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NU Law Dean Adjusts ‘Super Lawyers’ Rankings to Reflect Law School Size
Posted Nov 19, 2009, 03:25 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A new ranking of law schools by the Super Lawyers magazine admittedly didn't take into account the number of graduates.
And class size does matter, according to Northwestern University School of Law Dean David Van Zandt. So he has reconfigured the rankings, which are based on the number of Super Lawyers produced by each law school, to factor in the number of graduates, reports Above the Law.
His revised list of the top 14 law schools, which Van Zandt sent out in an e-mail to students, still puts Harvard Law School in the No. 1 spot, followed by the University of Michigan. But it moves Northwestern up from 18th to 8th place.
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