Chicago Grad To Start Law School Nxt Yr Looking For Law Firm Position

Q: I graduated with my BA in Political Science in May 1995, and plan on law school for the coming year. I am looking for a position within someone's law firm or private practice.

A:What the hell makes you think that you are so good, that law firms will come to you. There are plenty of people who are more qualified than that that can not even get the jobs if they went to the firms. Firms are not scanning everywhere for help because THEY DON'T NEED TO!!!! Also, if you plan on putting in this much effort in law school, then your peers will love you because their grades are based on the other students. In other words, your laziness will cause other grades to go up. I wish that you were in my 1L class. Very highly rated in Intellectual Property law, but absolutely nothing else. It is the bottom of the barrel of Chicago Law Schools. But having said that, please understand that it is still a very good school producing some of Cook County's finest judges (OK, so there is some patronage involved. Still most are pretty good lawyers). USN&WR rates them #6 in the nation for IP and a fifth teir school altogether. For better schools check U of C, NW and CHicago Kent, the only three order of the coif in chicago.