According to Yale Law School's ABA-required disclosures, 83% of the Class of 2019 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required or JD-advantage employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo practitioners.

[5] Yale Law alumni include many prominent figures in law and politics, including U.S. presidents Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton, U.S. vice president JD Vance, U.S. secretaries of state Cyrus Vance and Hillary Clinton, U.S. secretaries of the treasury Henry H. Fowler and Robert Rubin, and nine U.S. attorneys general.

Other alumni also include current U.S. Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as multiple former justices, including Abe Fortas, Potter Stewart and Byron White; several heads of state, including German president Karl Carstens, Philippine president Jose P. Laurel, and Malawi president Peter Mutharika; U.S. senators, governors, and officials; and the current deans of three of the top fourteen-ranked law schools in the United States: Penn, Northwestern, and Georgetown.

[7] A special relationship or connection developed between YLS and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Some of the faculty members who became Second Circuit judges continued to teach courses at YLS and chose their clerks from student graduates.

[8] In 2022, two federal appeals judges, James C. Ho and Elizabeth L. Branch, stopped hiring Yale Law graduates as clerks because of concerns the school suppresses conservative views.

[9][10] The school responded by initiating actions to "reaffirm its commitment to free speech", which included an orientation about "free expression" and "respectful engagement", the appointment of a new dean to help law students "resolve disagreements", and a prohibition on secret recordings and disruption of campus events.

[11] Another feature of Yale Law's culture since the 1930s, among both faculty and student graduates, has been an emphasis on the importance of spending at least a few years in government service.

In November 2013, it was announced that a $25 million donation would bring student dormitory living back onto campus, with renovations to begin in 2018.

[23] In November 2022, Yale made a voluntary decision to pull out of the U.S. News & World Report Best Law Schools rankings.

Its small class size and prestige combine to make its admissions process the most competitive in the United States.

[25] After an initial round of screening by the admissions department, approximately 25% of applications are independently evaluated by three different faculty members.

degree at Yale Law School and exhibit the promise of delivering outstanding scholarly contributions.

[30] Yale Law School houses over two dozen clinics that allow students to represent clients in real-world legal problems.

[31] Yale Law's clinics cover a wide range of issue areas and legal fields.

[39] According to Yale Law School's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 78.8% of the Class of 2013 accepted full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners.