65. Univ. of Washington School of Law W.H. "Joe" Knight Jr. Seattle 8
75. Hofstra Univ. School of Law Nora Demleitner (Interim Dean) Hempstead, N.Y. 7
75. Louisiana State Univ. Law Center John Costonis (Chancellor) Baton Rouge, La. 7
75. South Texas College of Law James Alfini Houston 7
75. St. Louis Univ. School of Law Jeffrey Lewis St. Louis 7
75. Univ. of San Francisco School of Law Jeffrey Brand San Francisco 7
75. Univ. of Wyoming College of Law Jerry Parkinson Laramie, Wyo. 7
81. Arizona State Univ. O'Connor College of Law Patricia White Tempe, Ariz. 6
81. Chicago-Kent College of Law Harold Krent Chicago 6
81. Indiana Univ. School of Law-Bloomington Lauren Robel Bloomington, Ind. 6
81. Pepperdine Univ. School of Law Kenneth Starr Malibu, Calif. 6
81. Southwestern Univ. School of Law Bryant Garth Los Angeles 6
81. Syracuse Univ. College of Law Hannah Arterian Syracuse, N.Y. 6
81. Univ. of Denver Sturm College of Law Jose Roberto Juarez Jr. Denver 6
81. Univ. of Idaho College of Law Don Burnett Moscow, Idaho 6
81. Univ. of Iowa College of Law Carolyn Jones Iowa City, Iowa 6
81. Univ. of Missouri Columbia School of Law R. Lawrence Dessem Columbia, Mo. 6
81. Univ. of Tennessee College of Law John Sobieski Jr. (Interim Dean) Knoxville, Tenn. 6
81. Univ. of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker Sacramento, Calif. 6
81. Washington Univ. in St. Louis School of Law Kent Syverud St. Louis 6
81. West Virginia Univ. College of Law John Fisher II Morgantown, W.Va. 6
95. Brandeis School of Law at the Univ. of Louisville Jim Chen Louisville, Ky. 5
95. Brigham Young Univ. Clark Law School Kevin Worthen Provo, Utah 5
95. Drake Univ. Law School David Walker Des Moines, Iowa 5
95. Golden Gate Univ. School of Law Frederic White San Francisco 5
95. Howard Univ. School of Law Kurt Schmoke Washington 5
95. Marquette Univ. Law School Joseph Kearney Milwaukee 5
95. Mercer Univ. George School of Law Daisy Hurst Floyd Macon, Ga. 5
95. Northeastern Univ. School of Law Emily Spieler Boston 5
95. Seattle Univ. School of Law Kellye Testy Seattle 5*
95. Seton Hall Univ. School of Law Patrick Hobbs Newark, N.J. 5
95. St. Mary's Univ. School of Law Bill Piatt San Antonio 5
95. Stetson Univ. College of Law Darby Dickerson Gulfport, Fla. 5
95. Univ. at Buffalo Law School R. Nils Olsen Jr. Buffalo, N.Y. 5
95. Univ. of North Dakota School of Law Paul LeBel Grand Forks, N.D. 5
95. Univ. of Oregon School of Law Margaret "Margie" Paris Eugene, Ore. 5
95. Washington and Lee Univ. School of Law Brian Murchison (Acting Dean) Lexington, Va. 5
95. William Mitchell College of Law Allen Easley St. Paul, Minn. 5
112. Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Law Gary Simson Cleveland 4
112. Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Geoffrey Mearns Cleveland 4
112. John Marshall Law School John Corkery (Acting Dean) Chicago 4
112. Loyola Univ. New Orleans College of Law Brian Bromberger New Orleans 4
112. Michigan State Univ. College of Law Terence Blackburn East Lansing, Mich. 4**
112. New York Law School Richard Matasar New York 4
112. Pace Univ. School of Law Stephen Friedman White Plains, N.Y. 4
112. Univ. of Detroit Mercy School of Law Mark Gordon Detroit 4
112. Univ. of Nebraska College of Law Steven Willborn Lincoln, Neb. 4
112. Wake Forest Univ. School of Law Robert Walsh Winston-Salem, N.C. 4
112. Willamette Univ. College of Law Symeon Symeonides Salem, Ore. 4
112. William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law Taylor Reveley Williamsburg, Va. 4
124. California Western School of Law Steven Smith San Diego 3
124. Creighton Univ. School of Law Patrick Borchers Omaha, Neb. 3
124. Gonzaga Univ. School of Law Earl Martin Spokane, Wash. 3
