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To: Wallace T.
The problem with law schools like Pat Robertson's and Managhan's is that you cannot get a decent job coming out of them, assuming they are even sufficiently accredited to allow you to take the bar in all states.

Unless you want to be a solo practicitioner, a small town lawyer where you grew up, or have a parent who is a partner in a law firm that will take you in, the employment record of a law school's graduates has to be an important factor in your decision which law school to attend.

The sad fact is that unless you attend one of the 25 or so "top ten" national law schools, you will have great difficulty (even as the top 5%/law review editor) getting a job at a major national or regional law firm or a reasonable federal or state judicial clerkship. My advice, after some 20+ years of practice, is to go to the best law school you can get into and finance/afford. If you had a choice between Harvard Law and $50,000 in debt vs. University of the Pacific Law School and no debt, you would be absolutely crazy not to go to Harvard.

In California, Stanford trumps everything, then Berkeley, then UCLA, then USC, then Hastings and UC Davis. From there, it isn't competitive.

In the South, Univesrity of Virignia, UNC-Chapel Hill and Vanderbuilt, are tops, followed by William & Mary and Washington & Lee. Emory and Wake Forest are wannabes

In the Midwest, there's Chicago, then Northwestern and Michigan, and then Notre Dame. Wisconson is also national.

In the Northeast, it's the usual suspects: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, and Cornell, then Georgetown and NYU.

If you want to stay local, you could go to the best state university law school in your state.

5 posted on 04/01/2003 7:22:55 AM PST by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Mesopotamiam Esse Delendam)
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To: CatoRenasci
A friend of mine got his law degree from Stanford... he says that it's only 98% of lawyers who give all the rest a bad name. :)
8 posted on 04/01/2003 7:33:27 AM PST by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, Zoolander)
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To: CatoRenasci
In California, Stanford trumps everything, then Berkeley

So... are there, um, any liberal professors at Berkeley Law School?

12 posted on 04/01/2003 7:49:29 AM PST by WaveThatFlag
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To: CatoRenasci
Don't forget that you also need to make the top ten percent. The other ninety percent just exist to prop up the ten...
32 posted on 04/01/2003 3:54:26 PM PST by Mamzelle
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