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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How accurate is this asssessment?

For law teaching and Supreme Court clerkships, Harvard, Yale, Chicago and Stanford dominate.

The T14 dominate big law.  In NYC, the major feeders are Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Cornell and Penn.  Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern, Berkeley, Michigan, Virginia do well but are more dispersed across the country (Yale is less represented in big law as most are interested in clerkships or academia).   One school that is outside T14 but well represented in NYC is Fordham.  
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IANAL but I think this is largely correct. Yale still sends plenty to big law. Definitely add Duke to that second group, and it even bumps into the "NYC major feeders group" a bit.

You are correct about Fordham - it does surprisingly well in NYC. The bar is just higher but they get a fair number of people hired at big firms. Cardozo and Brooklyn even sneak a few alums each year into the top firms. Georgetown also does fairly well in NYC.

In the current administration there are more non-traditional feeders for clerkships, with George Mason being the most obvious example.[/quote]

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