Perspective Boston Law

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by credit this
Would it be too rude to ask WTF is the Princeton Review?

I am personally offended that you don't know.

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
http://www.princetonreview.com

Did you have a good time at BC?

Sorry, I guess I have heard of them, although the idea that a test prep company would be in a good position to rate law school faculties is a bit mystefying.

No I didn't go to BC. And if it helps soften the blow, I didn't intend the comment about people not knowing their faculty as some sort of "my school's got a better faculty than yours" sort of thing -- my point was that the question just doesn't matter. When I (or anyone else I know) is interviewing someone for a law firm job the reputation of the candidate's law school faculty is utterly inconsequential. The school makes a difference because I figure it has an impact on how much the candidate has been challenged; the candidate's grades make a difference; it might mean something to me if I actually happen to know one of the person's professors. But I simply don't know and don't care about some amorphous "faculty reputation," and I think you would have to search for a long time to find someone involved in hiring who does.

That doesn't mean the ratings are meaningless. If accurate, they might reflect something about what the quality of your LS experience would be like, or about how hard you will have to work to learn, etc., etc. But the original question was which school was more likely to get you a job.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by credit this
Sorry, I guess I have heard of them, although the idea that a test prep company would be in a good position to rate law school faculties is a bit mystefying.

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The ratings are based on student surveys, not faculty surveys as in other rankings. As a test prep company (with a book publishing arm), they have name recognition with, and access to, lots of students. Of course, student surveys have even less bearing on the question of law firm hiring because law students don't know jack about it -- they just think they do.

[nubova]

Thank you all for posting. I hadn't realised that there were so many responses because I have been traveling without internet access to look at schools in other markets. I believe I am leaning toward BC here in Boston. I am going to DC next to visit George Washington. Many have told me to attend the school in the market that I wish to practice, so in all likelyhood, I will be attending BC in the fall, but I will not make my final decision until mid-April.

Also, sorry about the thread title; I believe I meant to place "student" in there somewhere but I apparently forgot.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by nubova
Thank you all for posting. I hadn't realised that there were so many responses because I have been traveling without internet access to look at schools in other markets. I believe I am leaning toward BC here in Boston. I am going to DC next to visit George Washington. Many have told me to attend the school in the market that I wish to practice, so in all likelyhood, I will be attending BC in the fall, but I will not make my final decision until mid-April.

Also, sorry about the thread title; I believe I meant to place "student" in there somewhere but I apparently forgot.

You should also consider the available women at each institution.

BC has its lapsed Catholics, but, then, there are also the unlapsed ones. DC has a good ratio. Who can tell us about sex at BU?

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
You should also consider the available women at each institution.

BC has its lapsed Catholics, but, then, there are also the unlapsed ones. DC has a good ratio. Who can tell us about sex at BU?

Can you find an issue of Boink?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
You should also consider the available women at each institution.

BC has its lapsed Catholics, but, then, there are also the unlapsed ones. DC has a good ratio. Who can tell us about sex at BU?

I had some. Some of it was good. Some of it was not.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

The "other" board deleted a post about some kind of dispute between former Testa MP Hayes and Bill Schnoor, one of the people who pulled the string that unravelled the sweater.

Anyone catch the substance of the thing while it was up? I missed it.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The "other" board deleted a post about some kind of dispute between former Testa MP Hayes and Bill Schnoor, one of the people who pulled the string that unravelled the sweater.

Anyone catch the substance of the thing while it was up? I missed it.

Who is "sock for the man" now anyway? Anyone we know?

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The "other" board deleted a post about some kind of dispute between former Testa MP Hayes and Bill Schnoor, one of the people who pulled the string that unravelled the sweater.

Anyone catch the substance of the thing while it was up? I missed it.

Yeah, though I have to sorta agree with a policy of at least deleting names of the parties (particularly the sender).

It was one guy who had done work for Skyworks back in the day to the tune of 1M per year (he claimed). He is now at some firm with initials like LLBF??? Anyway, he was writing to the other guy who is at Goodwin Proctor. Lotso misspellings etc. Anyway, he was saying "hey, I heard you guys already lost Skyworks... didn't take you long to screw that relationship up at your new firm".

Then he was chastising the guy at Goodwin Proctor for publicly accusing him of not having much work to do (the horror, the horror).

Anyway, it seemed like the kind of thing I would email to one of my friends here at work as a joke. E.g., oh, by the way Sean, you are the suckiest sucky mothersucker of all time, and I hear you don't have enough work to do at your sucky new firm!

Except that a bit of it did seem like there was some hurt feelings involved. E.g., that wasn't nice of you to issue the press release saying nobody trusts me enough to do their work!

So it was sorta funny (certainly personal and not something done on a professional level), but sorta sad to read between the lines and see how much pain these poor partners are feeling as the clients from their dissolved firm find a new batch of pickpockets to bill em 1M per year.