Law School Advice from CBS Sports Columnist

Clay "I didn't even buy books my last year of law school" Travis, a columnist for CBS Sports, offer his advice on how to pick a law school, including the following suggestions:

Go sit in the law school library for a half-hour. Pretend to read a newspaper and check to see how often the students smile or laugh when interacting with each other. If no one ever smiles or laughs it's a horrible sign.

The better the school you attend the more it costs but the less hard you have to work while you're there. There are exceptions (for instance those lucky bastards who get in-state tuition at Virginia or the University of Michigan) but this is generally the case. The better the school the more lenient the grading curve. Consider this a good trade. And if you can go to Yale or Stanford where law school is graded pass/fail? My god, mortgage your soul. Go.

Hat tip to Law School Innovation. [JH]