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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the market is tough, but you don't have to be #1 at other schools not mentioned (say, MD law or George Mason Law or Richmond, just to list a few regional schools) to get a job making BigLaw market.  top 20% and a clerkship might do it.  Maybe not a Skadden or Cravath, but a McGuire Woods/Holland & Knight type BigLaw job.[/quote]

LOL. 2002 called, and it wants this post back.  top 20% at a toilet may have gotten you somewhere years ago, but not now.

when i started out in 2006 (and this is before things started to crumble), i worked at a toilet insurance defense firm for a few months before (thank god) transitioning to another practice area). there were TWO associates in the office who were recent georgetown grads. IIRC, one guy was top third and on a secondary journal....and working in shitlaw for $25 per billed hour (yes, not per hour worked, hour billed).  the doc review rooms are full of bottom of the class georgetown grads and median grads from no-name schools. top 20% even at a decent regional school isn't getting you jack shit but $45k doing workers comp or personal injury.  (i know you said top 20% and a clerkship, but top 20% from a TTT isn't getting you a clerkship that will do you any good.)
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