The latest law school rankings are out, and they are a welcome distraction from international political and economic turmoil and other issues that the country is dealing with on a daily basis. Braggadocio-loving lawyers will now be dropping not-too-subtle references to their law school’s performance on Zoom calls and dunking on their colleagues’ law schools that did not fare as well. Yes, lawyers are not a shy bunch. This year, Harvard dropped out of the top 5 and Cornell out of the Top 14, while this Editor’s Washington University School of Law (Go Bears!!!) has now entered the coveted inner sanctum once again.
Take this new list with a grain of salt as, once you get your first law school job, you will find that other factors, such as being indispensable, are much more important than where you suffered for three years. And based on the ruckus and consternation that ranking shakeups can cause, expect more changes in the future, which may very well result in larger year-to-year changes!
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