NLJ Special Reports: Highlights of 2014
The go-to law schools. The NLJ 350. A three-part series on judicial transparency. Our inaugural Elite Trial Lawyers list honoring 50 firms that helped clients win billions of dollars in awards. What follows are highlights from the NLJ's special reports of 2014.
December 31, 2014 at 06:15 AM
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Here's a collection that highlights special reports the NLJ published in 2014:
|The Go-To Law Schools
Large law firm associate hiring ticked up for a second straight year in 2013—welcome news, considering law schools sent more newly minted juris doctors into the job market than ever before. Among the 50 schools most popular with hiring firms, 27 percent of graduates landed associate jobs—up from 25 percent in 2012. That was the highest hiring percentage recorded since 2010. We've ranked the top 50 law schools by the percentage of 2013 law school graduates who took jobs at NLJ 250 firms—the nation's largest by headcount as identified in The National Law Journal's annual survey.
|The NLJ 350
Last year marked the biggest headcount gains for lawyers at the nation's 350 largest firms since 2009—the year firms slashed their ranks in response to the recession. Our latest NLJ 350 survey, The National Law Journal's annual ranking of U.S. law firms by number of attorneys, shows that, overall, they grew by 3.9 percent in 2013. That's an additional 5,562 lawyers—equivalent to about 1 1/2 Baker & McKenzies. But compare that to 2007, when 6,790 lawyers joined the nation's 250 largest law firms. Yes, 250 firms—back then, that was the number of law firms we ranked. Still, the increase in 2013 represented a healthy improvement from the 1.1 percent uptick in 2012 and indicates that firms, overall, are at the point between surviving and thriving. Read The NLJ 350 Regional Report here.
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