This list includes only attorneys who finished their undergraduate studies in the year 2020. 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 and which starts new associates at $225k/year. Numbers in parentheses are for those colleges that have more than one associate on the list. In this group, 68% attended non-MC25 schools. (Note: Click on the word ‘Lists’ in the menu for important notes for this section.)

Skadden Arps Associates (graduated 2020)

UC Berkeley (3)

U Virginia (2)

Villanova (2)

U Southern California (2)

Knox College

U South Dakota

UC Los Angeles

College of New Jersey

Rhodes College

U Delaware

Hamilton College

Wake Forest

Columbia

U Minnesota

Case Western

Georgia Tech

George Washington

Georgetown (3)

Northwestern (2)

Fordham (2)

Indiana U (2)

Creighton U

Miami U of Ohio

U Miami

Tulane

Emory U

Boston College

New York U

Samford U

Princeton

Vanderbilt

Syracuse

Ohio State

U Chicago

Source: skadden.com

(Last updated 5/25/2025)