1.   Northwestern University School of Law-55.9%
2.    Columbia Law School-54.5%
3.   Stanford Law School-54.1%
4.    University of Chicago Law School-53.1%
5.    University of Virginia School of Law-52.8%
6.    University of Michigan Law School-51%
7.    University of Pennsylvania Law School-50.8%
8.    New York University School of Law-50.1%
9.    UC Berkeley School of Law-50%
10.  Duke Law School-49.8%

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Charles M. Naselsky joins from Blank Rome as a partner. His JD is from the Seton Hall University School of Law. He is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Philadelphia Bar Associations.

Jon G. Hillsberg also joins from Blank Rome as a partner. With Naselsky, he represents entrepreneurial, entertainment, real estate, banking and private equity companies in a broad range of commercial finance, private equity ventures and real estate matters. His JD is from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Founded in 1989, Deeb Petrakis Blum & Murphy is a full-service law firm with headquarters in Center City Philadelphia, and offices in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

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Robert C. Reynolds, Jr. is an outsourcing lawyer who co-founded Alston & Bird’s energy infrastructure team. He received his JD from the Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was an editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. He is admitted to practice law in Georgia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He will work from both Atlanta and Seyfarth’s Washington DC office.

Shawn K. Baldwin, who joins in Atlanta, focuses on strategic corporate transactions. He got his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is admitted to the Georgia Bar.

S. Joel Cartee, who also joins in Atlanta, handles complex global transactions and matters relayed to the Kyoto Protocol. He is a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia. He received his JD from the University of Alabama School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in Georgia.

Chicago’s Seyfarth Shaw LLP is a full-service law firm founded in 1945. It has ten offices.

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All 11 will join Morgan Lewis’ Boston-based Business and Finance Practice, which spans the United States, Europe, and Asia, with nearly 400 transactional lawyers who focus on a wide variety of areas, including finance, bankruptcy and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital markets.

Robert A. J. Barry joins as partner; he focuses his practice on the structuring and restructuring of domestic and international financing transactions. He received his JD from Villanova University School of Law in 1987.

Partner Jonathan K. Bernstein’s practice focuses on general corporate finance, including debt financing, structured financing, workouts, and bankruptcies across numerous industries, including energy, transportation, media, sports and numerous national and regional restaurant chains. He received his JD, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1987.

Sula R. Fiszman joins as partner; she represents financial institutions, private equity funds, and other companies in complex senior secured finance transactions, subordinated and second lien lending transactions, structured finance, workouts, and bankruptcies. She received her JD cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1984 and her MA from the University of Chicago in 1981.

Patner Matthew F. Furlon represents leading financial institutions and borrowers in a broad range of finance and business matters, including domestic and international debt, mezzanine and equity financing, debt restructurings, asset-based credit facilities, second lien credit facilities, acquisition finance and retail finance, and multinational credit facilities. He got his JD magna cum laude from Boston College Law School in 1994.

Sandra J. Vrejan joins as partner; she focuses her practice on a broad range of domestic and international commercial finance, secured transactions, and financial restructurings. She received her JD from Hofstra University School of Law in 1995.

Philadelphia-based Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is a law firm that was founded as Morgan & Lewis in 1873. It has 1,400 lawyers in 22 offices worldwide.

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Robert H. Edwards, Jr. joins from Hunton & Williams as a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office. He handles project finance and development, with particular strength in projects and policy issues related to renewable energy, climate change, the development and financing of independent power projects and “inside the fence” energy projects.

A 1990 graduate of Stanford Law School, Edwards holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA magna cum laude in economics from Harvard University.

Robert S. Goldberg joins the Houston office from Chadbourne & Parke, as a partner. Goldberg advises lenders, investors, sponsors, developers and other participants in domestic and international project finance and corporate matters, including acquisition and divestiture work.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Mayer Brown is one of the largest global law firms both by number of lawyers and revenue. The firm has over 1,800 lawyers in key business centers across the Americas, Asia and Europe

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The top 20 are:

1. Yale Law School
2. Harvard Law School
3. Stanford Law School
4. Columbia Law School
5. New York University School of Law
6. University of California Berkeley School of Law – tie – University of Chicago Law School
8. University of Pennsylvania Law School
9. University of Michigan Law School
10. Duke University School of Law – tie – Northwestern University School of Law – tie – University of Virginia School of Law
13. Cornell Law School
14. Georgetown University Law Center
15. UCLA School of Law – tie – University of Texas School of Law
17. Vanderbilt University Law School
18. University of Southern California Gould School of Law
19. Washington University School of Law
20. Boston University School of Law – tie- Emory University School of Law – tie – University of Minnesota Law School

The unobservant might miss the most important story here — that UCLA beat USC by two slots! You can’t spell SUCK without USC!!!

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