<p>As a practicing lawyer, I agree completely with ariesathena and HImom. Law school and practicing law take a lot of dedication and hard work. That said, in the hypercompetitive business world today, so do most careers. Brooklyn Law and FSU are good regional law schools, but you will have a more difficult journey making a degree from those schools work for you outside of the geographic region where these schools are located. It’s not impossible, just tougher. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that a school that is not a top 20 school will be easy, because it won’t. Law school is tough, law professors are demanding, the socratic method is a killer if you are unprepared and the volumes of reading and writing that you are expected to do are enormous at every law school.</p>