St. Mary’s School of Law
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Ratings & Rankings
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More Ratings*
Student | Alumni | |
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A+ | B+ | |
C+ | A+ | |
C | A | |
B | B+ | |
B | A+ |
US News Rank
What do these ratings mean?
The ATL School and Firm Insiders Survey asks self-identified current students, alumni, and practicing lawyers to rate major aspects of life at their law school (academics, social life, clinical training, career services, financial aid advising) and/or law firm (compensation, hours, morale, culture, training). We then translate these ratings into letter grades, where the mean score for each particular ratings category is the equivalent of a “B.”
We require a minimum threshold of responses for each institution before we publish any survey-based ratings content. Using a standard formula for statistical validity, we adhere to a threshold that gives us an 85% confidence level and a 10% margin of error. The precise threshold number will of course vary depending on the size of the individual institution. For example, for a law firm of 1,000 attorneys, we would require 50 responses in order to publish ratings for the firm.
Employment
Class of 2016, data from Law School Transparency and the American Bar Association
19%
1 %
Employment 28 %
Required* 52 %
Funded 0 %
Clerkships 0 %
0 %
Large Firm
Long-term, full-time jobs at law firms that employ 101 or more attorneys. Due to data limitations,
this score may include paralegals and administrative staff.
Federal Clerkship
Long-term, full-time federal clerkships. Usually, these jobs have a duration of one year, though
sometimes graduates obtain two-year appointments or "career clerk" positions.
School Funded
All jobs funded by the school, including long-term, short-term, full-time and part-time.
Bar Passage Required*
The percentage of the entire class working in long-term, full-time positions. Excludes solo
practitioners.
Other Employment
All employment nine months after graduation, including short-term, JD advantage, professional, and
non-professional positions.
Unknown
Non-respondents and unknown credentials.
Unemployed
All unemployed students including those seeking graduate degrees and not seeking employment.
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Government | 9.64% |
Public Interest | 2.01% |
The ATL Career Center's goal is to reconcile publicly available employment data for the class of 2013, nine months after graduation. We compared data from the American Bar Association, Law School Transparency, National Association for Legal Professionals, and individual school websites. If any information is inaccurate, please contact us at careers@abovethelaw.com.
Student Career Plans
Sector | Anticipated | Actual |
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Source: ATL Insider Survey and the American Bar Association | ||
Work for a firm | 33% | 44% |
Work for government | 25% | 10% |
Work in non-profit/public interest | 29% | 2% |
Go solo | 12% |
Insider Reviews
from students and alumni of St. Mary’s School of Law
DO NOT GO TO LAW SCHOOL unless: a) it’s paid for by someone else and/or b) you have a job lined up in advance. Legal academia is a racket constrained by its own hubris (see: slavish devotion to U.S. News rankings). Unfortunately, it seems that the purpose of law schools is not to train students to be lawyers but to use them as conduits to access guaranteed federal loan money to cover exorbitant tuition rates. / / This seems especially true at poorly-ranked schools such as St. Mary’s, which don’t really register in the antiquated hierarchy of the legal profession and, accordingly, put few if any students in a position to compete for reasonable job prospects after graduation.
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