124. Hamline Univ. School of Law Jon Garon St. Paul, Minn. 3
124. Lewis & Clark Law School Lydia Loren (Interim Dean) Portland, Ore. 3
124. Univ. of Baltimore School of Law Gilbert Holmes Baltimore 3
124. Univ. of Connecticut School of Law Kurt Strasser (Interim Dean) Hartford, Conn. 3
124. Univ. of Maine School of Law Peter Pitegoff Portland, Maine 3
124. Univ. of Memphis Humphreys School of Law James Smoot Memphis, Tenn. 3
124. Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Law Mary Crossley Pittsburgh 3
124. Univ. of Richmond School of Law Rodney Smolla Richmond, Va. 3
124. Univ. of Tulsa College of Law Robert Butkin Tulsa, Okla. 3
124. Washburn Univ. School of Law William Rich (Interim Dean) Topeka, Kan. 3
124. Whittier Law School Neil Cogan Costa Mesa, Calif. 3
124. Widener Univ. School of Law Linda Ammons Wilmington, Del. 3
124. Yeshiva Univ. Cardozo School of Law David Rudenstine New York 3
140. Capital Univ. Law School Jack Guttenberg Columbus, Ohio 2
140. Faulkner Univ. Jones School of Law Charles Nelson Montgomery, Ala. 2
140. George Mason Univ. School of Law Daniel Polsby Arlington, Va. 2
140. North Carolina Central Univ. School of Law Raymond Pierce Durham, N.C. 2
140. Northern Illinois Univ. College of Law LeRoy Pernell DeKalb, Ill. 2
140. Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law Chuck Goldner Little Rock, Ark. 2
140. Univ. of Dayton School of Law Lisa Kloppenberg Dayton, Ohio 2
140. Univ. of South Dakota School of Law Barry Vickery Vermillion, S.D. 2
140. Univ. of Toledo College of Law Douglas Ray Toledo, Ohio 2
140. Western State Univ. College of Law Maryann Jones Fullerton, Calif. 2
150. Other 28
* Includes a graduate of the school of law at the Univ. of Puget Sound, which transferred to Seattle Univ. in 1994.
** Includes graduates of Detroit College of Law, an affiliate since 1995.
Lawdragon has published six guides to the nation's leading lawyers and judges, with some lawyers making more than one guide. We reported on where 2,342 of those lawyers went to law school. These are the results without any weighting for the number of law students who enroll in a given school, how long a given school has been educating lawyers or the size of its library. Just one question: Which schools produce the best lawyers?
A few more things to give Lawdragon's Leading Law Schools further context. Harvard is the biggest, the baddest, the best. They educate more students and have been doing it the longest. They still hold a stunning prominence in producing the nation's leading practitioners.
Lawdragon reports on lawyers nationwide, with a heavy emphasis on the states where there are the most practicing lawyers: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Florida and Massachusetts. Schools that produce the leading practitioners in those states thus show up in our ranking more prominently than in other assessments. That still shouldn't obscure the significant impact the University of Texas, Georgetown and UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall have in their markets. And while Columbia and NYU get plenty of recognition for the excellent legal education they provide, they have enormous impact in the nation's most important legal market, New York.
Finally, the plaintiffs' lawyers and judges. We've got a philosophy that they count too, which explains in part the placement of regional juggernauts like Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, University of Miami, UC Hastings and Fordham Law School in Lawdragon's Leading Law Schools. Bottom line: if you want to get great training to actually go practice law, you have a range of choices, some of which might surprise you.
