Law Firm School Tracker
% of Firm = matching lawyers ÷ all documented U.S.-office lawyers at that firm. Missing education stays in the denominator. How to read this →
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Methodology
The data in this tracker comes from a fall 2026 snapshot of the Vault Law 100 attorney directories. There are 99 firms because Hogan Lovells merged with Cadwalader.
It's not perfect. If there are any errors or omissions, you can reach out to me. My contact information is on my about page.
- Who counts?
- Lawyers only (e.g. not CTOs, staff attorneys, discovery/eDiscovery attorneys, other staff, patent agents, students, and retired or emeritus lawyers) and U.S. offices only. This rule applies to college figures as well. Each person is counted once per firm, including people with multiple offices or degrees.
- Which degrees?
College normally means an undergraduate degree. Law school normally means a JD or LLB. Corrections are assessed individually by agentic reviewers against biography text. Clear college and law-school assignments count even when degree labels are missing. The emphasis is on US schools. Schools outside the United States usually appear as Non-U.S. in the lawyer table. U.S. territories count as U.S. When a lawyer has only one recorded school and that school is foreign, both fields are classified Non-U.S. Missing degrees remain unspecified.
LLMs, JSDs, and PhDs aren't counted. School aliases are consolidated where the institution is clear. Ambiguous degree-to-school associations are excluded.
- What are Partner Lift and Partner Drop?
- Hover over or focus a school in the lawyer table to see its lawyer count, partner count, and partner lift/drop across the full census. When both a college and a law school are selected, a second section shows alumni of both selected schools, with the same full-census baseline. Partner lift is the percentage of a school's alumni who are partners divided by the percentage of all census lawyers who are partners. 1× matches the census; 2× means twice its partner percentage. For example, 50% partners at a school versus 25% across the census gives 2× lift. Ratios are displayed to two decimal places. Displayed values of 1.00× or above show as green Partner Lift; values below 1.00× show as red Partner Drop. Partners include shareholders and members. All included lawyers count in the percentage denominators.
- How are the percentages calculated?
- % of Firm divides matching lawyers by every U.S.-office lawyer at the firm, including those whose education is missing. It shows “-” when no school is selected. A recorded zero means no observed match, not proof that the firm has zero alumni.
- What is JScore?
JScore is a firm’s imputed LSAT: the average of its lawyers’ law-schools' LSAT scores from 2016. It provides an accurate ordinal ranking of firm prestige. Read it as an ordering of firms. The displayed number does not reflect attorneys' actual test scores, which are likely significantly higher, as LSAT strongly predicts first-year law-school grades, and firms select for academic performance.
Each included U.S.-office lawyer receives the 2016 LSAT median for their law school. The firm score covers its full included U.S.-office census.
Schools with no usable 2016 value or an unresolved mapping are excluded from the average. Lawyers with no scored school are excluded only from this average, not from lawyer counts or % of Firm.
- How complete is it?
- Of 85,867 included lawyers, 82,897 (96.5%) have usable college information and 85,120 (99.1%) have usable initial law-degree information. 2,039 are included using verified U.S.-only firm office footprints. 2,410 additional records classified as lawyers have unknown offices and are excluded.
- Where do the records come from?
- Public firm directories and lawyer biographies. Each lawyer’s name links to their firm profile where available. A link, or a lawyer, may have moved since collection. The data is a dated snapshot and does not establish current employment. The census was conducted between mid-September and early October of 2026.
- Who the Hell are you? And where did YOU go to law school?
- Hi! I'm James Shapiro. Along with an apparent total of lawyers at big law firms, I went to and , but unlike them I dropped out after 1L to pursue . I've always wanted to create a tracker like this but until recently it would not have been technologically possible. If you're a law firm CTO or an impressed bigwig partner looking for a creative collaborator, feel free to get in touch.