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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on her personality.

She could do the aforementioned grinding to get into a T14 and strive for clerkships or BigLaw and work insane hours for great money.

She could go for a more middle class career working for  a mid-level firm (but she might have to work just as hard as BigLaw) or in government.

She could be an idealist who works in public interest law making a low salary assisting low income clients with far lower hours than BigLaw but incredible stress.

She could get an in-house role (probably after BigLaw) or start her own firm (probably after working at a small or mid-size firm) or work in a JD-advantage compliance type position...

[b]The key is not to take on enormous debt if you're not going to go the BigLaw route.[/b] I went to a good regional school with a full scholarship and have worked solely for the government in research and advisory type positions (no going to court) and am very happy with that. And I know of plenty of lawyers who went to much lower-ranked schools than I did with good careers at local firms, as judges, in good government jobs, in local politics, etc.[/quote]

I would say don’t take on the big debt period, no matter what “route” you might intend to take. I went to a T1 law school that cost a fortune, and a lot of my peers who planned on going “the BigLaw route” as you put it never got anywhere near that kind of a job and have struggled with their loans for decades. [/quote]

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