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I find the rankings extremely useful. Thanks!
While knowing the absolute number of grads at these top law firms is useful for networking purposes, from a perspective law school applicants vantage, another useful information would be per capita placement for each law school at these top 500 law firms.
This information is extremely useful for each individual law student who wants to calculate her chances of landing a top law firm job in relation to her classmates. For example, if 5 people from Harvard apply to one of these top firms, only 2 will get it. Whereas at Yale, if 2 people apply to one of these jobs, 1 will land it. For an individual, it now seems that Yale is the better option in terms of job prospects, than Harvard.
So while youre at it, itd be nice to know the per capita placement at these law firms from each of the top law schools.
posted on 03/29/2007
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Lawdragon named Loyola Law School as one of the 25 Leading Law Schools.
Top Law Schools
Posted on March 9, 2007
We hear a lot of talk about which law schools are best.
And it occurred to us at Lawdragon that we had something to contribute to the discussion. You see, no other organization reports on which lawyers and judges are the crème of the crop, whether an appellate jurist in Alaska, a personal injury lawyer in Texas or a top dealmaker in New York. Because Lawdragon uniquely provides that intelligence, it seemed a reasonable question to ask.
Where did the nation's leading lawyers and judges go to law school?
Here is the Lawdragon 25 Leading Law Schools, based on where members of the Lawdragon 500s graduated law school. This represents a survey of 99 percent of the professionals who made our guides. Lawdragon is still seeking information from the remaining 1 percent, which could alter the results slightly.
School Location Grads
1. Harvard Law School Cambridge, Mass. 249
2. Yale Law School New Haven, Conn. 98
3. Columbia Law School New York 94
4. New York University School of Law New York 83
5. University of Texas School of Law Austin, Texas 70
6. Georgetown University Law Center Washington 67
6. UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Berkeley, Calif. 67
8. University of Chicago Law School Chicago 63
9. University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, Mich. 57
9. University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, Va. 57
11. UCLA School of Law Los Angeles 56
12. University of Pennsylvania Law School Philadelphia 50
13. Stanford Law School Palo Alto, Calif. 45
14. University of Southern California Gould School of Law Los Angeles 38
15. Northwestern University School of Law Chicago 35
16. George Washington University Law School Washington 32
17. Loyola Law School Los Angeles Los Angeles 30
18. University of Miami School of Law Miami 29
19. Duke University School of Law Durham, N.C. 28
19. UC Hastings College of the Law San Francisco 28
21. Boston University School of Law Boston 26
22. Fordham Law School New York 25
23. Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law Dallas 22
23. University of Florida Levin College of Law Gainesville, Fla. 22
25. Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, Tenn. 21
Lawdragon has published six guides to the nation's leading lawyers and judges, with some lawyers making more than one guide. We reported on where 2,317 of those lawyers went to law school and are still tracking down a few whose state bar associations fail to provide basic information about the legal education of lawyers and judges. These are the results without any weighting for the number of law students who enroll in a given school, how long a given school has been educating lawyers or the size of its library. Just one question: Which schools produce the best lawyers?
A few more things to give the Lawdragon 25 further context. Harvard is the biggest, the baddest, the best. They educate more students and have been doing it the longest. They still hold a stunning prominence in producing the nation's leading practitioners.
Lawdragon reports on lawyers nationwide, with a heavy emphasis on the states where there are the most practicing lawyers: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Florida and Massachusetts. Schools that produce the leading practitioners in those states thus show up in our ranking more prominently than in other assessments. That still shouldn't obscure the significant impact the University of Texas, Georgetown and UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall have in their markets. And while Columbia and NYU get plenty of recognition for the excellent legal education they provide, they have enormous impact in the nation's most important legal market, New York.
