- Quick Facts about BU Law, our Entering Class and our Faculty
- Top Feeder Schools for BU Law
- Employers Interviewing BU Law Students On-Campus this Year
- Employers interviewing BU Law Students Off Campus this Year
- Sampling of Government/Public Interest Groups Interviewing BU Law Students
Quick Facts
Median LSAT Score of entering class: 165 (93rd percentile)
Median GPA of entering class: 3.68
Percent of entering class with work experience prior to law school: 60%
Leiter Law School Ranking of Teacher quality: #1
Princeton Review Ranking of Faculty Quality: #1
Princeton Review Ranking of Classroom Experience: #5
Percent of Faculty who clerked before teaching: 26%
Number of Faculty who clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court: 5
Number of Faculty who clerked for US Court of appeals: 16
Student/Faculty Ratio: 12:1
Clinic Student /Faculty Ratio 6:1
Princeton Review Ranking of Career Prospects #6
U.S. News Ranking for Health Law #7
U.S. News Ranking for Tax Law #8
U.S. News Ranking for IP Law #10
Top Feeder Schools for BU Law
U of Pennsylvania
UC – Berkeley
U of Mich - Ann Arbor
Boston University
UCLA
Boston College
Princeton
Tufts
U of Washington
George Washington
UMass Amherst
Washington University
Brandeis
Columbia
Cornell
Emory
Stanford
U of Florida
U of Southern CA
Amherst College
Brown
Duke
Georgetown
Harvard
MIT
Northwestern
SUNY Binghamton
U of MD College Park
U of Rochester
Employers Interviewing BU Law Students On-Campus This Year
Arent Fox PLLC (Washington, DC)
Arnold & Porter (New York, NY)
Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson (Portland, ME)
Bingham McCutchen LLP (Boston, MA)
Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC (Syracuse, NY)
Brann & Isaacson (Lewiston, ME)
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione (Chicago, IL)
Bromberg & Sunstein LLP (Boston, MA)
Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP (Boston, MA)
Burns & Levinson LLP (Boston, MA)
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP (New York, NY)
Carmody & Torrance LLP (Waterbury, CT)
Choate, Hall & Stewart (Boston, MA)
Cohen and Wolf, P.C. (Bridgeport, CT)
Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford, LLP (Boston, MA)
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP (Palo Alto, CA)
Coughlin Duffy, LLP (Morristown, NJ)
Covington & Burling (Washington, DC)
Day Pitney LLP (Hartford, CT)
Dechert LLP (Boston, MA)
Dickinson Wright, PLLC (Detroit, MI)
Drinker Biddle & ReathLLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Dwyer & Collora, LLP (Boston, MA)
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP (Boston, MA)
Ernst & Young LLP: JD Tax Staff (Boston, MA)
Ernst & Young: LLM Tax Staff (Boston, MA)
Ernst & Young: Tax Intern (New York, NY)
Ernst & Young: Transfer Pricing Tax Staff (Boston, MA)
ExxonMobil Corporation - Tax Department (Houston, TX)
Federal Reserve Board (Washington, DC)
Federal Trade Commission (Washington, DC)
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP (Cambridge, MA)
Fish & Richardson P.C. (Boston, MA)
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto (New York, NY)
Foley & Lardner (Washington, DC)
Foley Hoag LLP (Boston, MA)
Genova Burns Vernoia (Livingston, NJ)
Goodwin Procter LLP (Boston, MA)
Goulston & Storrs, P.C. (Boston, MA)
Greenberg Traurig (Boston, MA)
Greenberg Traurig (New York, NY)
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP (Menlo Park, CA)
Hahn & Hessen LLP (New York, NY)
Harter, Secrest & Emery, LLP (Rochester, NY)
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP (Boston, MA)
Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP (Binghamton, NY)
Hiscock & Barclay, LLP (Syracuse, NY)
Holland & Knight LLP (Boston, MA)
Jorden Burt LLP (Simsbury, CT)
K&L Gates LLP (Boston, MA)
Kenyon & Kenyon (New York, NY)
King & Spalding LLP (New York, NY)
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP (Chicago, IL)
Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP (Irvine, CA)
Latham & Watkins LLP (San Diego, CA)
Littler Mendelson (San Francisco, CA)
Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP (Cambridge, MA)
McCarter & English LLP. (Newark, NJ)
McDermott, Will & Emery (Boston, MA)
McDermott, Will & Emery (New York, NY)
McKee Nelson (New York, NY)
McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton (Manchester, NH)
Miami-Dade County State Attorney (Miami, FL)
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (New York, NY)
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (Boston, MA)
Mirick O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee, LLP (Worcester, MA)
Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P. (New York, NY)
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell (Wilmington, DE)
Morrison & Foerster LLP (Palo Alto, CA)
Murtha Cullina LLP, Attorneys at Law (Hartford, CT)
Nelson, Kinder, Mosseau & Saturley, P.C. (Manchester, NH)
New Hampshire Public Defender (Concord, NH)
New Hampshire Superior Court (Manchester, NH)
Nixon Peabody LLP (Boston, MA)
Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP (Boston, MA)
Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao LLP (Cambridge, MA)
Office of Chief Counsel, IRS (Washington, DC)
Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, L.L.P. (Minneapolis, MN)
Orr & Reno, P.A. (Concord, NH)
Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, PC (New York, NY)
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (New York, NY)
Pierce Atwood LLP (Portland, ME)
Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau Pachios & Haley, LLP (Portland, ME)
Proskauer Rose LLP (Boston, MA)
Public Defender Service for DC (Washington, DC)
Pullman & Comley, LLC (Bridgeport, CT)
Rhode Island Attorney General's Office (Providence, RI)
Riemer & Braunstein LLP (Boston, MA)
Robinson & Cole LLP (Hartford, CT)
Ropes & Gray LLP (Boston, MA)
