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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you less likely to hire someone from a lesser known college/university, than a well known one?

At what point does the college and university no longer matter? [/quote]

For a law firm, an applicant's undergraduate school generally doesn't matter too much.  Attending a top university for undergraduate and a third-tier law school might be a red flag, but we wouldn't recruit from a third-tier law school, with a few local exceptions.  On the other hand, attending a lesser known college or university and then attending a top law school suggests you did very well as an undergraduate, so that makes a positive impression.  Typically, we're just going to see a ton of kids who went to top colleges and universities and then well known law schools.

What matters most is attending a top law school and doing well.  Yale Law students get more scrutiny because Yale graduates are notoriously impractical.  Harvard and Stanford students get a boost because of the prestige of those schools.  Otherwise, it doesn't matter if you attended Chicago, Columbia, UVA, Georgetown, Penn, Duke, NYU, or Northwestern.  We're just looking for good grades and a can-do attitude.  We'll look at some local law schools in addition to Georgetown.  If you attended one of those schools, you'll need to stand out to get an interview or offer, but some of our best associates have come from local schools, especially GW and George Mason (Scalia).    [/quote]

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