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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]A firm is going to just throw my resume in the garbage because I didn't go to the right school, even though I have actual experience in the area they practice in?[/quote]

[b]YES.[/b]  Your HR experience is not going to be the same sort of asset as, say, an advanced science degree would be for an aspiring patent attorney or Wall Street experience for an aspiring securities attorney.  Please listen to the folks on here -- it is extremely difficult for a graduate of a lower-tier law school to get any job, much less one at a firm.  In this market, even graduates of top schools cannot find jobs, and experienced attorneys are having difficulty moving into new jobs, even with on-point experience.[/quote]

Yeah, your experience in HR isn't going to count for crap if you don't graduate from a top law school.  Prior non-legal experience is only relevant for a limited set of legal fields--a science background is going to be incredibly helpful if you want to be a patent lawyer.  Experience in HR means diddly.  If you can't get into a top-tier school, don't bother going.  The job market is terrible and I don't see it turning around in the next three years.  We are seeing a major structural correction to the field--there were too many law schools graduating too many students who couldn't pass the bar or couldn't get jobs.  Not a good time to be getting into the field.  [/quote]

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