yeah I get this common ‘belief’, most often broadcast by self-serving Deans of Law Schools ranked in the bottom half, but there is absolutely no evidence to indicate that this ‘belief’ is true. Law School teaches you to become a lawyer – nothing else.
And don’t forget the three years of opportunity costs to earn that JD: not only cost of attendance, but three years’ of no working, of building a resume.
Back to the OP:
- The market for legal jobs stinks, and will continue to stink for the foreseeable future.
- What the OP desires to do requires a top law school.
- The OP can't get there today with really bad numbers.
- To transfer from a crap law school to a top tier LS would likely require being at the top ~3 of the class of said crappy law school.
- Statistically, the odds are really long that anyone, including the OP, is gonna be top 3. (Only STEM undergrads have experienced how a curve works in course grading, and unless the OP was a STEM major she has little inkling of the arbitrariness of it.)
- Then, the question is, what can the OP do with a degree from a crappy LS (if she is unsuccessful in transferring)?
- And the answer is where this thread has traveled -- generally, nothing.