re: Is going to a ‘bad’ Law School worth doing?

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For some reason most outside of the profession have a view of Top tier schools and their graduates that is not objectively deserved. There is this reverential view of schools primarily along the East Coast, primarily in New England and the mid Atlantic, that objectively they don't deserve

Whereas people like Scalia, Kavanaugh and Thomas are smart guys, they really don't have records of actually practicing the law, representing people...individuals, etc. Look at most of their CV's. Most of their experience has been on the governmental end. Maybe some of them spent nominal time in US Attorneys offices.

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I agree, but perception is reality. And in a flooded legal hiring world where the name on your degree is your only differentiator, the status of your school is what will get you a job in the safest and surest paths to money and stability, which are in a large corporate firm or federal agency.

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I'm just saying the hard work in the Law is done by people who went to schools like Memphis, LSU, Loyola, Western Michigan, etc..

Granted, guys from those Top 25 can be good, and often times more than competent and some can be great Rainmakers for their firms. But the scappers get the job done and make it all work

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I agree. But the vast majority of people going to law school don't realize they will have to be "scrappers" to make it. They go to law school thinking that the legal world is like becoming a doctor where you get a degree and everyone wants to hire you and you are highly likely to do well. They go to law school because they don't know what else to do and think a JD will prevent them from having to take the risky path of being a "scrapper."