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These law schools top rankings that focus on quality legal jobs

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Yale Law School and Harvard Law School have traded places in Above the Law’s latest law-school rankings that focus on lawyer jobs and quality positions.

Yale Law School moved up from No. 5 to No. 1 in Above the Law’s rankings of 50 law schools, while Harvard Law School moved from No. 1 to No. 5. The blog’s top 10 are:

1) Yale Law School (also No. 1 in the U.S. News rankings)

2) Stanford Law School (tied for No. 2 in the U.S. News rankings)

3) University of Chicago Law School (tied for No. 4 in the U.S. News rankings)

4) University of Pennsylvania Law School (No. 7 in the U.S. News rankings)

5) Harvard Law School (tied for No. 2 in the U.S. News rankings)

6) University of Virginia Law School (tied for No. 8 in the U.S. News rankings)

7) Duke Law School (No. 11 in the U.S. News rankings)

8) Northwestern University School of Law (No. 12 in the U.S. News rankings)

9) Cornell University Law School (No. 13 in the U.S. News rankings)

10) UC Berkeley School of Law (tied for No. 8 in the U.S. News rankings)

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