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Love SouthWestern Law School s Campus!

Beautiful Two Building Campus. All two buildings are wonderfully taken care of! Dean Prager is an amazing women!

I am quite saddened to see how how easily young people are swayed by Southwestern s marketing shtick.  Of course the campus is nice. A pretty campus, however, does not a good law school make.

Southwestern has a few good professors and can be a good choice some people, especially people who intend to work in small firms or solo. A typical student can probably go to Southwestern, study criminal law, do the right internships and have a reasonable chance of doing criminal work either small firm defense or prosecution (DA) if she really applies herself and, if she goes the DA route, is highly flexible about geography.

Entertainment law is a notoriously difficult nut to crack and is generally reserved either for elite law school graduates or graduates of LA law schools who grew up in LA and are particularly well connected in Hollywood. Perhaps their parents are movie directors or they used to work for some hotshot talent agent. The vast majority of Southwestern students who think they will become entertainment lawyers simply do not fall into this category.

In my experience at Southwestern as a 1L before transferring to another law school, I know the quality education the school offers is more than acceptable. However, the cost of tuition is far too high for the kinds of salaries that these graduates can reasonably expect to earn upon graduation or even a few years out.

A Southwestern education is therefore a luxury and not a particularly wise professional investment for most people. Do not mortgage your future. Get the real scoop from lawyers. Tell them what your goals are and ask them what they really think about Southwestern. Recognize when they are merely being polite.

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