Law school grad here. I agree with the other replies to @exelius. For law, prior work experience does not help, and can even hurt. Those $160k jobs go, for t

Law school grad here. I agree with the other replies to @exelius. For law, prior work experience does not help, and can even hurt. Those $160k jobs go, for the most part, to students from the top law schools, or top students from the second tier schools. For example, I went to a second-tier law school, and when those $160k firms came to campus for job interviews, they were only interested in interviewing those in the top 5% of the class.