Law School Rankings

The following is a compilation of Law School rankings from various sources.


U.S. News (March 2012)  
Overall: 12th
U.S. News Specialty Rankings:  
Trial Advocacy: 8th
Clinical Training: 12th
Tax Law: 4th
Dispute Resolution: 12th
International Law: 17th
   
Princeton Review (October 2011)  
Best Career Prospects: 1st (ranked 1st 5 of the last 7 yrs)
Toughest to Get Into: 9th
Best Quality of Life: 5th
Best Classroom Experience: 5th
   
National Law Journal (March 2012)  
Percentage of Graduates Hired by NLJ 250 firms: 2nd
   
Vault (March 2008)  
Top 25 Law Schools: 9th
   
Brian Leiter Rankings (Updated in 2010)  
Top Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact (2010): 8th
Total Supreme Court Clerks 2000-2008 terms: 10th
Per Capita Supreme Court Clerkships: 9th
Percentage of Federal Appellate Court Clerkships for 2008-09: 5th
Student Quality (2009): 8th
Per Capita Placement in Law Teaching 2003-2007: 12th
Success Rate of Law School Graduates on the Teaching Market 2006-2008: 6th
Top 15 Schools from Which the Most "Prestigious" Law Firms
Hire New Lawyers (2008):		 9th
Top Producers of Law Teachers at the Leading Law Schools Since 1995: 11th
   
Super Lawyers (November 2009)  
Number of "Super Lawyers": 18th* (12th among the top 14 law schools as ranked by U.S. News)
Law School 100 (August 2009)  
America's Top Law Schools: 7th
   
Judging the Law Schools (February 2011)  
Overall Ranking: 7th

* This initial ranking, based on a simple count of "Super Lawyers" from each law school does not take the size of a school into account. Naturally, as a result, these rankings correlate closely with student body enrollment. The result is much more positive when factoring in law school size. For example, in most cases, each "Super Lawyer" graduated from law school at least 10 years ago. When converting the results to a per-capita basis based on total law school enrollment in 1999, we rank 8th among the top 14 law schools, ahead of Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, NYU, and Penn.