If I wanna practice law in California, should I go to a law school in California???
Asked by Lady_SI'm sending out my law school applications soon, and I got 23 of them! I know thats a lot, but I was worried about getting into a school, or I should say a good school. Yesterday, my professor, who is not an attorney told me that if I go to one of my out-of-state schools, like Brooklyn Law School, or South Texas School of Law, they will not have any recruiters from California there to conduct interviews...which makes sense. My plan is to work for the District Attorney, in Orange County, where I live. But my professor says that they will prefer alumni from CA law schools. Hopefully I will go to a law school in California. But if I go to an out-of-state school, and its not Harvard or Yale, do you think I will be able to make the connections and transition back to California and become and District Attorney here???
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Answered by Linkin
It's really not worth it to go out of state unless it's a top law school. I certainly wouldn't bother applying to Brooklyn Law or South Texas Law. The reason is you'd like to be a DA. Well, becoming a DA in a state like NY or Texas is just as competitive as being one in CA. Since your ultimate goal is to be a DA in CA, why make your life harder by going out of state. You're not going to get any help at school in passing the CA bar. Any reference to the bar will be towards passing that state's bar (they're not all the same). If you want to get a job at the DA's straight out of law school, you want to intern there first. There will NOT be any recruiters at those two schools. They'll get plenty of applicants at the CA schools. Is it possible to get an internship from out of state? Yes. However, it's hard enough to do it from a nationally recognized school that's below the top 20 (which it doesn't sound like is within your reach). Unless you know the head DA personally, realistically it'll be impossible coming from a 4th tier school out of state. Save your money and don't bother applying to those schools. There are enough 4th tier school in CA to apply to. 23 apps is pretty insane. I applied to like 4. 1 reach, 2 maybe's, and one safety. Went to one of my maybes. That's already like $200 in fees.
It's really not worth it to go out of state unless it's a top law school. I certainly wouldn't bother applying to Brooklyn Law or South Texas Law. The reason is you'd like to be a DA. Well, becoming a DA in a state like NY or Texas is just as competitive as being one in CA. Since your ultimate goal is to be a DA in CA, why make your life harder by going out of state. You're not going to get any help at school in passing the CA bar. Any reference to the bar will be towards passing that state's bar (they're not all the same). If you want to get a job at the DA's straight out of law school, you want to intern there first. There will NOT be any recruiters at those two schools. They'll get plenty of applicants at the CA schools. Is it possible to get an internship from out of state? Yes. However, it's hard enough to do it from a nationally recognized school that's below the top 20 (which it doesn't sound like is within your reach). Unless you know the head DA personally, realistically it'll be impossible coming from a 4th tier school out of state. Save your money and don't bother applying to those schools. There are enough 4th tier school in CA to apply to. 23 apps is pretty insane. I applied to like 4. 1 reach, 2 maybe's, and one safety. Went to one of my maybes. That's already like $200 in fees.
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