Top Law Schools

I've read some older topics in the archives, and plenty of them still have the same "T14 or bust, better be median and hopefully above" mentality.

In fact, I think the first definition of law school on Urban Dictionary represents today's (and apparently, yesterday's) zeitgeist best.

Law School

1) A place where stoners and alcoholics can get a graduate degree.

2) An institution where starry eyed idealists have their dreams of upholding justice and benefiting humanity heartlessly destroyed while incurring more debt than a third world country. These poor souls, after three years of brutal Socratic torture and exposure to the cruel reality of the broken justice system and the non-existent job market, come out of law school stoners or alcoholics.
Everyone ends up graduating from law school a stoner or an alcoholic.

by Dirty Rotten Scoundrel January 19, 2007

If he considered 2007 bad, I couldn't imagine what he would think of now.

For starters, brutal Socratic torture isn't a thing anymore, if it ever was.

This almost makes me want to defend law school

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Bro could also be talking about the non-existent law market for unicorn jobs like constitutional civil rights lawyer or international war crime prosecutor.

pleadthafif wrote:Alcoholics makes sense, but are there really that many stoners in law school? I call bullshit.

I know of a lot of stoners at my school, actually

Biglaw hires as many people today as they have at any time other than the classes of 2007/2008. I don't think people really noticed the 07-08 uptick until it had already passed. And even in at the absolute peak in 2008, when firms of 100+ hired more than 8,400 people, that still represented less than 20% of grads.