U.S. News & World Report has teased the March 15 release of its annual law school rankings with an advance look at “the first ever ranking of law schools by hiring officials at the country’s top law firms. … [T]he U.S. News survey … was sent last fall to 750 hiring partners and recruiters at law firms who made the 2010 Best Law Firms rankings produced jointly by U.S. News and the publication Best Lawyers. The response rate was 14%.”. U.S. News released the Top 25; the Top 100 will be published in the 2012 law school rankings:
School (US News Overall Rank) Recruiters Reputation Rank (5.0 Is Highest)
| 1. | Harvard (2) | 4.9 |
| 2. | Stanford (3) | 4.8 |
| 2. | Yale (1) | 4.8 |
| 4. | Columbia (4) | 4.7 |
| 4. | Michigan (9) | 4.7 |
| 6. | NYU (6) | 4.6 |
| 6. | Virginia (10) | 4.6 |
| 8. | Cornell (13) | 4.5 |
| 8. | Duke (11) | 4.5 |
| 8. | Northwestern (11) | 4.5 |
| 8. | UC-Berkeley (7) | 4.5 |
| 8. | Chicago (5) | 4.5 |
| 13. | Georgetown (14) | 4.4 |
| 13. | Pennsylvania (7) | 4.4 |
| 15. | Vanderbilt (17) | 4.3 |
| 15. | Washington U. (19) | 4.3 |
| 17. | Texas (15) | 4.2 |
| 18. | Boston University (22) | 4.1 |
| 18. | Emory (22) | 4.1 |
| 18. | UCLA (15) | 4.1 |
| 18. | Minnesota (22) | 4.1 |
| 18. | Notre Dame (22) | 4.1 |
| 18. | USC (18) | 4.1 |
| 18. | Washington & Lee (34) | 4.1 |
| 25. | Boston College (28) | 4.0 |
| 25. | Iowa (26) | 4.0 |
| 25. | North Carolina (28) | 4.0 |
