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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To get a job as  a lawyer, it is absolutely necessary these days to be accepted into the top-15 or top-25 school and graduate top-25% of your class.  It also helps to have some kind of a practical undergraduate degree, such as accounting, engineering, or biology. I would say start by getting a decent undergrad degree and see if you can get into a top-20 law school.  If you can't - don't bother, the investment will not pay off. [/quote]

So only 2.5% of law school candidates will have a chance of working at a lawyer (20/200 schools x .25)?  Or are there other lawyer jobs that are just invisible on DCUM the way that certain schools, and counties, and socio-economic don't exist?

I know that lawyer jobs are harder to come by than in the past, but I've very suspicious of your figures.[/quote]

Just google "law schools and jobs" and you will see lots of articles about the unemployment rate for law school graduates.

Here is one:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-jobs-crisis-at-our-best-law-schools-is-much-much-worse-than-you-think/274795/[/quote]

That article, which seems to have been written in 2009 or 2010 said that almost 70% of law school graduates got jobs that required them to pass the bar degree, and that in 2010 the market was already correcting itself as evidenced by reduced numbers of law school applicants, which will presumably has lead to reduced numbers of law school graduates.[/quote]

Ooops, sorry, it was the other article with the 2009 stats.  This one has similar numbers, with "underemployment" at a little less than 30%.  It also lists a number of schools well outside the top 20 with relatively low underemployment rates.

I'm not saying that law school is a good investment, or that there isn't a job crisis, but I get sick of DCUM's  hyperbole about anything negative that impacts affluent people (97.5% of all law school grads won't become practicing lawyers!  We're poor because every suburb of DC (except Silver Spring, Alexandria, all of PG county, almost anything outside the beltway . . . ) has an average income of 200K!  Nobody sends their children to X school! (except for, presumably, the families of the 600 students enrolled there)).[/quote]

My favorite is the "nobody in their right mind would send their kid to X preschool" comments when the preschool has a waiting list and every kid in the preschool has two parents with graduate degrees.[/quote]

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