re: Does Southern have a good law school?

This is a complicated question. Is it better than LSU or Tulane? Hell no. When you weigh the costs to attend Loyola - about 5x Southern's tuition - and compare their bar passage rates, the waters get muddied. Unless you plan to practice in New Orleans or have family money, I would attend Southern over Loyola.

Also, Southern has a night program that takes 4 years to complete and costs about $4k/semester. That's the route I took because I worked 40-50 hours a week during school. All of the classmates I kept up with were gainfully employed at graduation (many were paralegals while attending).

I graduated Southern's night program damn near the bottom of my class and got a great job right out of school. That was 2011, considered one of the worst years for new lawyers.

LOL my friends at LSU talk to Southern Law students like they're slow

Not that I advocate acting like a douche when talking to someone else but LSU law is much better than that ranking. Actually take a look at their job statistics, if you want to practice in Louisiana LSU is the school you want to attend. Also LSU law is ranked in the top 10 every year for best value and underrated law schools in the country.

I cringed when I read his post.

Agree 100%. The place is frustrating as hell. On the first day of each semester I had to go to at least 3 different buildings to pay my fee bill, 4 if I wanted a parking pass.

The law professors, by and large, are great. Most are practicing attorneys with entertaining stories of real clients. My friends at LSU took crim law from a guy who had never practiced a day in his life, my crim law professor was a former advisor to the president of Nigeria and once witnessed a client get stoned to death. I took that class 7 years ago and could easily pass the criminal portion of the bar exam today.