Have you asked yourself before, Where Do Super lawyers Come From? If so, then read along to see a percentage in each state.
Where do you go to school to make it to the top?
New England
Connecticut:
UConn: 28%
Quinnipiac: 8%
Boston U: 4%
Virginia: 4%
Yale: 4%
Western New England U: 4%
Suffolk: 3%
Georgetown: 3%
NYU: 3%
Boston College: 3%
Massachusetts:
Boston College: 18%
Suffolk U.: 16%
Boston U: 14%
Harvard: 15%
Northeastern: 6%
New England Law Boston: 6%
Georgetown: 3%
Columbia: 2%
Virginia: 2%
Cornell: 2%
Rhode Island:
Suffolk: 20%
Boston U: 12%
Boston College: 10%
Georgetown: 5%
New England Law: 4%
Harvard: 4%
Roger Williams: 3%
NYU: 3%
George Washington: 2%
Catholic University of America: 2%
American University (D.C.): 2%
Mid Atlantic:
New York: Metro
NYU: 11%
Columbia: 10%
Harvard: 8%
Fordham: 8%
Brooklyn Law: 7%
St. John’s: 5%
Hofstra: 4%
Georgetown: 3%
New York Law: 3%
Yale: 3%
New York Upstate:
U at Buffalo-SUNY: 27%
Albany: 18%
Syracuse: 12%
Cornell: 5%
Georgetown: 2%
Notre Dame: 2%
Harvard: 1%
Toledo: 1%
Michigan: 1%
Fordham: 1%
New Jersey:
Seton Hall: 21%
Rutgets Newark: 13%
Rutgers Camden: 7%
NYU: 4%
New York Law: 3%
Georgetown: 3%
Widener: 3%
Harvard: 3%
Fordham: 2%
Temple: 2%
Pennsylvania:
Temple: 16%
Villanova: 13%
Pittsburgh: 10%
UPenn: 9%
Duquesne: 8%
Penn State: 6%
Widener: 6%
Harvard: 3%
Georgetown: 2%
Rutgers: 2%
South Atlantic
Delaware:
Widener U: 13%
Villanova: 11%
Penn State: 8%
U of Penn: 8%
Temple University: 7%
Georgetown: 6%
Virginia: 4%
Washington and Lee: 3%
Harvard: 3%
William and Mary: 3%
North Carolina: 3%
Emory: 3%
Georgia:
Georgia: 23%
Emory: 18%
Mercer University: 7%
Virginia: 6%
Harvard: 4%
Vanderbilt: 3%
Duke: 3%
Georgia State: 3%
North Carolina: 2%
Florida: 2%
Florida:
Florida: 25%
Miami: 16%
Stetson: 8%
Florida State: 8%
Nova Southeastern: 3%
Harvard: 2%
Georgetown: 2%
Duke: 2%
Virginia: 2%
Samford: 2%
Maryland:
Maryland: 30%
Baltimore: 22%
Goergetown: 6%
George Washington: 6%
Catholic University of America: 5%
America University Washington: 5%
Virginia: 3%
Harvard: 2%
Duke: 1%
UPenn: 1%
South Carolina:
South Carolina: 78%
Virginia: 4%
Emory: 2%
harvard: 1%
Duke: 1%
Wake Forest: 1%
Vanderbilt: 1%
yale: 1%
Georgia: 1%
Samford: 1%
Campbell University: 1%
West Virginia:
West Virginia: 62%
William and Mary: 5%
Washington and Lee: 4%
Virginia: 2%
Kentucky: 2%
Ohio State: 2%
Harvard: 2%
Wake Forest: 2%
Notre Dame: 2%
Richmond: 1%
George Mason: 1%
Duquesne: 1%
North Carolina:
North Carolina: 35%
Wake Forest: 21%
Duke: 7%
Virginia: 6%
Campbell Univ.: 5%
Vanderbilt: 2%
Harvard: 2%
South Carolina: 2%
North Carolina Central: 1%
William and Mary: 1%
Washington D.C.:
Georgetown: 12%
George Washington: 11%
Harvard: 10%
Virginia: 7%
Catholic University: 4%
American University: 4%
Yale: 4%
Michigan: 3%
Columbia: 3%
Maryland: 2%
Virginia:
Virginia: 25%
Richmond: 22%
William and Mary: 12%
Washington and Lee: 7%
George Mason: 6%
George Washington: 3%
Georgetown: 3%
American University 2%
Catholic University: 1%
Harvard: 1%
Mid and Deep South
Kentucky:
Kentucky: 37%
Louisville: 32%
Northern Kentucky: 5%
Vanderbilt: 3%
Indiana: 2%
Cincinnati: 2%
Harvard: 2%
