These law schools may help you get the most prestigious jobs.
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Do you like prestige? Of course you do. Is there really a law student who doesn’t? That being said, if you’re like the majority of your colleagues and you’d like to embark upon one of the most prestigious career paths available to recent law school graduates, then you’ll probably want to compete for an elite federal clerkship.
The American Bar Association recently released new employment data for the Class of 2023, and thanks to an analysis made by Reuters, we now know which law schools “dominated” the clerkship market by sending the highest percentage of graduates into federal clerkships.
According to the ABA data, just 3.4% of the class of 2023 found work as federal clerks. The 10 law schools that sent the highest percentage of graduates into these clerkships are responsible for a third of all clerkships across the country.
Without further ado, these are the top 10 schools for clerkships:
Chicago: 25.35%
Yale: 24.11%
Stanford: 20.77%
Notre Dame: 18.18%
Michigan: 14.01%
UVA: 13.73%
Texas: 13.00%
Harvard: 11.58%
Duke: 10.92%
BYU: 9.91%
You can access the full list by clicking here.
Way to go, Chicago! The elite school makes its return to the top spot for clerkships after being pushed down to No. 3 for the class of 2022, coming in behind Stanford and Yale. Chicago had previously dominated the list for the classes of 2020 and 2021. Yale and Stanford still clocked in at the top of the heap for the class of 2023, despite conservative judges boycotting hiring from the schools.
These law schools dominated the federal clerk hiring market in 2023 [Reuters]
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