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[quote=Exlawdean]Having taught at a reasonable collection of law schools (Northwestern, Univ of Texas Austin, USC, NYU, Chicago, Stanford) I can attest to their being substantial differences between law schools. Most of these differences are not captured in any ranking. Instead, the schools differ in terms of how demanding they are, how tolerant they are of non-mainstream political views, the emphasis they put on getting public interest jobs rather than big law jobs, and in many other ways. I have seen the shows that most (all?) of these law schools put on for admitted students, and it would be, in my opinion, very difficult to figure out what is really going on in the school just by attending the admitted students events. Still, other things being equal, it would be good to to figure out the differences between the schools. Your child's satisfaction with their legal education will depend partly on some of the differences.

I would be interested to know if any of you have developed effective techniques (short of spending a year teaching in a law school) to understand and measure the differences between various law schools. If so, please share.[/quote]

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