Close to 20 years ago, I was a summer associate at a big firm in Chicago. This firm, unlike some competitors, hired both from Harvard Law and its peers and from the superstars at local 3rd and 4th tier law schools. A guy from John Marshall Law School told me: “At my school, your school is not like a place where actual humans go. It’s like a Platonic ideal.”
Um…thank you? I don’t mind that he said that, but to this day I’m not sure what the most gracious response would be.
(It’s a big week for John Marshall: https://today.uic.edu/uic-john-marshall-law-school-join-forces-to-create-chicagos-only-public-law-school)