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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;Contrary to widespread belief, &lt;?xml:namespace prefix=&quot;st1&quot; ns=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&quot;?&gt;&lt;st1:country-region w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Canada&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; is an actual, independent nation, apparently bordering on &lt;st1:state w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Vermont&lt;/st1:state&gt; and/or &lt;st1:state w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Minnesota&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;It even has its own law schools!&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix=&quot;o&quot; ns=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot;?&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;Maclean&#39;s&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;--Canada&#39;s version of &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;Time, Newsweek&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;US News&lt;/i&gt; all rolled into one--just put out its first law school rankings.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The methodology, developed under the guidance of rankings guru &lt;a class=&quot;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.leiterrankings.com/&quot; target=&quot;Brian Leiter&quot;&gt;Brian Leiter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Tops among the &quot;civil law&quot; (French tradition) schools was Montreal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;One of the 3 measures of student and graduate quality is &quot;Elite Firm Hiring.&quot;&amp;nbsp; Each school&#39;s total number of &quot;elite&quot; firm hires was divided by the size of its first-year class.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;To identify these firms, &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;MacLean&#39;s&lt;/i&gt; relied on the Lexpert list of the leading Canadian law firms. The magazine also &quot;counted hires by the five leading &lt;st1:state w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;New York&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; law firms, as measured by Vault.&quot;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(Interesting how &quot;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:state w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;New York&quot;&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; is used here--our Associate Survey is a measure of national prestige.)&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Also, nowhere in the article is any explanation of what &quot;Vault&quot; is.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Could be confusing for our Northern neighbors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;According to &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;Maclean&#39;s&lt;/i&gt;, there are 2,103 &quot;elite&quot; firm associates between the Lexpert and Vault lists.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;By our unofficial count, here are the &quot;&lt;st1:state w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;New York&quot;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; numbers (we counted all offices):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;Sullivan &amp;amp; Cromwell:&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;15 associates (2 partners)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;Simpson Thacher:&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;11 (2)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;Wachtell:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;3 (0)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Davis&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Polk:&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;12 (3)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;Skadden:&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;9 (4)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;(Interestingly, Sullivan &amp;amp; Cromwell&#39;s most famous Canadian is a &lt;em&gt;former &lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;The piece also features an interesting Q&amp;amp;A with Professor Leiter.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;In response to the question, &quot;What are we trying to measure in our &#39;elite law firm hiring&#39; measure?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;The demand for graduates of particular schools which is probably the best indicator of how the leading professionals view the schools. It&#39;s one thing to say, &quot;That law school is very good&quot;; it&#39;s another thing to &quot;put your money where your mouth is&quot; and actually hire graduates of that school in significant numbers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-tab-count: 8&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;- posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;

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