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[quote=Anonymous]Retired Biglaw partner here.  If your kid can get into a T14 he'd be fine taking on debt.  Virtually anyone who graduates from T14 can get a Biglaw job.  Maybe not at Covington or something but it doesn't matter -- they all pay the same and they all pay well.

Outside of T14 I wouldn't risk it.  You just can't predict how well you're going to do in law school no matter what your LSAT tells you.  And once you're out of the T14, and especially once you're out of the top 20-25, you really do need top grades for the big jobs.

Your son needs to remember, though, that Biglaw sucks.  Your colleagues suck, they're boring and self-centered AF, your clients are generally evil and also suck, and your opposing counsel also suck.  Basically all you're really doing is helping big companies push around huge sums of money.  You rarely go to trial, too risky for shareholders, so you spends years doing all kinds of tedious and meaningless pretrial stuff and then settle.  And the hours are terrible and you have no life.

There's a reason they pay so much.

I've never met a lawyer who started in Biglaw and moved on to something else and regretted it.  Seriously, not one time.  That tells me a whole lot.[/quote]

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