Law School after this…what are the chances?

[freeloader]

if you can't get into a t14 law school then don't bother              
you'll most likely end up being an ambulance chaser or making late night tv commercials "have you been injured by asbestos?"

I would never tell someone don't bother to attend a particular college on the sole basis that it's not ranked high.  That's wrong on so many levels. 

The label "your school isn't good enough" has been going on for a long time. For example, I could argue that Harvard sucks because its robotics program is far inferior to MIT.

One other note about geography: the majority of top law schools and BigLaw firms are concentrated in the NorthEast/Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes region, and California. Higher ranked law schools have disproportionate influence in these areas. If you are outside these areas, the top law schools will have much less influence.

You made some good points.

If your goal is to work as a lawyer in your hometown in Piemont North Dakota, it probably won't matter if you graduated from a top law firm on the east coast.

I see these threads all the time, "these students earn more from this college" and none factor in location as a primary reason why they earn more. 

I could startup a college in San Fransico and literary have all drugged out homeless people as teachers.  Those teachers could do nothing but shoot up heroin and fentanyl all day in front of their students leaving students with no choice but to learn on their own 100% of the time.  And you know what?  Those graduates would earn probably double than those that graduated from some small town in the midwest on the sole basis that jobs pay a lot in the San Fransisco area.

And as far as earning more, if you want to earn the most money, you have to go into business for yourself.

That’s true. You could also start a college in West Virginia, New Hampshire, or Kentucky, but your teachers would probably all die of drug overdoses since those states lead the nation in drug overdose deaths.  Good thing about starting in California is that they are well below average in drug deaths, drug addicts per capita, and well above average in services for addicts, including rehab. Good thing you are going to make such a sensible choice, by starting your college in California!