re: Life as a Lawyer Advice Needed

Unless it is a top tier law school, things are somewhat regionalized. That amount of money is insignificant when comparing the disadvantage you might place yourself in by choosing the wrong school for your end goals.

With that perspective I would ask the questions:

1. Where do you think you will want to live and practice?

2. Is there a special niche you might be interested in that you could exploit using the network, location, etc. offered by a law school?

3. Is there some special quality, instruction, advantage that one or more of those schools offer in comparison to the others?

As many posters have mentioned, the long term outlook of Louisiana is not bright. Tennessee and South Carolina have certain business, geographical, and other advantages over Louisiana now and looking into the future.

I would put LSU firmly behind the other two options unless she has some reason she wants to live in Louisiana. Even then, as her parent you should start to discuss and help her understand topics like this. As a 22 year old you have no clue about what it means to actually live somewhere and put down roots and how that can affect your life and your future family.