{"id":148876,"date":"2026-04-15T15:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/15\/rankings-drama-hits-law-schools-law-firms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:29:16","slug":"rankings-drama-hits-law-schools-law-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/15\/rankings-drama-hits-law-schools-law-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Rankings Drama Hits Law Schools, Law Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s that time of year where publications look deep into the souls of complex, nuanced legal institutions and assign them a fixed ranking. U.S. News and World Report issued its latest law school rankings and for the first time ever, Yale has lost its death grip on first place<\/a>. The rest of the T14 \u2014 which isn\u2019t really a thing at this point, since its whole argument for being was that the same 14 schools never fell out of the top 14 \u2014 is also topsy-turvy, with the HYS-CCN model scrambled by the likes of Penn, Duke, and UVA. Are the rankings just busted, or are they catching up with a new reality? At the same time, Vault put out its rankings of law firms based on prestige<\/a> and while the list looks familiar, the firms that made deals with Donald Trump took a hit. And none more than Paul Weiss, which seems to be taking much more reputational heat for these deals than the other capitulators. Finally, we talk about billing and the time-space continuum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s that time of year where publications look deep into the souls of complex, nuanced legal institutions and assign them a fixed ranking. U.S. News and World Report issued its latest law school rankings and for the first time ever, Yale has lost its death grip on first place<\/a>. The rest of the T14 \u2014 which isn\u2019t really a thing at this point, since its whole argument for being was that the same 14 schools never fell out of the top 14 \u2014 is also topsy-turvy, with the HYS-CCN model scrambled by the likes of Penn, Duke, and UVA. Are the rankings just busted, or are they catching up with a new reality? At the same time, Vault put out its rankings of law firms based on prestige<\/a> and while the list looks familiar, the firms that made deals with Donald Trump took a hit. And none more than Paul Weiss, which seems to be taking much more reputational heat for these deals than the other capitulators. Finally, we talk about billing and the time-space continuum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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