<p>As for Concord, the “top 14” law schools are as follows, more or less ranked within their known prestige/placement tiers in the legal field:</p>
<p>Yale, Harvard, Stanford = YHS
Columbia, Chicago, NYU =CCN
Penn, Michigan, Berkeley, Virginia = PMBV
Northwestern, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown = NCDG</p>
<p>The T-14 is basically comprised of the “national” schools, as in firms recruit from these schools all over the nation and these schools place well across the nation. Beyond the T-14, there is a cut-off for placement into biglaw and these schools are seen as “regional” schools.</p>
<p>Biglaw firms in general dig deeper into higher ranked schools, meaning (this is purely hypothetical) while some firms may hire in the top 50% of schools ranked in the top 14, they will only hire in the top 10% of lower ranked schools.</p>