Finally, the plaintiffs' lawyers and judges. We've got a philosophy that they count too, which explains in part the placement of regional juggernauts like Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, University of Miami, UC Hastings and Fordham Law School in the Lawdragon 25. Bottom line: if you want to get great training to actually go practice law, you have a range of choices, some of which might surprise you.
We're eager for your feedback and comments on how Lawdragon can continue to add to the discussion about the best law schools.
Lawdragon Leading Law Schools
Posted on March 18, 2007
Lawdragon has finished its first-ever law school ranking! Earlier this month, we released our guide to the top 25 schools, based on where members of the Lawdragon 500s our popular guides to the nations leading lawyers and judges graduated law school. This week we break out our complete list of Lawdragon's Leading Law Schools. Keep in mind that some of the numbers have changed from our last chart, as we continued to find law school information for lawyers and judges who have not made the information readily available.
No other organization reports on which lawyers and judges are the crème of the crop, whether an appellate jurist in Alaska, a personal injury lawyer in Texas or a top dealmaker in New York. See how your school did on our Lawdragon guide and let us know what you think.
School Dean Location Grads
1. Harvard Law School Elena Kagan Cambridge, Mass. 250
2. Yale Law School Harold Hongju Koh New Haven, Conn. 98
3. Columbia Law School David Schizer New York 95
4. New York Univ. School of Law Richard Revesz New York 83
5. Univ. of Texas School of Law Lawrence Sager Austin, Texas 72
6. Georgetown Univ. Law Center T. Alexander Aleinikoff Washington 69
7. UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Christopher Edley Jr. Berkeley, Calif. 67
8. Univ. of Chicago Law School Saul Levmore Chicago 63
9. Univ. of Virginia School of Law John Jeffries Charlottesville, Va. 59
10. Univ. of Michigan Law School Evan Caminker Ann Arbor, Mich. 57
11. UCLA School of Law Michael Schill Los Angeles 56
12. Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School Michael Fitts Philadelphia 50
13. Stanford Law School Larry Kramer Palo Alto, Calif. 45
14. Univ. of Southern California Gould School of Law Edward McCaffery Los Angeles 38
15. Northwestern Univ. School of Law David Van Zandt Chicago 35
16. George Washington Univ. Law School Frederick Lawrence Washington 33
17. Loyola Law School Los Angeles David Burcham Los Angeles 30
18. UC Hastings College of the Law Nell Jessup Newton San Francisco 29
18. Univ. of Miami School of Law Dennis Lynch Miami 29
20. Duke Univ. School of Law Katharine Bartlett Durham, N.C. 28
21. Fordham Law School William Treanor New York 27
22. Boston Univ. School of Law Maureen O'Rourke Boston 26
23. Univ. of Florida Levin College of Law Robert Jerry Gainesville, Fla. 23
24. Southern Methodist Univ. Dedman School of Law John Attanasio Dallas 22
25. Vanderbilt Univ. Law School Edward Rubin Nashville, Tenn. 21
26. Boston College Law School John Garvey Boston 20
26. Cornell Law School Stewart Schwab Ithaca, N.Y. 20
26. St. John's Univ. School of Law Mary Daly Queens, N.Y. 20
26. Tulane Law School Lawrence Ponoroff New Orleans 20
30. Univ. of Houston Law Center Ray Nimmer Houston 17
31. Brooklyn Law School Joan Wexler Brooklyn, N.Y. 16
31. Rutgers School of Law Stuart Deutsch Newark, N.J. 16
33. Temple Univ. Beasley School of Law Robert Reinstein Philadelphia 15
33. Univ. of Mississippi School of Law Samuel Davis University, Miss. 15
33. Wayne State Univ. Law School Frank Wu Detroit 15
