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Originally Posted by patteeu
If you just want to come back to Kansas City and set up shop as a solo practitioner or become a prosecutor somewhere, then Duke would be a vanity choice and UMKC would be just as good (in fact, probably better due to the more practical focus on Missouri law). But if you have aspirations to work at a top tier law firm on Wall Street or in DC or some other major city, it helps a lot (i.e. it's almost essential) to go to a big name law school.
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That's actually a really good point. I think those positions can be attained, but would the time involved to get them be worth the loss of income by getting them straight out of school. This is over a quarter million dollar education. Some of those guys make 10 times that in bonus alone.