<p>LazyKid: Your posts are ignorant at best.
You don’t have a clue.
For the love of god, please stop posting. </p>
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<li><p>There are plenty of decent jobs outside of the largest 250 firms. In the midwest, many regional firms pay upwards of $120,000 and are highly respectable. Particularly outside of the east coast, there are many great firms that are not in the top 250. Size does not always correlate with how great the firm is.
The same is true for just about every industry.
Ex: In finance, firms like PWP, Lazard and Catalyst are tiny compared to Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan, but very few people if any would turn down any of the above for Goldman Sachs. </p></li>
<li><p>Clerkships are generally considered more desirable than immediate employment at a top law firm. You cannot disregard these.</p></li>
<li><p>Plenty of people choose to work in government jobs. </p></li>
<li><p>Business jobs aren’t necessarily all bad either. There are people who go to law school with specific objective of working in the legal department or with the ultimate goal of working in something entirely different (i.e. m&a at a bank)</p></li>
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<p>This is not to say that as a general rule, working at a top law firm by and large isn’t preferred to a small regional firm.
To say, however, that only 10% get good jobs because only 10% start off in big law is idiotic.</p>