Virginia: 1%
Michigan: 1%
Yale: 1%
Notre Dame: 1%
Louisiana:
LSU: 38%
Tulane: 31%
Loyola New Orleans: 18%
Virginia: 2%
Harvard: 1%
Georgetown: 1%
Ol’ Miss: 1%
Southern U: 1%
Vanderbilt: 0%
Mississippi College: 0% (both <1%)
Alabama:
Alabama School of Law: 42%
Samford University Cumberland School of Law: 27%
Vanderbilt University Law School: 7%
University of Virginia Law School: 5%
Birmingham School of Law: 3%
Tulane University Law School: 2%
Faulkner University School of Law: 2%
Emory University School of Law: 1%
Washington and Lee University School of Law: 1%
Harvard Law School: 1%
Mid South:
Ol’ Miss: 20%
Tennessee:18%
Vanderbilt: 15%
Arkansas: 10%
Memphis: 9%
Arkansas at Little Rock: 6%
Mississippi College: 2%
East North Central
Illinois:
DePaul: 11%
Northwestern: 10%
Loyola Chicago: 9%
Illinois: 8%
John marshall: 7%
Chicago: 7%
Chicago-Kent College, IIT: 7%
Michigan: 6%
Harvard: 5%
Notre Dame: 2%
Indiana:
Indiana U McKinney school of law: 46%
Indiana Maurer school of law: 24%
Valparaiso U: 5%
Michigan: 4%
Notre Dame: 2%
Harvard: 2%
Vanderbilt: 1%
Washington U, St. Louis: 1%
Louisville: 1%
Illinois: 1%
Northwestern: 1%
Michigan:
Wayne State: 26%
Michigan: 21%
Detroit Mercy: 14%
Michigan State: 13%
Thomas M. Cooley: 4%
Notre Dame: 2%
Harvard: 2%
Indiana: 1%
Toledo: 1%
Northwestern: 1%
Ohio:
Ohio State: 17%
Case Western Reserve: 13%
Cleveland State: 11%
Cincinnati: 10%
Capital: 7%
Akron: 6%
Northern Kentucky: 3%
Toledo: 3%
Michigan: 3%
Dayton: 3%
Wisconsin:
Wisconsin: 38%
Marquette: 33%
Michigan: 2%
Iowa: 2%
Northwestern: 2%
Harvard: 2%
Drake: 1%
Georgetown: 1%
John Marshall: 1%
Washington U (st. Louis): 1%
West North Central
Missouri and Kansas:
Missouri (columbia): 15%
Missouri-Kansas City: 15%
Kansas: 13%
Saint Louis U: 12%
Washburn U: 10%%
Washington U. St. Louis: 8%
Michigan: 2%
Iowa: 2%
Harvard: 1%
Georgetown: 1%
Minnesota:
Minnesota: 33%
William Mitchell: 26%
Hamline: 8%
Harvard: 3%
Iowa: 3%
Michigan: 2%
North Dakota: 2%
Chicago: 2%
Wisconsin: 2%
Georgetown: 1%
Texas and Oklahoma
Oklahoma:
Oklahoma: 46%
Tulsa: 21%
Oklahoma City U: 12%
Texas: 3%
SMU:2%
Harvard: 1%
Arkansas: 1%
Georgetown: 1%
Kansas: 1%
Vanderbilt: 1%
Duke: 1%
Texas:
Texas: 26%
SMU: 13%
Houston: 11%
Baylor: 9%
South Texas: 7%
Texas Tech: 6%
St. Mary’s U.:6%
Harvard: 2%
Virginia: 1%
Oklahoma: 1%
Mountain
Southwest:
Arizona: 19%
Arizona State: 15%
New Mexico: 10%
Texas: 3%
Michigan: 2%
Harvard: 2%
Georgetown: 2%
Notre Dame: 2%
Brigham Young: 2%
George Washington: 2%
Colorado:
U of Denver: 29%
Colorado: 20%
Harvard: 3%
Georgetown: 2%
Stanford: 2%
Michigan: 2%
Virginia: 2%
Texas: 2%
Yale: 1%
NYU: 1%
Pacific
Alaska:
Willamette University College of Law: 8%
Harvard Law School: 7%
University of Washington School of Law: 6%
Univ. of Oregon School of law: 6%
UC Berkeley School of Law: 6%
Gonzaga University School of Law: 5%
Northeastern: 5%
Stanford: 4%
Univ. of the Pacific: 3%
Michigan: 3%
Arizona: 3%
Lewis and Clark: 3%
NorCalifornia:
California Hastings: 16%
California Berkeley: 13%
San Francisco: 8%
Santa Clara University: 6%
University of the Pacific: 5%
Stanford: 5%
Harvard: 5%
UC Davis: 4%
Golden Gate Univ.: 3%
