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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok but you can be much lower in the class at a T14 and get a high paying biglaw job. And before anyone says there are jobs outside of biglaw, that is true. But they don’t tend to pay as well and a lot of students need to at least start at biglaw to pay off loans.

At my T10 law school, nearly the entire class got great jobs right out of school. Most in biglaw, then some in clerkships, and a few in government (by choice). Most of us had multiple biglaw offers. [/quote]

As one of my former law professors would respond:  "that's an excellent answer to a question that no one asked."

We all know that Biglaw goes deeper into the class in the T14 for hiring than most non-T14.  That doesn't mean there aren't plenty of Biglaw jobs available to solid non-T14 grads.  Take Notre Dame, for example.  The 2024 graduating class had 180 students.  Seventy-four went directly to Biglaw jobs, and another 31 got federal court clerkships.  That's 105 out of 180.

Several other non T14s, including USC, Fordham, BC, BU and yes Howard do just as well or better.

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I'll say this as gently as possible. Did you not learn how to issue spot? Analyze? We're giving advice about where to attend law school, PP. You're much better off job prospect wise going to a highly ranked law school. You will have a lot more opportunities if you are not at the top of the class. And since no one knows ahead of time how well they are going to do in law school, it's a much better bet not to bank on being top of class in a lower ranked school.

In short, you can do well coming from a lower ranked school but you have to be at the top of the class. [/quote]

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