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August 7, 2011
Seto on Law Firms
Theodore P. Seto has posted Where Do Partners Come from? on SSRN with the following abstract:
Which law schools produce the largest numbers of partners at national law firms? This article reports the results of a nationwide study of junior and mid-level partners at the 100 largest U.S. law firms. It identifies both the top 50 feeder schools to the NLJ 100 nationwide and the top 10 feeder schools to those same firms in each of the country’s ten largest legal markets. U.S. News rank turns out to be an unreliable predictor of feeder school status. Hiring and partnering by the NLJ 100 are remarkably local; law school rank is much less important than location. Perhaps surprisingly, Georgetown emerges as Harvard’s closest competitor for truly national status. (Any school that believes the author’s count is inaccurate is requested to supply corrected information.)
-- Eric C. Chaffee
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Comments
Does the study take into account that Harvard and Georgetown have huge law schools and are located in metropolitan areas with many large law firms? To the extent anyone cares about the subject, I would think a simple proportionality adjustment to account for law school and law firm partner sizes would yield more meaningful data. Factoring out the Big Law metropolitan influence a harder adjustment.
Posted by: BL | Aug 9, 2011 6:25:45 AM
