<p>As a long ago graduate of SUNY Buffalo Law School, I have to agree wholeheartedly with marny1. If for whatever reason (financial, lack of acceptances to T-14 type law schools) you choose to go to SUNY, know that unless you can be amongst the top in your class, it’s very difficult to break into what is now called “biglaw” from a school like Buffalo. What is does provide is a terrific, low cost legal education that will position you very well for a job at many fine upstate New York firms or smaller, less known NY metro firms. It’s just that those firms are more familiar with Buffalo graduates and are more inclined to hire them. Mind you, this is not based on statistical evidence I am privy to, but on many years of watching upstate friends hire for their firms. When I graduated an eternity ago a very small % of my class went to NY/LA/DC directly out of school.</p>