<p>My cousin wants to be a lawyer but she can't decide which law school to go to and I want to help her a lot so give me a top 20 list of the best law schools in the country</p>
<p>google USNews and Law School… :D</p>
<p>Could you give me a link</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.google.com”>www.google.com</a></p>
<p>Why are you here instead of your cousin?</p>
<p>The best law school in the united states is UC riverside, bar none. Every student who graduated from there is making 800K+ as associates.</p>
<p>What about columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, and duke</p>
<p>What about columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, and duke</p>
<p>Those schools are all trading on past glory. The Socratic method, case studies, six-figure jobs with Wall Street firms doing document review for four years - that is SO 2013. Your cousin should look at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Best of luck to her!</p>
<p>Getting hired by a law firm straight out of law school has a significant local angle to it. Yes, the big metropolitan area corporate firms on the Eastern Seaboard recruit exclusively from elite schools (mostly). But the markets in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle and even Philadelphia are different. You can argue that elite school graduates do not have a substantial advantage in the backyards of law schools such as UWashington, or Indiana U. Of course many of the “regional” law schools are considered to be elite, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, for example.</p>
<p>So you need to consider where you would like to begin your career.</p>
<p>Princeton Law School is elite, and not too tough to get into. Also look at Brown.</p>
<p>@Ch1746 I think Princeton’s med school has a slightly better reputation than its law school, but overall I have to agree - Ivy is the way to go. OP should also check out Dartmouth Law School - as the great alumnus Daniel Webster memorably said, “It is a small law school; and yet there are those who love it.”</p>
<p>Is this a comedy thread? Cooley Law school among the best? Princeton law School? $800,000 associate salaries to start? Okay the OP’s question was kind of ignorant . . . but still.</p>
<p>@letsbefrank Are you one of those elitist, ivory tower types? Too good for Cooley?</p>
<p>Graduated from “Princeton law” long ago. The best law school in the land bar none. Cooley is kindergarten in comparison. Seriously, Cooley is a great for any who don’t mind huge debt from one of the least respected law schools out there. If you don’t care about debt and employment after graduating from cooley, have at it.</p>
<p>Pshaw. You gotta look at the trajectory, not the dead hand of the past. As Cooley sheds campuses and tightens enrollment by shrinking the size of the entering class (can you BE more selective than an entering class of 0?) its cachet can only improve. A Cooley degree distinguishes the forward-thinking law student from the bland pack of credential-seekers who populate the law schools that rely on statistics your grandfather would have looked at, like bar passage rates and legal employment 6 months out.</p>
<p>Lol</p>
<p>@letsbefrank LOL i was being sarcastic about UCR and the 800k… thought it was pretty clear</p>