36. Baylor Univ. Law School Bradley Toben Waco, Texas 14
36. Notre Dame Law School Patricia O'Hara Notre Dame, Ind. 14
36. Ohio State Univ. Moritz College of Law Nancy Rogers Columbus, Ohio 14
36. Univ. of Minnesota Law School Guy-Uriel Charles/Fred Morrison Minneapolis 14
36. Univ. of North Carolina School of Law John Charles Boger Chapel Hill, N.C. 14
36. Univ. of Utah Quinney College of Law Hiram Chodosh Salt Lake City 14
42. American Univ. Washington College of Law Claudio Grossman Washington 13
42. Cumberland School of Law at Samford Univ. John Carroll Birmingham, Ala. 13
44. Emory Univ. School of Law David Partlett Atlanta 12
44. Univ. of Illinois College of Law Heidi Hurd Urbana-Champaign, Ill. 12
46. DePaul Univ. College of Law Glen Weissenberger Chicago 11
46. Suffolk Univ. Law School Robert Smith Boston 11
46. Univ. of Cincinnati College of Law Louis Bilionis Cincinatti 11
46. Univ. of New Mexico School of Law Suellyn Scarnecchia Albuquerque, N.M. 11
46. Univ. of San Diego School of Law Kevin Cole San Diego 11
46. Univ. of Wisconsin Law School Kenneth Davis Jr. Madison, Wis. 11
46. Villanova Univ. School of Law Mark Sargent Villanova, Pa. 11
53. Catholic Univ. of America Columbus School of Law Veryl Miles Washington 10
53. Florida State Univ. College of Law Donald Weidner Tallahassee, Fla. 10
53. Loyola Univ. Chicago School of Law David Yellen Chicago 10
53. Santa Clara Univ. School of Law Donald Polden Santa Clara, Calif. 10
53. UC Davis King Hall School of Law Rex Perschbacher Davis, Calif. 10
53. Univ. of Arkansas School of Law Cyndi Nance Fayetteville, Ark. 10
53. Univ. of Kansas School of Law Gail Agrawal Lawrence, Kan. 10
53. Univ. of Missouri Kansas City School of Law Ellen Suni Kansas City, Mo. 10
53. Univ. of South Carolina School of Law Walter Pratt Jr. Columbia, S.C. 10
62. Univ. of Alabama School of Law Kenneth Randall Tuscaloosa, Ala. 9
62. Univ. of Arizona Rogers College of Law Toni Massaro Tucson, Ariz. 9
62. Univ. of Kentucky College of Law Allan Vestal Lexington, Ky. 9
65. Albany Law School Thomas Guernsey Albany, N.Y. 8
65. Indiana Univ. School of Law-Indianapolis Susanah M. Mead (Interim Dean) Bloomington, Ind. 8
65. Penn State Dickinson School of Law Philip McConnaughay Carlisle, Pa. 8
65. Texas Tech Univ. School of Law Walter Huffman Lubbock, Texas 8
65. Univ. of Colorado Law School David Getches Boulder, Colo. 8
65. Univ. of Georgia School of Law Rebecca White Athens, Ga. 8
65. Univ. of Maryland School of Law Karen Rothenberg Baltimore 8
65. Univ. of Montana School of Law E. Edwin Eck Missoula, Mont. 8
65. Univ. of Oklahoma College of Law Andrew Coats Norman, Okla. 8
65. Univ. of Washington School of Law W.H. "Joe" Knight Jr. Seattle 8
75. Hofstra Univ. School of Law Nora Demleitner (Interim Dean) Hempstead, N.Y. 7
75. Louisiana State Univ. Law Center John Costonis (Chancellor) Baton Rouge, La. 7
75. South Texas College of Law James Alfini Houston 7
75. St. Louis Univ. School of Law Jeffrey Lewis St. Louis 7
75. Univ. of San Francisco School of Law Jeffrey Brand San Francisco 7
75. Univ. of Wyoming College of Law Jerry Parkinson Laramie, Wyo. 7
81. Arizona State Univ. O'Connor College of Law Patricia White Tempe, Ariz. 6
81. Chicago-Kent College of Law Harold Krent Chicago 6
81. Indiana Univ. School of Law-Bloomington Lauren Robel Bloomington, Ind. 6
81. Pepperdine Univ. School of Law Kenneth Starr Malibu, Calif. 6
81. Southwestern Univ. School of Law Bryant Garth Los Angeles 6
81. Syracuse Univ. College of Law Hannah Arterian Syracuse, N.Y. 6
81. Univ. of Denver Sturm College of Law Jose Roberto Juarez Jr. Denver 6
81. Univ. of Idaho College of Law Don Burnett Moscow, Idaho 6
