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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]A firm is going to just throw my resume in the garbage because I didn't go to the right school, even though I have actual experience in the area they practice in?[/quote]

[b]YES.[/b]  Your HR experience is not going to be the same sort of asset as, say, an advanced science degree would be for an aspiring patent attorney or Wall Street experience for an aspiring securities attorney.  Please listen to the folks on here -- it is extremely difficult for a graduate of a lower-tier law school to get any job, much less one at a firm.  In this market, even graduates of top schools cannot find jobs, and experienced attorneys are having difficulty moving into new jobs, even with on-point experience.

I wholeheartedly agree with PPs that you should work as a paralegal before considering law school.  After you have done several major document reviews, witnessed the personalities involved, and viewed the work first hand, then you can decide whether you really want to be an attorney, or whether you are simply feeling stuck in your current job and practicing law sounds like a good solution.[/quote]

I'm the PP who suggested finding work as a paralegal in an employment law practice group. I was also a Big Law recruiter when times were good and candidates hard to come by, and yes, we would have thrown your resume in the trash. We used a "grade book" to determine which class rank was acceptable from which top tier schools. The only exceptions were 1. patent attorneys with Ph.D's, someone with highly specialized experience and or government experience and partners with large books of business.

There are a lot of practicing attorneys, giving you great advice and you are refusing to listen. Good luck with law school.[/quote]

All the paralegal jobs are being taken by the lawyers who went to lower-tier schools...[/quote][/quote]

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