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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think job placement should count double of important clerkships. Count getting a clerkship as employment. Some of those random school jobs are with low paying firms. A clerkship is a low paying prestigious job.

Redo the percentages including that and you'll be back to Yale and Harvard. And no, I did not graduate from either, but I do understand how hard it is to get an important clerkship.[/quote]

The job placement ranking does include clerkships. From the article:

QUALITY JOBS SCORE (35%)
This measures the schools’ success at placing students on career paths that best enable them to pay off their student debts. We’ve combined placement with the country’s largest and best-paying law firms [b]and the percentage of graduates embarking on federal judicial clerkships. These clerkships typically lead to a broader and enhanced range of employment opportunities.[/b]

https://abovethelaw.com/top-law-schools-2022/[/quote]

In top of counting clerkships as a “quality job,” they also add another 5% of the score for Supreme Court Clerkships and federal judgeships:

SCOTUS CLERK & FEDERAL JUDGESHIP SCORES (5% EACH)
Though obviously applicable to very different stages of legal careers, these two categories represent the pinnacles of the profession. For the purposes of these rankings, we simply looked at a school's graduates as a percentage of (1) all U.S. Supreme Court clerks (since 2017) and (2) currently sitting Article III judges. Both scores are adjusted for the size of the school. Obviously, we are aware that for the vast majority of students, Supreme Court clerkships or the federal bench are simply not prospects. But for the students who do want to be judges and academics, this outcome represents a useful separating factor for the most elite schools. Some schools put you in robes, others can't.[/quote]

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