This is almost as boring as the Oscars: For the second year in a row, Columbia Law School got the top prize for sending the highest rate (66.24 percent) of graduates into first-year associate positions at the nation’s 250 largest firms.

According to National Law Journal’s freshly released list of go-to schools, Columbia is the school that Big Law adores:

Columbia’s gain was especially impressive considering that its graduating class was larger by 31 students than in 2013. White-shoe law firms Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom alone hired a combined 37 Columbia graduates.

And the other top feeder schools? More snores. “There was a strong correlation between a law school’s U.S. News & World Report rankings and its success in producing future large-firm associates,” says NLJ. They are:
  1. Columbia Law School — 66.24%
  2. University of Pennsylvania Law School — 63.67%
  3. University of Chicago Law School — 61.14%
  4. New York University School of Law — 59.92%
  5. Harvard Law School — 55.63%
  6. Cornell Law School — 52.88%
  7. Northwestern University School of Law — 49.48%
  8. Duke Law School — 48.84%
  9. University of Virginia School of Law — 46.70%
  10. Stanford Law School — 45.45%

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