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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I misunderstood what you were asking. I thought you were asking if it would likely be okay to hire someone like that. I didn't know about the bar failing part. And a 4th tier at a big law firm, really?
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The bar passage rate is pretty low for crap schools, of which California has more than its share, and so when I see a resume from someone with a degree from a fourth-tier school, I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that they got a degree but couldn't pass the bar. But if they did pass the bar and are looking for a paralegal job, that's not good either, if only because I assume they went to law school to be a lawyer, and won't want to stick around as a paralegal once they figure out how to make that work.
Or maybe people just have unrealistic career plans. I talked to guy last week, the friend of a friend, who is in his last year at a not-good law school and who was wanting to work as a paralegal and use that to transition to doing legal work. I said to him, if you walk in the door as a paralegal, most places are going to see you as a paralegal and will not see you as a lawyer.