Saul Ewing LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold (Irvine, CA)
Seyfarth Shaw (Boston, MA)
Seyfarth Shaw (New York, NY)
Shipman & Goodwin LLP (Hartford, CT)
Sidley Austin LLP (Chicago, IL)
Sidley Austin LLP (New York, NY)
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (New York, NY)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Boston, MA)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (New York, NY)
Skelton, Taintor & Abbott (Auburn, ME)
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP (New York, NY)
Sullivan & Worcester LLP (Boston, MA)
Taylor Duane Barton & Gilman, LLP (Providence, RI)
Thacher Proffitt & Wood (New York, NY)
Thompson Coburn, LLP (St. Louis, MO)
Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, LLP (New Haven, CT)
U.S. Air Force JAG (Hanscom Air Force Base)
U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Admin. (Boston, MA)
U.S. Department of Transportation Honors Attorney Program
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Washington, DC)
Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C. (Hartford, CT)
US Army JAG (Arlington, VA)
Venable LLP (Washington, DC)
Verrill Dana LLP (Portland, ME)
Vetter & White (Providence, RI)
Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP (Columbus, OH)
Weil Gotshal & Manges, LLP (Boston, MA)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (New York, NY)
Wiggin & Dana LLP (New Haven, CT)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (Boston, MA)
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Palo Alto, CA)
Winston & Strawn LLP (New York, NY)
Withers Bergman LLP (New Haven, CT)
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. (Boston, MA)
Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette LLP (Waltham, MA)
Employers Interviewing BU Law Students Off Campus this Year
Alston & Bird (Atlanta, GA)
King & Spalding LLP (Atlanta, GA)
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP (Atlanta, GA)
Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (Atlanta, GA)
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP (Atlanta, GA)
Howrey LLP (Chicago, IL)
Jenner & Block LLP (Chicago, IL)
Lovells (Chicago, IL)
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP (Chicago, IL)
McDermott Will & Emery (Chicago, IL)
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP (Chicago, IL)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Chicago, IL)
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (Chicago, IL)
Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C. (Chicago, IL)
Welsh & Katz, Ltd. (Chicago, IL)
Best Best & Krieger LLP (Riverside, CA)
Bet Tzedek Legal Services (Los Angeles, CA)
Fisher & Phillips LLP (Altlanta, GA)
Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA)
Howrey LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
Kaye Scholer LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
Klinedinst PC (Los Angeles, CA)
Lavely & Singer, A Professional Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles County Public Defender (Los Angeles, CA)
McDonald Carano Wilson, LLP (Las Vegas, NV)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Irvine, CA)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
Payne & Fears LLP (Irvine, CA)
Richards Watson & Gershon (Los Angeles, CA)
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (Costa Mesa, CA)
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (San Diego, CA)
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner (Los Angeles)
Akerman Senterfitt (Miami, FL)
Bay Area Legal Services, Inc. (Tampa, FL)
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod (Miami, FL)
Carlton Fields (Tampa, FL)
Fowler White Burnett, P.A. (Miami, FL)
Jorden Burt (Miami, FL)
Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. (Miami, FL)
Office of the Public Defender, 19th Circuit (Ft. Pierce, FL)
Office of the State Attorney, 17th Judicial Circuit (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Office of the State Attorney, Eighteenth Judicial Circuit (Viera, FL)
Proskauer Rose LLP (Boca Raton, FL)
Shutts & Bowen LLP (Miami, FL)
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (Miami, FL)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Miami, FL)
United States Coast Guard JAG (Washington, DC)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Miami, FL)
Bernstein Shur (Portland, ME)
Devine Millimet (Manchester, NH)
Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella, PLLC (Exeter, NH)
Eaton Peabody (Bangor, ME)
Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, P.A. (Concord. NH)
Gross, Minsky & Mogul, P.A. (Bangor, ME)
McLane Law Firm (Manchester, NH)
Nelson, Kinder, Mosseau & Saturley, P.C. (Manchester, NH)
New Hampshire Attorney General's Office (Concord, NH)
New Hampshire Public Defender (Concord, NH)
Normandin, Cheney & O'Neil (Laconia, NH)
Orr & Reno (Concord, NH)
Pierce Atwood, LLP (Portland, ME)
Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, & Pachios, LLP (Portland, ME)
Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA (Manchester, NH)
Sulloway & Hollis, P.L.L.C. (Concord, NH)
Wadleigh, Starr & Peters, P.L.L.C. (Manchester, NH)
Wiggin & Nourie, P.A. (Manchester, NH)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (New York, NY)
Allen & Overy LLP (New York, NY)
Alston & Bird LLP (New York, NY)
Arent Fox LLP
Baker Botts LLP
Bronx County District Attorney's Office
Brown Rudnick (New York)
Bryan Cave LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP (New York, NY)
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance US LLP
Connell Foley LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Cullen and Dykman LLP (Brooklyn Heights, NY)
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dewey Ballantine LLP
Dickstein Shapiro (New York, NY)
Ford Marrin Esposito Witmeyer & Gleser, L.L.P. (New York, NY)
