<p><a href=“http://informeddecisionmaking.blogspot.com%5B/url%5D”>http://informeddecisionmaking.blogspot.com</a>
<a href=“http://calicocat.com/2004/08/law-school-big-lie.html[/url]”>http://calicocat.com/2004/08/law-school-big-lie.html</a>
<a href=“Latest News - ABA Journal”>http://abajournal.com/news/triplt_bad_news_for_law_students_three_firms_aX_summer_associate_programs/</a>
<a href=“Latest News - ABA Journal”>http://abajournal.com/news/as_rio_tinto_saves_millions_other_corps_will_outsource_too_counsel_says/</a>
<a href=“http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/02/03/dont-try-to-dodge-the-recession-with-grad-school/[/url]”>http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/02/03/dont-try-to-dodge-the-recession-with-grad-school/</a>
<a href=“http://lawschoolscam.blogspot.com%5B/url%5D”>http://lawschoolscam.blogspot.com</a>
<a href=“DealBook - The New York Times”>DealBook - The New York Times;
<a href=“http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media/storage/paper522/news/2009/09/15/News/Law-Students.Face.Tough.Job.Market-3771810.shtml[/url]”>http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media/storage/paper522/news/2009/09/15/News/Law-Students.Face.Tough.Job.Market-3771810.shtml</a></p>
<p>[Law</a> school: the big lie](<a href=“http://calicocat.com/2004/08/law-school-big-lie.html]Law”>http://calicocat.com/2004/08/law-school-big-lie.html)
very good quote from the above article
"There are some lawyers who start out with a good salary. They work for what they call “BIGLAW” on the internet message boards. Big law firms pay their associates a starting salary in the six figures. But here’s the sad news: only a tiny percentage of law school graduates will ever get these six figure jobs at big law firms. Unless you go to a top law school, the six figure big law firm job will most likely not be yours.</p>
<p>There are only 14 top law schools. That’s right. Not 10, not 15, but 14. They are, in descending order of prestige: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, UC Berkeley, and Georgetown. And that’s it. Go to any other law school, and your chances of getting a big law firm job will be slim to none.</p>
<p>There are also distinct levels of prestige within the top 14. Yale, Harvard, and Stanford are head and shoulders above the rest. Then Columbia, NYU and maybe Chicago round out the top 6. Attending one of these top top law schools will vastly improve your odds. The guy graduating at the bottom of the class at Harvard will have better career opportunities than the guy graduating at the top of the class at an ordinary law school.
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<p>You don’t go to a T20 your not getting recruited which in this job market for lawyer is KILLER. </p>
<p>Obviously you know people that are exceptions but don’t except these law firms to come knocking. You might believe your the next Johnny Cochrane however unless your in a T20 the door will basically be shut.</p>
<p>Hell according to that article if your not in a t14 law school your shot at a big firm is nil</p>
<p>I can go on and on with website that prove this and if you don’t believe me because obviously you won’t then i wish you the best of luck
and don’t say no one warned you</p>