Top Schools in Legal Writing Top Legal Writing Schools in the U.S. Ranking School Name Location 1 Seattle University Seattle, WA 2 Mercer University (George) Macon, GA 3 University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Boyd) Las Vegas, NV 4 The John Marshall Law School Chicago, IL 5 Stetson University Gulfport, FL 6 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 7 Temple University (Beasley) Philadelphia, PA 8 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN 9 Boston College Newton, MA 10 Northwestern University Chicago, IL 11 Arizona State University (O’Connor) Tempe, AZ 12 Rutgers University-Camden Camden, NJ 13 Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn, NY 14 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 15 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) Chicago, IL 16 Ohio State University (Moritz) Columbus, OH 17 Brigham Young University (Clark) Provo, UT 18 Drake University Des Moines, IA 19 Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA 20 Lewis & Clark College (Northwestern) Portland, OR 21 Suffolk University Boston, MA 22 Drexel University (Mack) Philadelphia, PA 23 University of Arkansas–Fayetteville Fayetteville, AR 24 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 25 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 26 University of Detroit Mercy Detroit, MI 27 Villanova University Villanova, PA