on the other hand. if you have zero debt and zero obligations after getting your degree. and you
w ant to be a lawyerand you’re willing to go anywhere. you’ll probably be able to make a living.

i mean, a guy graduates froma top ten school with 225,000 in total debt. he gets a job at a big firm say for two years. he hates it. he services his debt for two years, maybe pays it downa little. he’s still a couple hundred grand in the hole, and say he quits in year three, puzzled about what to do next.

is he, a graduate of a “good ” school, really ina better position than a guy who goes to a non aba school,graduates with no debt because he earned enough to pay his tuition as he goes, struggles to open up a small family/criminal/bankruptcy law pracice, but is making 75,000 a year in year 4, with no debt payments?

even in a screwed up legal market, is it completely plausible for a hustler to make 75-100k even if he’s a mediocre lawyer in 5 years or so?

yes, it’s plausible. way more liely in fact, than that the big firm guy from the big school will be at the same job 5 years out…

Id’d say the second guy i smore likely to hang in there and make it long termsyustainably than the first guy. hell, he’s way more liekly to beway ahead with some decent sized personal injury case in years 5-15.

ive got a buddy who had a one man shop who hit it very very big on one case. whcih never wouldve happened if he’d stuck around as an hourly toiling corporate type lawyer. by big I mean never work again big.

hell, if a law degree is worthless in general, wouldnt a b.a. also be worthless?