How important is a top law school?

<p>Yes, you should be able to become a PD out of either of those. Also, it's "Cardozo."</p>

<p>Greybeard, I really appreciate your personal experience. I think you and I are on the same side of this debate.</p>

<p>I guess there'll always be starkly differing opinions on this issue. My undergraduate and law alma maters are considered elite, but I've got to stand on the fact that experience has shown me the fine value, job-wise, of the reputations of many, many other law schools. No one in their right minds will tell you that Harvard grads don't get jobs in the hinterlands. But what do we tell applicants to non-Ivy League law schoos? Fughettabouit?</p>

<p>A close friend quickly moved up the ladder to deputy bureau chief at the Manhattan DA's office after earning a degree part-time from Rutgers Law. A classmate clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court, and is now a Bush Administration (ugh!) United States Attorney. Our alma mater has been considered elite just in recent years. I myself met and got acquainted with a supreme court justice more than once. The law firm I knew best was one of the largest on the west coast; a fine firm with big-time corporate clients from Alaska to California; sure, some of the attorneys had credentials from Stanford and the like, and there was a single Yalie. But there were young alumni also from the law schools of Seattle University, Arizona State, Lewis and Clark, and U of Iowa.</p>