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Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:48 pm
by Lord Randolph McDuff
Encountered an idea on TLS and wanted to see if it was isolated or wide spread. Do you think firms prefer private law schools to public ones? I'm interested in why or why not, and if you yourself go to a private or public school.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:53 pm
by bdubs
Look at the T14 it's indicative of the recruiting power of those schools and they are certainly not all private.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:54 pm
by quakeroats
Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:Encountered an idea on TLS and wanted to see if it was isolated or wide spread. Do you think firms prefer private law schools to public ones? I'm interested in why or why not, and if you yourself go to a private or public school.
It depends on where you go. UVA, for example, places very well for a public school.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:58 pm
by NYC Law
For the top 50 or so Private > Public

Once you dip below that Public > Private

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:00 pm
by yngblkgifted
quakeroats wrote:
Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:Encountered an idea on TLS and wanted to see if it was isolated or wide spread. Do you think firms prefer private law schools to public ones? I'm interested in why or why not, and if you yourself go to a private or public school.
It depends on where you go. UVA, for example, places very well for a public school.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:06 pm
by Grizz
quakeroats wrote:
Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:Encountered an idea on TLS and wanted to see if it was isolated or wide spread. Do you think firms prefer private law schools to public ones? I'm interested in why or why not, and if you yourself go to a private or public school.
It depends on where you go. UVA, for example, places very well for a public school.
Not as well as Duke though, amirite?!?!??

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:12 pm
by thesealocust
quakeroats wrote:
Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:Encountered an idea on TLS and wanted to see if it was isolated or wide spread. Do you think firms prefer private law schools to public ones? I'm interested in why or why not, and if you yourself go to a private or public school.
It depends on where you go. UVA, for example, places very well for a public school.
Sometimes I love you <3

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:58 pm
by quakeroats
thesealocust wrote:
quakeroats wrote:
Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:Encountered an idea on TLS and wanted to see if it was isolated or wide spread. Do you think firms prefer private law schools to public ones? I'm interested in why or why not, and if you yourself go to a private or public school.
It depends on where you go. UVA, for example, places very well for a public school.
Sometimes I love you <3
New avatar or it didn't happen.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:06 pm
by thesealocust
quakeroats wrote:
thesealocust wrote:
quakeroats wrote:
Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:Encountered an idea on TLS and wanted to see if it was isolated or wide spread. Do you think firms prefer private law schools to public ones? I'm interested in why or why not, and if you yourself go to a private or public school.
It depends on where you go. UVA, for example, places very well for a public school.
Sometimes I love you <3
New avatar or it didn't happen.
It happened.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:19 pm
by quakeroats
thesealocust wrote:
quakeroats wrote:
thesealocust wrote:
quakeroats wrote:Encountered an idea on TLS and wanted to see if it was isolated or wide spread. Do you think firms prefer private law schools to public ones? I'm interested in why or why not, and if you yourself go to a private or public school.
It depends on where you go. UVA, for example, places very well for a public school.
Sometimes I love you <3

New avatar or it didn't happen.
It happened.
lol.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:39 pm
by lawgod
I would think if you are serious about being a lawyer, you would pay the money for a good school and not go to some community law school or state school.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:42 pm
by Oban
Community law school?

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:49 pm
by kwais
lawgod wrote:I would think if you are serious about being a lawyer, you would pay the money for a good school and not go to some community law school or state school.
Right? What kind of unambitious, self-loather goes to Michigan or Berkeley. geez

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:02 pm
by rayiner
NYC Law wrote:For the top 50 or so Private > Public

Once you dip below that Public > Private
For undergrad? No. The top state undergrads (Virginia, Berkeley, Michigan) are as good or better than anything outside the Ivy/near-Ivy level. For law school? Definitely not.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:04 pm
by lawgod
Law firms are part of the private sector. They will always prefer people who appreciate and support the private sector over people who just mooch off the public.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:07 pm
by thesealocust
lawgod wrote:Law firms are part of the private sector. They will always prefer people who appreciate and support the private sector over people who just mooch off the public.
Keep posting, it's helping.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:12 pm
by 071816
lawgod wrote:Law firms are part of the private sector. They will always prefer people who appreciate and support the private sector over people who just mooch off the public.
Cooley > University of Michigan?

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:13 pm
by lawgod
chimp wrote:
lawgod wrote:Law firms are part of the private sector. They will always prefer people who appreciate and support the private sector over people who just mooch off the public.
Cooley > University of Michigan?
I think you will find that there are more lawyers practicing in Michigan from Cooley than from UMichigan.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:18 pm
by justhockey31
This all has to be a joke right? I mean you go down the list of top public schools and they do just as well as their private peers

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:20 pm
by lawgod
justhockey31 wrote:This all has to be a joke right? I mean you go down the list of top public schools and they do just as well as their private peers
Well, they do have decent employment numbers, but that's because most of them take jobs in PI and government.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:21 pm
by justhockey31
Look up firms, you will see them well represented with public school kids

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:21 pm
by kwais
lawgod wrote:
chimp wrote:
lawgod wrote:Law firms are part of the private sector. They will always prefer people who appreciate and support the private sector over people who just mooch off the public.
Cooley > University of Michigan?
I think you will find that there are more lawyers practicing in Michigan from Cooley than from UMichigan.
a) because the Michigan grads are in DC, NY, SF and Chi and Cooley is a degree mill
b) because Cooley is private and therefore better

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:22 pm
by Bildungsroman
Everyone just ignore lawgod, he;s shown himself to be a troll on numerous occasions.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:23 pm
by lawgod
kwais wrote:
lawgod wrote:
chimp wrote:
lawgod wrote:Law firms are part of the private sector. They will always prefer people who appreciate and support the private sector over people who just mooch off the public.
Cooley > University of Michigan?
I think you will find that there are more lawyers practicing in Michigan from Cooley than from UMichigan.
a) because the Michigan grads are in DC, NY, SF and Chi and Cooley is a degree mill
b) because Cooley is private and therefore better
Whatever. Bottom line is your average Cooley student has a better chance of ending up practicing in Michigan than a UMich student. So it follows that if you want to practice in Michigan, you should go to Cooley.

Re: Firms prefer private law schools?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:25 pm
by lawgod
Bildungsroman wrote:Everyone just ignore lawgod, he;s shown himself to be a troll on numerous occasions.
Hey! Behave yourself. This is not trolling.
If I had started this thread I would be a troll. All I'm doing is playing off someone else absurd posts.
You will find that all my "trolls" are that.