Even if you win you lose, because those top firm jobs tend to be brutal quality of life wise. There are legal jobs that have good work-life balance, involve in

Even if you win you lose, because those top firm jobs tend to be brutal quality of life wise. There are legal jobs that have good work-life balance, involve interesting work, pay decently (if not great), don't require you to hustle for clients, and are fairly well thought of by society at large: federal court judge and tenured law professor. For both it would behoove you to go to Yale or failing that Harvard. (Keep in mind when looking at these links, Yale's class size is about 1/3 Harvard's.) http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2004/04/where_federal_j.html http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2004/04/where_federal_... http://lsolum.blogspot.com/archives/2004_07_01_lsolum_archive.html#108912594144211701 http://lsolum.blogspot.com/archives/2004_07_01_lsolum_archiv...