81. Univ. of Iowa College of Law Carolyn Jones Iowa City, Iowa 6
81. Univ. of Missouri Columbia School of Law R. Lawrence Dessem Columbia, Mo. 6
81. Univ. of Tennessee College of Law John Sobieski Jr. (Interim Dean) Knoxville, Tenn. 6
81. Univ. of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker Sacramento, Calif. 6
81. Washington Univ. in St. Louis School of Law Kent Syverud St. Louis 6
81. West Virginia Univ. College of Law John Fisher II Morgantown, W.Va. 6
95. Brandeis School of Law at the Univ. of Louisville Jim Chen Louisville, Ky. 5
95. Brigham Young Univ. Clark Law School Kevin Worthen Provo, Utah 5
95. Drake Univ. Law School David Walker Des Moines, Iowa 5
95. Golden Gate Univ. School of Law Frederic White San Francisco 5
95. Howard Univ. School of Law Kurt Schmoke Washington 5
95. Marquette Univ. Law School Joseph Kearney Milwaukee 5
95. Mercer Univ. George School of Law Daisy Hurst Floyd Macon, Ga. 5
95. Northeastern Univ. School of Law Emily Spieler Boston 5
95. Seattle Univ. School of Law Kellye Testy Seattle 5*
95. Seton Hall Univ. School of Law Patrick Hobbs Newark, N.J. 5
95. St. Mary's Univ. School of Law Bill Piatt San Antonio 5
95. Stetson Univ. College of Law Darby Dickerson Gulfport, Fla. 5
95. Univ. at Buffalo Law School R. Nils Olsen Jr. Buffalo, N.Y. 5
95. Univ. of North Dakota School of Law Paul LeBel Grand Forks, N.D. 5
95. Univ. of Oregon School of Law Margaret "Margie" Paris Eugene, Ore. 5
95. Washington and Lee Univ. School of Law Brian Murchison (Acting Dean) Lexington, Va. 5
95. William Mitchell College of Law Allen Easley St. Paul, Minn. 5
112. Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Law Gary Simson Cleveland 4
112. Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Geoffrey Mearns Cleveland 4
112. John Marshall Law School John Corkery (Acting Dean) Chicago 4
112. Loyola Univ. New Orleans College of Law Brian Bromberger New Orleans 4
112. Michigan State Univ. College of Law Terence Blackburn East Lansing, Mich. 4**
112. New York Law School Richard Matasar New York 4
112. Pace Univ. School of Law Stephen Friedman White Plains, N.Y. 4
112. Univ. of Detroit Mercy School of Law Mark Gordon Detroit 4
112. Univ. of Nebraska College of Law Steven Willborn Lincoln, Neb. 4
112. Wake Forest Univ. School of Law Robert Walsh Winston-Salem, N.C. 4
112. Willamette Univ. College of Law Symeon Symeonides Salem, Ore. 4
112. William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law Taylor Reveley Williamsburg, Va. 4
124. California Western School of Law Steven Smith San Diego 3
124. Creighton Univ. School of Law Patrick Borchers Omaha, Neb. 3
124. Gonzaga Univ. School of Law Earl Martin Spokane, Wash. 3
124. Hamline Univ. School of Law Jon Garon St. Paul, Minn. 3
124. Lewis & Clark Law School Lydia Loren (Interim Dean) Portland, Ore. 3
124. Univ. of Baltimore School of Law Gilbert Holmes Baltimore 3
124. Univ. of Connecticut School of Law Kurt Strasser (Interim Dean) Hartford, Conn. 3
124. Univ. of Maine School of Law Peter Pitegoff Portland, Maine 3
124. Univ. of Memphis Humphreys School of Law James Smoot Memphis, Tenn. 3
124. Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Law Mary Crossley Pittsburgh 3
124. Univ. of Richmond School of Law Rodney Smolla Richmond, Va. 3
124. Univ. of Tulsa College of Law Robert Butkin Tulsa, Okla. 3
124. Washburn Univ. School of Law William Rich (Interim Dean) Topeka, Kan. 3
124. Whittier Law School Neil Cogan Costa Mesa, Calif. 3
124. Widener Univ. School of Law Linda Ammons Wilmington, Del. 3
124. Yeshiva Univ. Cardozo School of Law David Rudenstine New York 3
140. Capital Univ. Law School Jack Guttenberg Columbus, Ohio 2
