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View Poll Results: Atlanta good place for lawyer?
Yes (good law schools good chance of getting employed) 2 40.00%
No (move somewhere else) 3 60.00%
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Old 12-13-2012, 04:51 PM
 
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Do they have good law schools good firms that pay good and do they have a lot of firms to get a employed. thankss
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Old 12-14-2012, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Edmond, OK
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Emory Law in Atlanta is very good. Although a large portion of their students are from out of state, a large number of them stay in ATL after graduation. I was told this by someone with personal knowledge of the law school.
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Old 12-15-2012, 06:12 AM
 
Location: Michissippi
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Do they have good law schools good firms that pay good and do they have a lot of firms to get a employed. thankss
If that post is indicative of your writing ability, then you have no business going to law school and will only saddle yourself with tremendous amounts of student loan debt. Heck, even excellent writers graduate from law school unemployed and never obtain work in the field.
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Old 12-15-2012, 06:14 AM
 
Location: Michissippi
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Emory Law in Atlanta is very good. Although a large portion of their students are from out of state, a large number of them stay in ATL after graduation. I was told this by someone with personal knowledge of the law school.
I suspect that the majority of Emory law school graduates end up unemployed or underemployed-and-involuntarily-out-of-field, which is what happened to most law school graduates over the past decade and even before that. Of course, they'll still have gigantic amounts of student loan debt that will haunt them for life along with the overqualified and unemployable stench of a "scarlet JD".
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Old 12-15-2012, 01:33 PM
 
Location: NC
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Have you even taken the LSAT yet?
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Old 12-17-2012, 10:34 AM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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The Atlanta legal market (like many smaller secondary legal markets) is pretty much dead at the moment.
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Old 12-17-2012, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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If that post is indicative of your writing ability, then you have no business going to law school and will only saddle yourself with tremendous amounts of student loan debt. Heck, even excellent writers graduate from law school unemployed and never obtain work in the field.
What matters most for success as an attoreny is marekting ability. Go try selling cars for three years. If you are good at it, go to law school.
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Old 12-17-2012, 05:02 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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What matters most for success as an attoreny is marekting ability. Go try selling cars for three years. If you are good at it, go to law school.
Depends on what you what to do and in what setting you want to do it. A lot of transactional practices in big firms are more insulated from client interaction.
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Old 12-18-2012, 07:16 AM
 
Location: Michissippi
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What matters most for success as an attoreny is marekting ability. Go try selling cars for three years. If you are good at it, go to law school.
I agree, except that if someone is good at selling cars they would probably be best served by continuing to sell cars or by selling something else rather than eating three years of opportunity and student loan costs to go to law school (when they might not even obtain any return on the investment). However, assuming that such a person did go to law school, surely the ability to produce acceptable work product must also be important. How is someone supposed to get to the position where they can put their used car sale skills to work if they can't make it past their first couple years in the field (when they won't be rainmaking and will need to produce work product)?
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