Some law schools outside T14 still send many grads to the nation’s top-grossing firms

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By Debra Cassens Weiss

November 23, 2021, 12:55 pm CST

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Two law schools outside the T14 have landed on a list of schools with the highest percentage of alumni going to the nation’s 10 highest-grossing law firms.

The schools are the University of Texas School of Law, ranked No. 8 on a list compiled by GradReports, and Notre Dame Law School, ranked No. 9, Law.com reports.

Reuters also has coverage.

Yale, Stanford and Harvard law schools did not make GradReports’ top 10, although they are the three top-ranked law schools by U.S. News & World Report.

GradReports, a college rankings and research website, used LinkedIn data for its list. It looked at alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2021 from the 50 top-ranked law schools and are now working at the 10 highest-grossing law firms.

The law schools sending the most recent law graduates to top 10 firms were:

The University of Chicago Law School, with 10.93% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

The University of Virginia School of Law, with 10.39% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

The Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, with 9.04% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

The University of Michigan Law School, with 7.97% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

Cornell Law School, with 7.86% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, with 7.85% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

Columbia Law School, with 7.48% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

The University of Texas School of Law, with 6.33% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

Notre Dame Law School, with 6.12% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

The Duke University School of Law, with 6.06% of recent alumni at top 10 firms

Law.com compiles a different list of law schools sending recent graduates to the nation’s 100 largest law firms. The top five on its list are Columbia Law School, the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Cornell Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the New York University School of Law.

Law.com has noted that some law schools have high numbers of graduates who take clerkships with the federal judiciary, which puts them at a disadvantage in its list measuring BigLaw placement for schools’ most recent grads.

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