140. Faulkner Univ. Jones School of Law Charles Nelson Montgomery, Ala. 2
140. George Mason Univ. School of Law Daniel Polsby Arlington, Va. 2
140. North Carolina Central Univ. School of Law Raymond Pierce Durham, N.C. 2
140. Northern Illinois Univ. College of Law LeRoy Pernell DeKalb, Ill. 2
140. Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law Chuck Goldner Little Rock, Ark. 2
140. Univ. of Dayton School of Law Lisa Kloppenberg Dayton, Ohio 2
140. Univ. of South Dakota School of Law Barry Vickery Vermillion, S.D. 2
140. Univ. of Toledo College of Law Douglas Ray Toledo, Ohio 2
140. Western State Univ. College of Law Maryann Jones Fullerton, Calif. 2
150. Other 28
* Includes a graduate of the school of law at the Univ. of Puget Sound, which transferred to Seattle Univ. in 1994.
** Includes graduates of Detroit College of Law, an affiliate since 1995.
Lawdragon has published six guides to the nation's leading lawyers and judges, with some lawyers making more than one guide. We reported on where 2,342 of those lawyers went to law school. These are the results without any weighting for the number of law students who enroll in a given school, how long a given school has been educating lawyers or the size of its library. Just one question: Which schools produce the best lawyers?
A few more things to give Lawdragon's Leading Law Schools further context. Harvard is the biggest, the baddest, the best. They educate more students and have been doing it the longest. They still hold a stunning prominence in producing the nation's leading practitioners.
Lawdragon reports on lawyers nationwide, with a heavy emphasis on the states where there are the most practicing lawyers: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Florida and Massachusetts. Schools that produce the leading practitioners in those states thus show up in our ranking more prominently than in other assessments. That still shouldn't obscure the significant impact the University of Texas, Georgetown and UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall have in their markets. And while Columbia and NYU get plenty of recognition for the excellent legal education they provide, they have enormous impact in the nation's most important legal market, New York.
Finally, the plaintiffs' lawyers and judges. We've got a philosophy that they count too, which explains in part the placement of regional juggernauts like Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, University of Miami, UC Hastings and Fordham Law School in Lawdragon's Leading Law Schools. Bottom line: if you want to get great training to actually go practice law, you have a range of choices, some of which might surprise you.
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I find the rankings extremely useful. Thanks!
While knowing the absolute number of grads at these top law firms is useful for networking purposes, from a perspective law school applicants vantage, another useful information would be per capita placement for each law school at these top 500 law firms.
This information is extremely useful for each individual law student who wants to calculate her chances of landing a top law firm job in relation to her classmates. For example, if 5 people from Harvard apply to one of these top firms, only 2 will get it. Whereas at Yale, if 2 people apply to one of these jobs, 1 will land it. For an individual, it now seems that Yale is the better option in terms of job prospects, than Harvard.
So while youre at it, itd be nice to know the per capita placement at these law firms from each of the top law schools.
posted on 03/29/2007
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