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The American Bar Association posts lists of all ABA-approved law schools. FindLaw posts a state-by-state list of all U.S. law schools that gives you the school’s address & telephone number and links to the school’s Web page, library catalog and a law review Web sites. FindLaw also posts links to Foreign Law School Web sites.

ABA-accredited schools are required to file statistical data on tuition, scholarships, admission criteria, ethnicity, faculty, bar passage rates, student attrition, etc. The ABA posts these Standard 509 Information Reports for each school individually and in a spreadsheet for all schools together.

Online rankings for individual law schools include the U.S. News and World Report,Above the Law’s Top 50 Law Schools, Leiter’s Law School Rankings and The Best 172 Law Schools by The Princeton Review and Super Lawyers.

The April issue of The American Lawyer traditionally features law school rankings based on hiring at big firms and major cities, Supreme Court clerkships and Skadden Fellowships. The LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools publishes job placement figures, which can be used to rank schools.

For choosing a school, I recommend The Insider’s Guide to Law Schools, which gives you a better idea of what life is like at the school than you’re likely to read anywhere else.

For even more information, you can also search articles about the school (see the “News” and/or “Periodicals” entries).

Unemployment Rankings and Law Schools

To know the law jobs scarcity it si worth the effort to see the the Unemployment Rankings in Law Schools. When law schools are ranked by their rates of unemployment among the class of 2013, California institutions take 7 of the top 10 spots (and 12 of the top 25). Here are the 10 law schools in the United States and Puerto Rico with the highest rates.

1. Whittier Law School (CA) 41%
2. California Western School of Law (CA) 41%
3. University of Puerto Rico (PR) 40%
4. Golden Gate University (CA) 37%
5. University of San Francisco (CA) 37%
6. Florida Coastal School of Law (FL) 35%
7. McGeorge School of Law (CA) 34%
8. University of La Verne (CA) 34%
9. Chapman University (CA) 30%
10. Inter American University (PR) 29%

In a ranking by how likely grads were to land a job where a law degree was required or “helpful,” three California law schools made the top 25: Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UCLA – all with employment rates in the low 90s. But that wasn’t enough to break into the top 10.
1. University of Virginia (VA) 98%
2. University of Pennsylvania (PA) 97%
3. University of Chicago (IL) 97%
4. Columbia University (NY) 97%
5. Emory University (GA) 97%
6. Harvard University (MA) 96%
7. New York University (NY) 96%
8. Arizona State University (AZ) 95%
9. Northwestern University (IL) 94%
10. University of Minnesota (MN) 93%

Source: American Bar Association survey of ABA-accredited law schools on employment status of 2013 graduates as of Feb. 15, 2014

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