Fox Rothschild LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP (New York, NY)
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP (New York, NY)
Greenbaum, Rowe, Smth & Davis LLP
Heller Ehrman LLP (New York, NY)
Hogan & Hartson LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
Jones Day
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (New York, NY)
Kaye Scholer LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP (Stamford, CT)
Linklaters
Lovells (New York, NY)
Lowenstein Sandler PC
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP
McCarter & English
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Moses & Singer (New York, NY)
Mound Cotton Wollen & Greengrass (New York, NY)
New York City Law Department (New York, NY)
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Office of the Queens County District Attorney (Kew Gardens, NY)
O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P. (New York, NY)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
Patton Boggs LLP (New York, NY)
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP (New York, NY)
Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C.
Reed Smith LLP (New York, NY)
Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Seward & Kissel LLP (New York, NY)
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C.
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (New York, NY)
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP (New York, NY)
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP (New York, NY)
White & Case LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP (New York, NY)
Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, PA (Bridgewater, NJ)
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Blank Rome LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Conrad O'Brien Gellman & Rohn PC (Philadelphia, PA)
Duane Morris LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Pepper Hamilton LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (Philadelphia, PA)
Reed Smith LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Saul Ewing LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Wolf Block Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Downey Brand LLP (Sacramento, CA)
Garvey Schubert Barer (Seattle, WA)
Lang Richert & Patch (Fresno, CA)
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP (San Francisco, CA)
Nixon Peabody LLP (San Francisco, CA)
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (San Francisco, CA)
Reed Smith LLP (San Francisco, CA)
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (Palo Alto, CA)
The Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center (San Francisco, CA)
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP (San Francisco, CA)
Tonkon Torp LLP (Portland, OR)
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP (San Francisco, CA)
Williams Kastner (Seattle, WA)
Arnold & Porter LLP (Washington, DC)
Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Rockville, MD)
Central Intelligence Agency (Washington, DC)
Crowell & Moring (Washington, DC)
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. (Washington, DC)
Federal Election Commission (Washington, DC)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Washington, DC)
Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection (Washington, DC)
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson (Washington, DC)
Goodwin Procter LLP (Washington, DC)
Hogan & Hartson LLP (Washington, DC)
Howrey LLP (Washington, DC)
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo (Washington, DC)
Patton Boggs LLP (Washington, DC)
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation - Chief Counsel (Washington, DC)
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation - General Counsel (Washington, DC)
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP (Wilmington, DE)
Seward & Kissel (Washington, DC)
Steptoe & Johnson LLP (Washington, DC)
Sughrue Mion, PLLC (Washington, DC)
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP (Washington, DC)
U.S. Department of Transportation (Washington, DC)
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (Washington, DC)
U.S. Senate Office of the Legislative Counsel (Washington, DC)
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP (Baltimore)
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (Washington, DC)
Sampling of Government/Public Interest Groups Interviewing BU Law Students
Bronx County District Attorney's Office (Bronx, NY)
Children's Legal Services, Inc. (Brookline, MA)
Committee for Public Counsel Services (Boston)
Connecticut Department of Public Health (Hartford, CT)
Delaware Department of Justice, Attorney General's Office (Wilmington, DE)
Department of the Navy, Office of the General Counsel (Washington, DC)
DNA - People's Legal Services, Inc. (Window Rock, AZ)
Federal Election Commission (Washington, DC)
Greater Boston Legal Services (Boston, MA)
Harris County District Attorney's Office (Houston, TX)
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (Cambridge, MA)
Legal Advocacy and Resource Center (Boston, MA)
Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts (Worcester, MA)
New Hampshire Army National Guard, Judge Advocate General's Corps (Concord, NH)
New Hampshire Public Defender (Concord, NH)
New York County District Attorney's Office (New York, NY)
Rhode Island Department of Attorney General (Providence, RI)
Rhode Island Public Defender (Providence, RI)
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid (El Paso, TX)
The Legal Aid Society of New York City (New York)
U.S. Air Force JAG (Hanscom AFB, MA)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Boston)
U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section (Newton, MA)
U.S. EPA New England (Boston)
U.S. Navy JAG Corps (Worldwide)
United States Coast Guard (Washington, DC)