WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS the nation’s largest law firms continued to rely on renowned private schools in the eastern half of the country to fill their first-year associate ranks in 2006.

Columbia Law School was the top pick among the country’s 250 biggest law firms for hiring first-year associates last year. Some 69.6percent of the law school’s graduates who earned juris doctor degrees in 2006 went to work for law firms included in The National Law Journal’s 2006 annual survey of the nation’s 250 largest law firms. Of the 450 graduates at Columbia Law School, 313 took jobs as first-year associates at NLJ 250 firms. NLJ is a Daily Report affiliate.

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