Now that we know prospective law students just don’t care about the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings, we’re left wondering where we can turn to gauge the prestige of our country’s many, many law schools. I created a list of 196 United States law schools by copying it from the U.S. News & World Report “Best Law Schools” 2024 ranking. I then searched for the official name of each law school in the New York Times archive and recorded how many times the law school had been mentioned by name in the past 12 months. Here are the T14 of the New York Times law school ranking:1. The Gray Lady’s Guide to Legal Education [SSRN]Frye: The New York Times Law School Rankings [TaxProf Blog]Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011.
