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#What is the definition of a second tier law school?

Justin Liu Harvard Law School, Class of 2010

Unfortunately, according to multiple sources, the U.S. News and World Report seems to only list schools as Tier 1, Tier 3, and Tier 4, at least in 2009. AboveTheLaw and the Law Librarian Blog both noted this. According to the Law Librarian Blog, in 2009 there were 104 schools under the Tier 1 heading, 37 schools in Tier 3, and 43 schools in Tier 4.

This implies to me, intuitively, that Tier 1 would be the law schools ranked 1-49 and that Tier 2 would be the law schools ranked 50-99, in order to have equally sized tiers that are roughly in line with the idea that Tiers 3 and 4 had a similar number of law schools as each other.

It may also be the case that there are no Tier 2 or second tier law schools, just a large batch of Tier 1 schools and a sudden and severe decline into Tier 3 after that.

I think there s obviously some gray area, but thankfully second tier law school is not an important concept to anyone in the legal field I ve ever heard of.

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