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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard is a fine law school.  Don't feel bad you didn't go to Yale.

Signed, 
YLS grad[/quote]

Big law partner here (who didn't go to either law school but was a Yale undergrad.)  We don't recruit from Yale anymore because we have had so many summers from there flame out. We have had pretty good luck with our summers from Harvard, with a few mistakes along the way. [/quote]

Yeah, we're really hurting as a result of that. Guess I'll just go take an appellate clerkship instead, pardon me while I cry into my DOJ Honors Program lanyard.

--YLS[/quote]

Glad you did well. Many from YLS do, but not often at law firms. YLS and HLS take different students and then train them differently. I have friends who went to YLS and are doing great in law academia. But, HLS is much better at producing practicing lawyers who can thrive in law as a business. I am not sure why YLS has trouble producing students who excel at the business side of law, but it definitely does. I was simply pointing out to the first YLS poster that the snippy comparison was unwarranted. If you want to be a law professor, go to Yale. If you want to be a big law managing partner, go to Harvard. Both are nice dreams, but the best path to each goes through a different school.  [/quote]

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