A question for Irena and other well informed insiders: people go to top law schools just to get into top law firms, which according to Irena, almost = sell one's soul for the money (at least to me it is so if you work 70-80 hours per week for 125k a year)? No other choices for law school graduates? I am preparing for LSAT now and of course want to go to a top law school. I am doing it for myself and for my family: I am married and have a one-year-old kid. You can say I am doing it very much for my kid(s)' future. But just because I am doing it for my kids I don't like the prospects that I'd work so many hours a week: I'd have no time for them then. I know how important it is that you don't just give them the money but spend some time with them.