We're taking a look at hiring trends among the largest law firms, pinpointing which firms hired the most new associates in 2020 and from which law schools those firms recruited most heavily. Last year, Kirkland & Ellis reported hiring the largest new associate class, at 256. A whopping 24 came from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Harvard Law School had the second-largest cohort of 2020 graduates go to a single firm, sending 22 to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.