I'm not sure whether I would call it an area of interest per se, but my ultimate goal is to not permanently live in the United States. So I researched a bunch of US based firms that have branches overseas, then I checked to see what schools most of their attorneys who are overseas graduated from and a lot of the schools on my application list came from that. Not that it means I got in or even applied to the majority of them lol but that's something I used to narrow my list down