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Originally Posted by DTEJD1997
Law Skool is a funny/crazy thing. As time has passed, it has only gotten progressively more so.
A good rule of thumb is that if a skool is not in the top 20 or so (out of 200), it ain't nothing.
Why is that? The vast majority of firms that hire AND PAY good wages get the vast bulk of their associates from the top 20 skools.
Can you do OK at the 24th best ranked skool? Sure, maybe with a lot of hard work and luck.
Can you do OK at the 80th best ranked skool? Hahaha. You better be in the top 10% of the class AND have something else going on.
this is 100% accurate, there are far more legal degrees handed out each year than
only about half of the people with law degrees end up actually working for a law firm, the rest tend to do some law adjacent stuff like working as an in house council at a firm whose primary role is
not to act as a lawyer but mostly to deal with the law firms on retainer
others take the better call saul approach, and that wasn't a parody, him being broke, living case to case and always looking for a new client and payday is a very typical experience
and then others just give up and do something else like rice
had a buddy who wanted to go to law school but didn't want to leave Boston, he couldn't get into harvard et el so went to suffolk instead - it took him about a year after graduation of getting up every morning, putting on a suit, filling a brief case with copies of his resume, choosing an office building and sneaking in, going to the top floor, looking for a law firm and if not work his way down, stopping at each of them in person and asking to speak to the hiring manager
if any contact was made, he'd look up the person his interview was scheduled on LinkedIn, find anyone who was connected to them that he was connected with and then reach out to those people - no matter how distant his relationship was to them and asked them to reach out to so and so and put in a good word for him
about a year of doing this and he finally got an entry level offer - most people wouldn't have the stamina