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