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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't you try to get a paralegal position in an employment law practice group. Your experience is relevant and you will get a taste of the more "legal" side of what you already do. [/quote]

OP here. Ideally, I would aim at getting a job at one of the national employment firms -- Jackson Lewis, Seyfarth Shaw, Littler Mendolsohn are some of the ones I am aware of. I think my work experience is relevant and should outweigh any issues with the rank of my school or how I do in law school. I just have to get an interview.  You have all given me something to think about, though. Even when I get hired at a big firm I may hate it and it doesn't look like I will get any money from a school to attend so I will owe a lot... #decisionsdecisions[/quote]

So you would go to a law school for a hypothetical interview? Because everything else *should* then somehow fall into place. You work in HR, how can you be so clueless?[/quote]

No, I would go to law school so I can eventually be a lawyer at one of these firms, not just for an interivew. Duh! Unless you know of a way I can be an attorney without 3 years of schooling? If so, tell me.

Also to the PP who said the firms won't hire me bc of school, you must have missed the part where I talked about my REAL WORLD experience. A firm is going to just throw my resume in the garbage because I didn't go to the right school, even though I have actual experience in the area they practice in?  I think some of you are just overly negative and maybe have failed yourselfs professionally, I don't know. I don't mean to be rude...[/quote]

Instead of being sensitive about people's honest comments on this thread, you should spend some time reading any of the numerous recent articles talking about the problems being encountered by new law school grads. If you can read all of these comments and just ignore everything being said, while telling yourself that everyone is just negative and wrong because of their own professional failures (wtf?) you really have your blinders on.[/quote]

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