The National Law Journal reports today that 27.3% of the law school class of 2010 landed jobs at the 250 largest law firms, down from 30.3% last year. The NLJ ranks the Top 50 law schools by the percentage of the graduating class landing jobs at BigLaw firms. Here are the Top 26 (along with each school’s U.S. News ranking):

1. Chicago (59.0%) (U.S. News #5)
2. Cornell (58.3%) (#13)
3. Columbia (55.2%) (#4)
4. Pennsylvania (53.3%) (#7)
5. Harvard (49.7%) (#2)
6. Virginia (46.8%) (#10)
7. UC-Berkeley (45.6%) (#7)
8. Northwestern (44.4%) (#11)
9. NYU (43.3%) (#6)
10. Michigan (42.5%) (#9)
11. Stanford (41.6%) (#3)
12. Duke (38.0%) (#11)
13. Georgetown (37.6%) (#14)
14. UCLA (35.19%) (#15)
15. Yale (33.8%) (#1)
16. Boston College (33.6%) (#28)
17. Boston University (30.0%) (#22)
18. Vanderbilt (29.8%) (#17)
19. USC (28.7%) (#18)
20. Texas (26.7%) (#15)
21. Fordham (25.7%) (#34)
22. George Washington (24.8%) (#20)
23. Notre Dame (23.8%) (#22)
24. Emory (21.2%) (#22)
25. Washington U. (19.0%) (#19)
26. Illinois (18.0%) (#21)

The exact same law schools made up the 2010 Top 26 (with some reshuffling within the Top 26).