The National Law Journal's annual list, without much difference from past iterations. Chicago has been sending a slightly higher percentage of the class into clerkships, which given the tightness of the results, matters. Yale's relatively weak showing is no doubt due to a large number of students clerking and/or pursuing academia in one form or another (JD/PhDs, postdocs etc.). NLJ does not, of course, look at hiring at high-powered boutiques, like Susman Godfrey or Bartlit Beck.



I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…