Need Freeper info on Law Schools

[CobaltBlue]

In my experience as a lawyer, everybody wants to know where you went to law school, and if you went someplace prestigious, that impresses them and if you went someplace not prestigious, they feel like they're one up on you.

I went to Tulane, which is fancy enough to shut them up, but not as fancy as Georgetown or UVA or Harvard or Yale.

People who went to law school at UVA seem to be able to work that into a conversation within five minutes or so.

Doesn't seem to matter whether you were law review or Order of the Coif, just the name of the place matters.

Your political orientation doesn't really matter much in law school unless you're in a class about policy. The law it what it is, whether you like it or not.

You may not think that such-and-such a law is a good law, but that's irrelevant.

The first year of law school is absolutely cut-and-dried, contracts, torts, civil procedure, constitutional law, and so forth. Second year and third year you get electives.

In most classes, you won't have any idea what the teacher's politics are. If she sticks to classes like evidence and Uniform Commercial Code Secured Transactions and bankruptcy, nuts-and-bolts, she'll never know whether they vote Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian.

Even classes that you might think are trouble, like Constitutional law, if you actually study Roe v. Wade, you don't have to like it in order to explain what the justices did, or said they did.

Good practice for being a lawyer. Disassociate yourself from your personal feelings, analyze as a professional.

Charlottesville is one of the most beautiful cities in America, and very liveable. You'd both have a great time at UVA. You might have a hard time finding work there, I have no idea what you do for a living.

I went to Tulane because my husband had a job in New Orleans, making good money, but not good enough for Tulane. We borrowed a lot of money, then I had two kids during law school, had a hard time paying it back. Finally got it done but in retrospect wish I'd gone someplace cheaper.

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