Fifty-five percent of 2007 law graduates from the 20 top-ranked law schools took jobs with firms in the NLJ 250 – up from 51.6% in 2006.
In 2007, the top 20 schools sent 3,511 of their graduates to work as first-year associates at NLJ 250 law firms. Total graduates among those schools in 2007 equaled 6,395. In 2006, the 20 go-to law schools sent 3,561 to NLJ 250 law firms out of 6,902 graduates.
Two schools dropped four spots compared with the ranking for 2006 graduates.
This year's list of go-to schools was compiled using information from the National Law Journal's annual survey of the largest 250
The school providing the most first-year associates to the top 20 NLJ 250 law firms was New York University School of Law (NYU), which sent 51 of its 2007 graduates to those firms.
The law school with the highest concentration of graduates going to one firm was
DLA Piper – the nation's largest law firm, with 3,623 lawyers – hired more graduates from 13th-placed
Jones Day brought aboard graduates from the most schools with 58, while Baker & McKenzie recruited from the fewest schools - just 13 - for its
For more information on the survey of the NLJ 250 law schools, click here.
