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Originally Posted by trigirdbers
^ Lulz, I am saying quite the opposite. Its too easy to start a law school but very very difficult to acquire the faculty needed for a truely uselful one. Have you looked at the placement stats out of ASU Law, they are abysmal. I know several recent graduates who are funemployed and many more who are working for penuts. Basicaly, the good jobs go to the top 5% at ASU and the top 10% at U of A (I don't know anything about Phoenix College of Law but I immagine that things are even worse there). This was true even in a good economy. I wish U of A was more like Texas, Michigan, or Virginia and could provide a reasonable chance of employment upon graduation. This is why I am saying that I have to go to law school out of state in order to have a reasonable prospect of getting hired by a firm here.
I think that the only law school started recently that was even OK was UC Irvine's and thats just because they have buckets and buckets of money to pay good students to attend and faculty to teach there.
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Where are you getting this from? According to ASU's website:
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99% placement rate nine months after graduation
Average starting salary:
Public sector: $54,000
Private sector: $100,000
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http://www.law.asu.edu/?id=505
6 figure starting salary in Phoenix sounds pretty good to me... especially since it's relatively cheap and they offer incredible scholarships if you're half way qualified (no massive loans = no need to work 80 hours a week just to make loan payments). Forget law school, what career in Phoenix has a 6 figure average starting salary? Remember that stats at other schools will be inflated by the fact that average salaries are higher in general in most other big cities.