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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it really doesn’t matter where you went to undergrad.  Run up the gpa and score 167 or above.  In private practice, no one gives a damn where you went to undergrad—just law school.[/quote]

Within the law community this is correct. In the legal world, a Harvard undergraduate/LSU law school lawyer will have much less cachet than the converse (except, of course, in Louisiana).

As an aside, if one is dead certain on practicing in a particular geographic area, the local ties are much more important.  A Harvard law degree looks nice, but a U.Washington law degree (with good grades) will be more attractive in Seattle. In DCUM, we tend to gloss this over because many of the lawyers who work here are in Federal practice, and not state/local practice.

However, in terms of getting clients and business networking, the undergraduate connections are helpful to satisfy the BigLaw revenue requirements. Otherwise, the undergraduate school is not important (and I could say the same for doctors as well).  [/quote]

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