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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is beyond sad and pathetic that all of you care about the law school rankings at this stage of your careers. [/quote]

Law firms care about where you went to law school until the day you die or retire.  It matters for people's careers. It matters for who we hire as junior lawyers.  It's not mere vanity.  [/quote]
It's not mere vanity, but the justification is still unpleasant.

The reason firms will hire from Columbia but not NYLS has nothing to do with the quality of the curriculum. Big law attorneys pride themselves on learning nothing useful in law school. No one cares what you did in 1L torts (that's what Barbri is for). They care even less about your seminar on historical jurisprudence in sports law (unless the professor was famous). Where you go to school and how well you rank only matters because it signals how "smart" you are. Why do you think biglaw hires after students have completed only 1/3 of their education? They could give undergrads an IQ battery and spare them $180K, [b]but that would be a PR nightmare.[/b] Instead, they leave it to the LSAT and law schools.

Yes, it's problematic. Some of the best lawyers I know went to low ranked schools, and some of the worst went to T14s. And before anyone claims sour grapes--I went to a T6 and considered myself only competent at best.[/quote]

no - not pr nightmare, but i believe actually illegal by duke v. griggs power and other BS 'disparate impact' lawsuits.

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