I also think it's a little silly to be slamming law firms for having nice lobbies, etc. First of all, most big businesses do the same thing, be it law, i-banking, etc. Also, does it really make much of a difference? Most, if not all, law students know what life is like working at a BigLaw firm (and if they don't, they should ask). So how effective are they at selling this posh, glamorous lifestyle we are imagining? Is it possible that we are seeing the salaries and imaging that lifestyle ourselves, and we don't need any help from them to do it? Also, a) maybe clients like the pretty lobbies too; b) lawyers have big egos, so it's probably just managing partners competing amongst themselves; and c) Skadden DC had virtually no lobby, and didn't really try to shower anyone with love and affection; they just wanted the work done and done perfectly.

Lastly, from my experience Gtown has the same anxiety level as CLS, if not worse. Is there anyone else who thinks the anxiety probably did not start in law school, but is deeply rooted somewhere else? I've never been anxious about grades and haven't started to be here. It seems like 'grade panic' cannot have just started in law school. I look around me and see a total lack of self-confidence in many of my peers which baffles me. We have made it this far, why don't we believe in ourselves that no matter what happens here we can and will succeed? I've tried to impart this on people, often to no avail. How can we give up so easily? A couple 'bad' grades and it's all over? We can't really believe that, can we?