An excellent example of a successful local school is Newark, New Jersey’s Seton Hall University School of Law. Beyond New Jersey, Seton Hall is known, if at all, for its basketball program, notwithstanding the school’s recent upgrade to state-of-the-art facilities and a high ranking in a Princeton Review--National Jurist magazine "student satisfaction" poll based on faculty, facilities and quality of life.

Eighty-percent of Seton Hall’s nearly fourteen hundred students are from New Jersey; virtually all will (eventually) work in New Jersey after graduation. Nationally, the only school which places a higher percentage of its graduates in judicial clerkships is a much smaller one in New Haven, Connecticut.

Seton Hall works for New Jersey residents, or those who would be New Jersey residents, and want to work in New Jersey.