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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even a Georgetown Law the bottom half of the class often struggles to find good jobs. I know many recent graduates who were out of work for 6 months or even more after passing the bar. Some of them do an LLM program or temp legal work. Why anyone would want to waste 3 years and 150k to do document review is just beyond me. I'd rather be a Barista at Starbucks.[/quote]

Well, some JDs with debt do work as Baristas at Starbucks...[/quote]

The cream rises to the top and quality sells.  If someone is an editor on law review, they should have no trouble getting a good law job.[/quote]

How very elitist of you, sir or ma'am.  Of course the top students do well. But don't you think that if a law school admits a student they owe them some realistic shot a good employment, even if they aren't on law review or Order of the Coif?[/quote]

As long as the students are realistic about their expectations, yes.  Not everyone can go to big law, but unless they have a burning desire to be a prosecutor, public defender, or some other public interest work, all 1Ls  expect to be the special snowflake that succeeds academically, interviews well, and performs well on the job that makes them $160K a year, even with all of the ABA required disclosures about employment statistics on the school website.  The students also don't really understand how law school's grade and how painful a curve can be (even if it's an inflated one.)

--former lawyer who detoured to career services.
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