<p>Thoughts…?</p>
<p>HUGE difference: one is a nationally-ranked college and the other is a good regional school.</p>
<p>If you get into both, choose Boalt (re-branding itself lately as Berkeley Law). The legal profession is exceptionally hierarchical.</p>
<p>That said, I’m one Boalt grad who has known many outstanding lawyers who graduated from Hastings. If you want to practice law in the Bay Area in particular, Hastings is an excellent choice.</p>
<p>Rightly or wrongly, Hastings for years had the reputation as the place where emeriti law faculty from Harvard and Yale went to retire. While that brought them some big names, it also suggested a certain lack of dynamism.</p>