I agree to talk to current students and recent grads of your regional school. How many of them are getting jobs and what kinds of jobs. See if you can find some bottom of the class types and talk to them, too. Then take the LSAT and see what happens.
I remember that even in the old days when the market for lawyers was better (back when law firms were competing with investment banks and offering lots of $—remember that?) there were grads who didn’t get jobs or didn’t get good jobs right away. Law students who were not at the top of their classes but were motivated to be lawyers took a more round about way to success. Some worked for smaller cities, some hung out their own shingles and took whatever came in. Some ran for office after a few years, for smaller judgeship jobs. Many had to move away from the saturated big city areas to places where the COL was lower.
I am counseling to think beyond Big Law as an option. Be prepared not to make lots of $ right away. That free ride at a regional school looks pretty good in the context of a weak market.