The new 2026-27 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings include the trial advocacy programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Stetson |
| 2 | Temple |
| 3 | Baylor |
| 4 | UCLA |
| 5 | Fordham |
| 6 | Mercer |
| 6 | South Texas |
| 6 | UC-Berkeley |
| 9 | Denver |
| 9 | Samford |
| 9 | Syracuse |
| 12 | Chicago-Kent |
| 12 | Hofstra |
| 12 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 12 | St. Mary’s |
| 16 | Houston |
| 16 | Northwestern |
| 16 | Pacific |
| 19 | Drexel |
| 19 | Texas |
| 21 | Missouri-Kansas City |
| 21 | Pace |
| 21 | St. John’s |
| 24 | Georgetown |
| 24 | Maryland |
| 24 | Nova |
| 27 | Chapman |
| 27 | Howard |
| 27 | Loyola-Chicago |
| 27 | South Carolina |
| 31 | Quinnipiac |
| 31 | Suffolk |
| 31 | Texas Tech |
| 31 | Washington University |
| 35 | American |
| 35 | Georgia |
| 35 | Illinois |
| 35 | Lewis & Clark |
| 35 | Ohio State |
| 40 | Campbell |
| 40 | Emory |
| 40 | Harvard |
| 40 | Illinois-Chicago |
| 40 | Inter-American (PR) |
| 40 | Ohio Northern |
| 40 | UC Law SF |
| 47 | Georgia State |
| 47 | Louisiana State |
| 47 | SUNY-Buffalo |
| 50 | Akron |
| 50 | George Washington |
| 50 | Rutgers |
| 50 | SMU |
| 50 | Tulane |
| 50 | Villanova |
2026-27 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
- Business/Corporate Law
- Clinical Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts/Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Legal Writing
- Trial Advocacy
- Tax Law
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