KMFlorie

Diaz supposedly is a defensive whiz, but he's hitting just .253 with a .309/.310/.619 line this season and a .335 BABIP. He's also at 60K/22 BB. Essentially a Jack Wilson clone with less power.

Diaz supposedly is a defensive whiz, but he's hitting just .253 with a .309/.310/.619 line this season and a .335 BABIP. He's also at 60K/22 BB. Essentially a Jack Wilson clone with less power.

Report is Argenis Diaz (AA - SS) and Hunter Strickland (A - P). Doesn't seem that either is having that great of a season, but I'm not sure they could expect to get all that much for LaRoche. His value is pretty low right now.

Report is Argenis Diaz (AA - SS) and Hunter Strickland (A - P). Doesn't seem that either is having that great of a season, but I'm not sure they could expect to get all that much for LaRoche. His value is pretty low right now.

If you live near a Circuit City, you may still be able to take advantage of their liquidation sale. The Circuit City near me (South Bend, IN) still receives new shipments daily and has HDTV's 30-50% off. When I went earlier this week, CC had a sizable inventory of current generation Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, and LG sets in a wide range of sizes. Excepting the floor models, all of the TVs were still in the box (full warranty, etc.). I wasn't looking to purchase a TV, however, so I didn't price check the Circuit City discounts against internet sources.

I am a 3L at a law school in northern Indiana. I went to Marquette as an undergrad and think very highly of its law school. However, I believe the financial aspect of law school should be your most significant consideration in making this decision. Marquette's tuition is more than 32K per year, which totals 96K for your law school stay without considering any room and board. Assuming that the other schools you are considering have a similar cost (though I believe they are less expensive), you would pay only 24K in total for the school offering you a 75% scholarship. Choosing to pay 72K more for a similar degree requires, in my opinion, far more than the differences offered to you by Marquette. First and foremost, don't overvalue the diploma privilege. Though not having to study and take the bar exam is a nice perk, Wisconsin's bar passage rates are extraordinarily high (89% overall, 92% for first time takers - http://www.ncbex.org/file..._Admissions/2007stats.pdf). Furthermore, if you are looking to do corporate work and land a job with a large firm, that firm will pay all of your bar expenses and prep fees, as well as give you a monthly stipend during a summer where you review for the bar in lieu of working. Not a bad gig. In addition, you must consider not only the type of job that you want to take, but the probability that you will attain that type of job. As mentioned above, corporate jobs pay much more than public interest jobs or government jobs. This should not discourage you from going to law school if you want to take one of those jobs, but should weigh on how much debt you want to take on to earn your degree. Marquette has some information on their website relating to these differences in pay (http://law.marquette.edu/...e.pl?2130&pageID=2171), though they fail to indicate how many students were placed at each level of compensation within each sector of employment. On a related topic, you should take note of the ongoing controversy in the legal education industry with regard to career service information provided by law schools and the value of legal degrees. The Wall Street Journal published a page one article on this topic that I think gives a pretty good treatment of the issues (http://online.wsj.com/art...0786780835602-search.html). Furthermore, if you are looking to go into corporate work, you should take note of the significant contraction occuring in that legal market. I will be working for a corporate firm in Chicago starting this fall. Though I consider myself lucky because my firm has yet to fire any attorneys, as many other firms have, the firm decided to reduce this year's class of summer associates (from which the following year's class of full time associates is selected) by 30%. Some of my friends have seen even larger summer class reductions, delayed starting dates, or cutbacks at their firms. Based on the current economic problems, I would expect the employment outcomes for the current 2Ls at my school to fall short of the employment outcomes for the same class the previous year. Whether those jobs return by the time you are looking for work remains to be seen, but banking on such an immediate reemergence seems risky at best. Finally, though I agree with others on this board that a Marquette law degree provides an advantage if you want to work in Milwaukee, success remains a key ingredient to landing a job in any market. Milwaukee firms, judges, or government offices will have a hard time turning you down if you graduate in the top five or ten percent of your class regardless of which law school you attend. Furthermore, outside of the Milwaukee area, the Marquette advantage presumably dims somewhat. Between my first and second year of law school, I worked for a trial judge in a county a bit north of Milwaukee. In this county, the judge I worked for, the district attorney I dealt with on a regular basis, and two of the prominent defense attorneys all graduated from Hamline. Furthermore, I should note that as a law student in Indiana, I had no problems securing interviews or offers from firms in Milwaukee despite the lack of a Marquette law school connection. I guess all of this is a long winded way of suggesting that the benefits offered by Marquette probably pale in comparison to that 75% reduction in tuition. However, as I said before, I love MU and have substantial respect for both the law school and its graduates. On a purely educational basis, I don't think you would be making a mistake by choosing MU. If you have any other questions, please feel free to send me a message.