UCLA school of law: 3%
SoCalifornia:
Loyola: 14%
UCLA: 14%
USC: 8%
Southwestern: 8%
UC Berkeley: 5%
Harvard: 5%
UC Hastings: 3%
Pepperdine: 3%
Stanford: 3%
UC San Diego: 2%
Hawaii:
Hawai’i at Manoa: 16%
UC Berkeley: 9%
UC Hastings: 8%
Georgetown: 8%
Harvard: 7%
Michigan: 5%
Boston U. 3%
Santa Clara U.: 3%
Stanford: 3%
Virginia: 2%
Southwestern: 2%
Northwestern: 2%
Columbia: 2%
Oregon:
Lewis and Clark: 18%
Oregon: 17%
Willamette: 16%
Berkeley: 3%
Michigan: 3%
Harvard: 3%
Stanford: 2%
Washington: 2%
UC Hastings: 1%
Seattle: 1%
Northwestern: 1%
Gonzaga: 1%
Cornell: 1%
Virginia: 1%
Washington:
Washington: 22%
Seattle: 15%
Gonzaga: 6%
Harvard: 5%
Michigan: 3%
Willamette: 3%
Georgetown: 3%
Stanford: 3%
yale: 3%
Oregon: 2%
Top superlawyer producing schools.
1 Harvard Law School
2 The University of Michigan Law School
3 The University of Texas School of Law
4 University of Virginia School of Law
5 Georgetown University Law Center
6 New York University School of Law
7 Columbia Law School
8 University of Florida Levin College of Law
9 University of California Berkeley School of Law – Boalt Hall
10 Yale Law School
11 University of California Hastings College of the Law
12 The George Washington University Law School
13 Boston University School of Law
14 UCLA School of Law
15 University of Pennsylvania Law School
16 The University of Chicago Law School
17 Boston College Law School
18 Northwestern University School of Law
19 Stanford Law School
20 University of Miami School of Law
21 Vanderbilt University Law School
22 Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
23 Duke University School of Law
24 University of Minnesota Law School
25 University of Wisconsin Law School
26 Cornell University Law School
27 Fordham University School of Law
28 Temple University Beasley School of Law
29 Loyola Law School Los Angeles
30 University of North Carolina School of Law
U.S. News and World Report Ranking
1. Yale University
2. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
4. Columbia University
4.University of Chicago
6. New York University
7.University of Pennsylvania
7. University of Virginia
8. University of California–Berkeley
9. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
11. Duke University
12. Northwestern University
13. Cornell University
14. Georgetown University
15. University of Texas–Austin
15. Vanderbilt University
17. University of California–Los Angeles
18. University of Southern California
19. University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
19. Washington University St. Louis
20. George Washington University
21. University of Alabama
22. Emory University
23. University of Notre Dame
24. Indiana University–Bloomington
25. University of Iowa
26. Washington and Lee University
27. University of Washington
28. Arizona State University
29. Boston University
Depending on where you want to practice, not all law schools are created equally.
Citations
- http://www.superlawyers.com/toplists/lawschools/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Census_Regions_and_Division_of_the_United_States.svg
- http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings
