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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been practicing at a top Wall Street law firm for many years now in house and 20 years of experience. I wish it wasn’t this way but I always consider law school when hiring and also when I meet a new lawyer.  I think most lawyers at elite firms or highly selective in house legal teams consider a lawyer’s law school as a data point.  It obviously isn’t everything and the more experience and expertise you have under your belt the less it matters, but all things being relatively equal, most lawyers in my position will feel like a lawyer from a top school (T10) is a safer bet than someone from a less well regarded school.[/quote]

But why? Law School has nothing to do with practice. [/quote]

Because you don’t actually learn anything in law school, so the toughest part of it is getting in. If you can demonstrate that you have what it takes to get in, you probably have what it takes to be good at practicing. Unless you go to a t5, where you are probably better at being a law prof than a practitioner.[/quote]

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