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[quote=Anonymous]Recent law grad here. I went FT to a top-10 law school and graduated just above the middle of the class. Did not have a job when I graduated, but eventually landed on my feet and have a job that I really love.

I was one of the lucky ones. An alarming number of my classmates have been unable to get decent jobs (often the pay is just laughable in relation to the debt), dozens are not practicing law at all, and most of the ones who are employed do very little besides work. Some of the people in the last category do like their jobs, but few of them are healthy or balanced. The truth is that you have very little control over where you end up on this spectrum - some of the people who struck out in the job market had much better grades than I did, were on law review, etc.

And this my experience coming out of an "elite" school. People coming from lesser schools fare even worse on average, and if you are outside of the top 50 or so schools and do not finish at the very top of your class - forget finding a decent job.

Part-time programs do not measure up very well in this calculus. In fact, I've yet to meet another practicing lawyer who went to law school part-time.

Short version: don't do it. Even if it is free. You are wasting your time. If you can get into a top school with a scholarship, then maybe consider going.

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