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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He needs to research environmental law jobs and understand what that actually entails. [/quote]

He has started that a bit. [/quote]
Getting a government spot doing environmental law means you need to go to a top school and do well.  Those jobs are filled with Harvard and Yale grads.  You'll have an okay salary, but will be counting on the government forgiving your loans.

The other option is going into BigLaw and to defend companies in their quest to destroy the environment.  You will be able to pay off your loans, but it isn't a job for a value-driven environmentalist.

If you can't get a prestigious federal job or get into Biglaw, if you are lucky, then you will make a subsistence wage filing petitions for local companies and individuals.  More likely you won't get a legal job at all.[/quote]

EPA is starving for attorneys, there’s been a lot of recent turnover.  You need to show commitment to the mission.  Most Fed attorney jobs don’t hire right out of law school though, but you definitely don’t need to go to a T14 school to get there.  If he’s committed to environmental law, he should also check out Vermont Law School and Pace.  uMD hs a good environmental program too. [/quote]Ugh.  Do not go to Pace under any circumstance.  Terrible advice.  Do not go to Vermont or UMD unless you can basically go for free and have strong ties to the state.[/quote]

I wouldn’t recommend UMD.  It gets massively screwed by its location and rank.  It doesn’t have enough close ties to DC to be like a public (re: cheaper) GW that places somewhat well in the region.  It competed with UB in the Baltimore market.  In Baltimore, there isn’t enough big law to take a sizable chunk of the class.  And UB does very well in Baltimore for a low ranked school. Last I checked, UB and UMD had the same employment states with the only difference being UMD placed about 5% more in big law.  It seemed to me that if you didn’t have the grades for big law, the Baltimore market treated UB and UMD kids the same.  So you even though UMD was ranked hire, a lot of attorneys in the Baltimore market would hire top 1/3 at UB over median at UMD.[/quote]

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