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2025
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Law.com annual ranking of graduates hired as associates
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by the largest 100 law firms in the country
2026
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2026
U.S. News and World Report Rankings
42nd
in Contracts/Commercial Law
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Why Houston Law
The University of Houston Law Center provides excellence and opportunity to students of all backgrounds. Its location in Houston, the fourth largest, and most diverse, city in the U.S., gives students and graduates access to one of the world's largest legal markets. The city is also home to the world’s largest health care and medical complex and recognized as the energy capital of the world with multiple Fortune 500 companies headquartered here.
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The Law Center also had four specialty programs ranked No.1 in Texas:
- Part-time Program
- Health Care law
- Intellectual Property
- Legal Writing
U.S. News & World Report, 2026
LATEST NEWS
University of Houston Law Center Unveils New John M. O' Quinn Law Building Signage
July 29, 2026 — The name John M. O’Quinn (J.D. ’67) has long been synonymous with excellence, achievement and generosity at the University of Houston Law Center. Now updated exterior signage and interior commemorative plaque at the John M. O’Quinn Law Building will help ensure future generations of law students will continue to have a bold, visible reminder of the law graduate whose vision and support helped shaped the institution.
UH Law Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson Honored with Michael A. Olivas Education Excellence Award
July 27, 2026 – University of Houston Law Center’s Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson has received the Professor Michael Olivas Education Excellence Award from the State Bar of Texas Hispanic Lawyers Section, recognizing her decades of contribution to legal education and service to the profession.
Remembering Justice Ruby Kless Sondock: Trailblazing Texas Jurist and UH Law Alumna Dies at 100
July, 23, 2026 — The University of Houston Law Center mourns the passing of alumna Justice Ruby Kless Sondock (J.D. ’61), a pioneering jurist and the first female justice on the Texas Supreme Court whose career transformed the Texas legal system. She was 100.
