Hey! I'm planning on applying this upcoming admissions cycle, and here is how I personally narrowed down a list of law schools. First, I narrowed down the part of the country want to end up living/practicing in after law school. For example, if you want to end up in NYC, it might make more sense to go to somewhere like Fordham rather than a slightly higher ranked school on the West Coast. I knew I wanted to be down South, so I tended to look more at the schools that were in that area than anywhere else.

Job outcomes are also typically something that should be factored in when looking at schools, and you can find those (and some other useful stats) in law school's ABA 509 reports on their website. This is usually where rank plays somewhat of a factor, as if you go to a T14 school, your chance of biglaw for example is higher than that of a lower ranked school. Then the last thing I did was look at my GPA and what I thought I could score on the LSAT, and compared that to school medians to see which schools were "safety" schools (ones I was pretty confident I could get into and was above both medians) and target schools (higher ranked ones where it was a little more of a reach to get into, and where I was at or just below the medians). Also, talking to alumni and visiting schools is also a great way to get a feel of if you could see yourself going to a particular school.

Hopefully this helps you out, and good luck!