This list includes only attorneys who finished their undergraduate studies in the year 2017, which is the most recent year available owing to the three years necessary to finish law school. It demonstrates that recent graduates are being hired from a wide variety of colleges at Skadden Arps (link to Skadden Arps), a law firm consistently ranked very highly in numerous specialties by US News. Numbers in parentheses are for those colleges that have more than one associate on the list. In this group, 83% attended non-MC25 schools. (Note: Click on the word ‘Lists’ in the menu for important notes for this section.)
Skadden Arps Associates (graduated 2017)
George Washington U (2)
Loyola U of Chicago
Lehigh
Virginia Tech
U Mississippi
U Miami
Hope College
Franklin and Marshall College
U Texas Austin
U Michigan
Miami U
Tufts (2)
U Central Florida
U North Carolina Wilmington
Drexel
U Chicago
Arizona State
Northwestern
Indiana U
U California Berkeley
U Florida
Harvard
Because there were fewer hires in 2020 than most years, I also looked at 2016. The representation of MC25 schools is higher here, but 64% are still from non-MC25 colleges. If we combine the two years, 69% are from non-MC25 schools, which is comparable to the percentage in other professions.
Skadden Arps (graduated 2016)
U Pennsylvania (4)
Harvard (3)
Cornell (2)
Towson U (2)
U Maryland College Park (2)
St. John’s U
U Alabama
U Missouri
Boston College
Washington U in St. Louis
Wake Forest
Lebanon Valley College
James Madison U
Stanford
U Dayton
City College of New York
Missouri State
Notre Dame
Penn State
New York U
Syracuse
The College of New Jersey
Purdue
U Michigan
Emory U
Georgetown (3)
Dartmouth (2)
U Illinois (2)
U Southern California (2)
Duke (2)
U Central Florida
U Delaware
U Connecticut
Indiana State
U Rochester
U Nebraska
San Diego State
Princeton
U Virginia
Tufts
U California Los Angeles
Williams College
Brigham Young U
U Texas Austin
George Washington U
U Vermont
Brown
Carnegie Mellon
U Iowa
U Florida
Source: skadden.com
(Last updated 4/12/2021)