Cleveland is home to some of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country and ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, 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 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ 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 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni.
Meanwhile, 28 graduates of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ 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 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ graduate, Michelle Connell. For the past two years, Squire has hired a ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ 3L to be an associate in the firm’s top-ranked International Arbitration practice group which is headed by ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Law adjunct professor Stephen Anway.
Other large firms in Cleveland with a significant number of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni working as attorneys include BakerHostetler (56 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni), Tucker Ellis (41 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni), Benesch Friedlander (40 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni), Ulmer & Berne (33 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni), Calfee Halter (30 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni), Thompson Hine (27 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni), Reminger Co., LPA (27 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni), Vorys (25 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni), McDonald Hopkins (22 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni) and Hahn Loeser (18 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni).