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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]T14 might be worth it[/quote]
If you think the economy is going to crash, then the upper half of the T14 is safer than the lower half.  Not safe, but safer if we have a recession.[/quote]

This is nonsense.  First its to 25ish not top 14.  Top 25 plus the major schools where the firm has offices.  So for example - -Boston is not all Harvard -- also Boston College.

But stick with the T14 -- anywhere in there is fine.  Even in bad economic times.[/quote]

NP. I was at Georgetown in the early 2000s, after the dot com crash. Forty percent of my class was unemployed at graduation. All the career service office knew how to do was shove people into top 100 vault firms. Those job offers tanked. Top fifteen percent were ok. But I knew people who were in top third, on journal, etc, who had trouble getting jobs.

It didn't help that Georgetown over accepted for my class year, and then let something like seventy transfers in, when they knew the economy sucked. WHy? Because they wanted the tuition revenue to pay for the new building. [/quote]
In 2010 and 2011 [b]Georgetown Law wasn't even sharing the stats to my knowledge[/b].  They were not good.  Tons of pulled offers or no offers.  Because of the chaos, who got offers and who didn't was super spotty.  Those in the top 10-15% were mostly fine, but lower than that and you started running across people who'd struck out.  It got worse as you moved down the class.  Many never did get legal jobs.[/quote]

Actually, they still had to submit those to the ABA.  2011  was the year they started breaking out between long-term and short-term, part-time and full-time, etc.  I didn't find a link directly to their stats from 2011, but found this article:  https://www.thefacultylounge.org/2012/07/abas-class-of-2011-employment-outcomes-data-show-how-rough-it-is-out-there.html.

Every law school is required to publish their ABA employment data summaries on their website in their "disclosures" section.  If you don't review and dissect them, you are doing yourself a disservice.  Kudos to schools who also list their "NALP Summaries" because those have salaries in them as well.[/quote]

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