Yale Law School offers the lowest student-to-teacher ratio of any law school in the country, a specialized honors/pass/low pass alternative grading system, and a list of distinguished alumni including Supreme Court justices and United States presidents. Students at Yale Law begin seeing clients within their first year as part of their dedication to public service. Graduates of Yale Law go on to become CEOs, founders of nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs and governmental financial advisers at the federal, state, and local levels.
Stanford Law's John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics attracts distinguished professors and scholars from all over the world for speeches, presentations and generating working papers. In addition to its beautiful California location, Stanford Law offers a deviation from the standard first-year law school curriculum requirement of following a specific course outline by allowing their students to select from electives from the university's general coursework.
Located in New York City, the legal capital of the country, Columbia Law focuses on personal relationships, community and building leadership in its rigorous curriculum. While admission to Columbia is highly selective, the school accepts more students than most other top schools. Columbia offers opportunities for students to begin practicing law while still enrolled in the program.
Harvard Law School's curriculum provides one of the largest coursework offerings in the country. It boasts more than 400 classes, seminars and reading groups while still maintaining a low student-to-teacher ratio. The school offers in-class legal experience through its 29 in-house clinics and outside organizations, opportunities for academic credit through faculty-led writing projects, and opportunities to incorporate international experiences and knowledge into the curriculum. Graduates of Harvard Law are said to be the most viable for employment in the United States.