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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you also need to consider what path your DC wants to take post law school. If it’s big law then undergrad may matter. Big law is heavily reliant on academic credentials. Every lawyer bio lists their undergrad school in addition to law school.

That said, I don’t think Bates v Wooster is very different in that regard. Many will have only a glancing knowledge of both. [/quote]
As those of us who have worked in BigLaw repeatedly point out in this thread, undergrad does not matter in BigLaw. Law school matters. (I ran a summer associate program, hiring almost exclusively from T14. We had people who attended undergrad everywhere from Berkeley to Iowa to DePaul.)

Zero difference between Bates and Wooster.[/quote]

100 percent agree.  This really isn't even up to legitimate debate.  Whoever these people are who are piping up and saying that law firms -- and the legal profession in general -- care about undergraduate schools are just flat out wrong.  They can't be lawyers, and they definitely cannot be Biglaw lawyers.

Lawyers are obsessed with law school attended.  Not undergrad.  Full stop.  [/quote]

Me again.  Just to get the Yale Law thing out of the way:  yes, they seem to care about undergrad more than most (if not all) of the top law schools.  So what.  That doesn't mean law firms do or the legal profession does or anybody else does.  In fact, Yale sends fewer of its graduates on to private law practice than other top law schools.  It's a pipeline to academia, to the point where many top law firms are actually skeptical about hiring Yale Law graduates -- [b]not because they don't think they're smart AF and really capable, but because they don't expect that most of them will stick around for very long.[/b]  For this reason alone, while Yale is generally regarded as the nation's top law school, it definitely does not give you an edge over other top 10 schools when it comes to getting hired by a private law firm.  [/quote]

When it comes to getting hired by a private law firm, you say YLS grads don't fare well because "they don't expect that most of them will stick around for very long." I don't know if you know that you are undermining your own argument.  [/quote]

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