The top-paying legal fields are corporate law, intellectual property law, tax law, and criminal defense. The top-paying cities for lawyers are New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco. And the top-paying law firms are Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Kirkland & Ellis; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Harvard Law School graduates earn some of the highest salaries of any law school graduates. The median salary for a Harvard Law School graduate is $195,000, and the average salary is $210,000. Harvard Law School graduates also have the highest employment rate of any law school graduates, with 98% of graduates employed within nine months of graduation.