The 2025 Go-To Law Schools: Big Law—All Schools Data

The Go-To Law Schools: Big Law report ranks the top 50 law schools by percentage of 2024 juris doctor graduates who took associate positions at the largest 500 firms as identified in The National Law Journal’s annual survey of the nation’s 500 largest law firms.

For the second year in a row, data for this report was provided to Law.com by the law schools instead of from law firms as has been done in the past.

Did your alma mater fail to make the cut for our top 50 Go-To Law Schools list? Not to fear, here is all the hiring data we collected from the nation’s largest 500 firms about their newest class of associates. Our numbers show that 5,967 graduates from 70 different law schools landed Big Law associate jobs last year.