Fordham has an incredibly well-represented alumni base in biglaw in NYC. According to Leiter's rankings, Fordham is #15 for job placement in V100 firms.
http://www.leiterrankings.com/jobs/2008job_biglaw.shtml
It's true that Fordham grads can get the top jobs in NYC, but I'm looking at how well schools place their entire graduating class in biglaw. Leiter's most recent study doesn't purport to look at job placement in V100 firms... he actually prefaces those charts by stating "Note that this is not a study of national placement power of law schools, since the super elite firms are overwhelmingly clustered in the Northeast corridor and in California; earlier studies are a better measure of the ‘national’ reach of a degree." The earlier study he links to is a better starting point (here's the results page:
http://www.calvin.edu/admin/csr/students/sullivan/law/results.htm), but it still doesn't achieve what I think is a much better indicator of employment prospects: where each graduate of the most recent classes from different schools are finding work. And for that, all you need to do is ask the schools for the data (probably once you have acceptances in hand so you have more bargaining power) and then post. Schools have this information but have traditionally chosen not to make it public. And if they refuse you can try and obtain their recruitment handbooks which should show summer employment for all 1Ls/2Ls.
Also, Leiter's study is historical; it's looking at the total number of associates from different schools. That is as problematic as gauging your odds of acceptance by using hourmd.com... it doesn't reflect the current market. We went through last spring's recruitment handbook to see how the current Vanderbilt 3Ls did with firm placement last summer... out of approximately 195 students (don't know how many transfers they have in their class), I have data for 182 of them. 152 worked as SAs... At least 119 of them (approx 61% of the class, or 78% of all the SAs) summered at NLJ250 firms. Most of them (at least 79, or approx 41% of the entire class) were in the V100. 26 summered in NY offices. 20 were in V24 firms, and 14 were with one of the firms Leiter looked at in his study. If all 14 returned to their firms (either straight out or after clerking), that would give us 0.57 for '09 grads... which would be higher than Fordham's historical placement in those same firms.
Obviously, this comparison is unfair; what you actually need is someone from Fordham to get you that same information for recent classes, and even then it won't show you everything. My point is just to be careful in reading through different studies and rankings... Leiter puts out some great stuff that's significantly more valuable than USNews or Vault rankings, but it still won't compare to the raw data each school you're looking at can offer. I'm going to double-check my numbers now and will edit this post with a link to the spreadsheet in a bit.
[Edited for correct numbers using the '09 V100 list... haven't figured out the best way to publish the spreadsheet yet, but I've got a web guru/1L who should be able to help me out this week assuming he's not too busy stalking our classmates on these discussion boards.]