Cleveland is home to some of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, with the top Bar Pass rate in the State and 20th best in the nation, has a history of extraordinary success in placing its grads in major law firms in Cleveland, as well as other big cities across the country.
based on 2020 ABA data ranked ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Law School 45th best in the nation based on the percentage of recent grads that obtained positions at firms with 100 or more lawyers across the country.
This year, Jones Day, the 5th largest U.S. law firm, hired five School of Law 2021 graduates as associates. Forty Jones Day attorneys in Cleveland, New York, and Washington, D.C. are ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni.
Meanwhile, 28 graduates of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø are attorneys at Squire Patton Boggs, the 16th largest law firm in the U.S. The managing partner of the firm’s flagship Cleveland Office is a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø graduate, Michelle Connell. For the past two years, Squire has hired a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 3L to be an associate in the firm’s top-ranked International Arbitration practice group which is headed by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Law adjunct professor Stephen Anway.
Other large firms in Cleveland with a significant number of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni working as attorneys include BakerHostetler (56 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni), Tucker Ellis (41 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni), Benesch Friedlander (40 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni), Ulmer & Berne (33 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni), Calfee Halter (30 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni), Thompson Hine (27 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni), Reminger Co., LPA (27 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni), Vorys (25 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni), McDonald Hopkins (22 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni) and Hahn Loeser (18 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumni).