I have a number of posts about law schools, from those touching on U.S. News rankings to best law schools for tacos and social justice. College sports enthusiasts love rankings and are keenly attentive to the shifts from one week to the next. Although I like college sports rankings, as my posts suggest, I am circumspect about the usefulness of law school rankings and the regular shifting of schools (in U.S. News and World Reports, for example).

That said, another law school ranking by Law.com is the subject of a Tax Prof blog post by Dean Austen Parrish. As reported by Above the Law, “Law.com has published a list of the best law schools to go to if you want to work in Biglaw after graduation. . . . [T]his year, they’re ranked by the percentage of 2025 graduates who took associate positions within the Am Law 200, the nation’s top 200 law firms based on gross revenue. . . .” Here are the top 10:

1. Columbia: 75.55%
2. Northwestern: 67.80%
3. Penn: 66.93%
4. UVA: 65.26%
5. NYU: 61.87%
6. Chicago: 61.11%
7. UC Berkeley: 60.42%
8. UCLA: 55.72%
9. Vanderbilt: 55.62%
10. Georgetown: 53.77%

Law.com’s full list of the “Top 50 Go-To Law Schools” is here.

I was left to thinking what it means for a law school to be on this list. Is it worthy of note that Stanford, Harvard, and Yale are not in the top 10? Do leaders at those three schools care about not being in the Biglaw top 10 jobs list? Should they? Is it good to be on the list? Bad? Irrelevant? Or, does “it depend”?