BLS Ranked as a Top School for Externship Opportunities
The National Jurist ranked Brooklyn Law School #7 nationally for externship opportunities. Read more.
LL.M. Program Ranked 2nd in New York
Brooklyn Law School’s new LL.M. program was recently ranked in The New York Law Journal Reader Rankings as the second best program in New York. Read more.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Brooklyn Law School 15th in the nation for its Legal Writing program in 2010. The Law School was the only school in New York that ranked among the top thirty. The Law School's well-established Clinical Program was ranked 28th in the nation.
Law School Reports Over 20% of Class of 2009 Hired by the Nation's Top 250 Firms
Brooklyn Law School graduates are consistently recruited by the top law firms in the nation. Of our graduating Class of 2009, over 20% were hired as first-year associates by the nation’s top law firms. However, a recent issue of the National Law Journal, and its Web site, which highlighted law schools with the highest percentage of graduates hired by NLJ top 250 firms, omitted Brooklyn Law School from its “Go-To-School” rankings.
According to the data that BLS reports to the National Association for Law Placement, as of September 1, 2009, 102 members of the Brooklyn Law School Class of 2009, or 20.4%, had been hired as first-year associates by the nation’s top law firms. This means that Brooklyn Law School should have been ranked among the top 50 law schools. This is more consistent with a 2008 Leiter study that ranked Brooklyn Law School fourth in New York City for the number of graduates hired as new lawyers by 15 of the nation’s super elite law firms.
View list of Class of 2009 placements at top firms.
View 2008 Leiter rankings.
The National Jurist Names Brooklyn Law School Among Four of the Best Schools for Public Service Law
Brooklyn Law School is among the four best public service law schools in the nation, according to an article in the February 2010 issue of The National Jurist. Using data collected by The Equal Justice Works Guide to Law Schools, The National Jurist selected four schools for the “public service honor roll” – Brooklyn Law School, Boston University School of Law, Cornell Law School and the University of Maryland School of Law. Among other criteria for selection, these schools all offer substantial financial support to students pursuing public service law; an office or administrator solely dedicated to area; access to alumni, working professionals and others in the field; a vast array of hands-on projects; a strong social network for students; and awards for public service.
Read The National Jurist: “Public Service Honor Roll”
Read TaxProf Blog: “The Four Best Public Service Law Schools”
Leiter Ranks BLS Among Top 40 Law Schools for Student Quality
This fall, Brian Leiter’s survey, a highly respected and comprehensive assessment of law school performance, measured the average of the 75th and 25th percentile LSAT scores and the corresponding 75th/25th GPA for the class that entered law schools in 2008.
As published in his Law School Rankings Web site, Brooklyn Law was ranked #39 in terms of student numerical quality, one of only five New York metro area law schools cited.
The complete listing can be found at: www.leiterrankings.com/new/2009student_quality.shtml
Recent Change in Transfer Application Policy
Beginning January 2010, Brooklyn Law will consider transfer applications from candidates at other law schools as soon as their Fall 2009 grades are released. This means that for transfer applicants who apply by January for August 2010 entry, BLS may be able to offer admission as early as February, instead of waiting until mid-summer for that decision. Of course, enrollment in the fall will remain subject to proof of commensurate academic performance during the spring term at the prior law school.
This early notice is intended to minimize the anxiety that accompanies the transfer process.