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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my god - going to a T14 does NOT guarantee a big law job. At Georgetown that’s only true for the top third and when the economy is reasonably good. I was in the middle of the class in Gtown in the early 200s after the dot com crash. I had friends who were in top third who could not get biglaw offers. Forty percent of my class was unemployed at graduation. In contrast, the ones that graduated a few years before me, they got biglaw jobs as long as they were top two thirds. During the massive post 2008 r cession, even kids graduating from top five schools were having trouble, though usually those kids are fine. [/quote]

Again, the numbers are readily available.  350 of Georgetown's 2018 class are with firms of over 250.  Another 60 grads got judicial clerkships.  60 joined the government and 60 went into public interest law.  Georgetown is a little different than many tier 14 schools because it's right here in DC and a lot of folks there are not really interested in biglaw from the get go -- they want government/public interest.  It's also the lowest ranked of the top 14.

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/L18-ABA-Employment-Summary-with-Addendum-1.pdf[/quote]

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