Dive Brief:
- According to the National Law Journal’s annual survey, Columbia Law School had the greatest percentage of its graduates hired as first-year associates at the 250 largest law firms in the U.S. in 2014, with the University of Pennsylvania at No. 2.
- The law schools with the most graduates promoted to partner from associate at those firms were Harvard Law School and the Georgetown University Law Center.
- Overall, a greater percentage of law school graduates in 2014 were hired at the 250 largest law firms, even though those law firms hired the same number of grads, because the Class of 2014 was smaller than in 2013.
Dive Insight:
For the 50 law schools with the most 2014 graduates hired by the top 250 law firms, more than 29% of their grads were hired, up slightly from 2013. Following Columbia and Penn, the top 10 law schools ranked by percentage of 2014 grads hired were the University of Chicago Law School, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Cornell Law School, Northwestern University Law School, Duke Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and Stanford Law School.