Question about PharmD/JD

[murdainc]

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I know that this topic has been brought up numerous times w/o any solid answers, but I wanted to know what you guys think about the importance of law school rank. Do you think it is necessary to get into a T14 (top 14) law school (with your PharmD) to land a good job or do you think that the PharmD/JD combo is good enough regardless of which school you go to.

 

[Express08]

I only know personally of one PharmD/JD, so my n=1.

If you want to go into pharmacy malpractice - the rank of your law school is not very important.

If you want to go into industrial law, corporate law, patent rights law for big Pharma, your pharmD is not that important.

Guess it depends on what emphasis you want to put on what....

 

[Aznfarmerboi]

In any scenario, it is fair to say that you should go for t14 schools because it can only help you. In world of law, your JD is almost worthless if you dont.

 

[murdainc]

Yea, my goal is definitely T14... But in the chance that I do not get in, I just wanted to see whether it would still be worth it or not

Do you know why the school isn't as important for pharmacy malpractice? Is that a general thing for all malpractice law?

 

[Express08]

First, pharmacy malpractice cases are rare, although the ones with publicity don't make you think so.

Second, most malpractice cases are handled by corporate or your employer's lawyers - depending on who you work for, they handle gobs of lawsuits & pharmacy is just one (grocery stores handle everything from falls to codefendants in cases of contaminated food, "drug chains" handle merchandise failure - ie...cheap jewerly from china that caused lead poisoning, hospitals do all sorts of health related death & injury) in addition - they all do worker's comp. So - there are lots and lots of lawyers & you need to be good in not just pharmacy malpractice.

The attorney's I know who do ONLY pharmacy malpractice are the ones who either are expert witnesses (they know the pharmacy & can speak the "speak") or who handle the civil end of a malpractice case - when you alone are sued - not you & and your employer or your employer coverage has maxed out & the plaintiff wants to go after everything.

When I look at where the attorney's went to school who are in the insurance company I buy my malpractice from - I don't see Harvard, Yale, Boalt of Hastings......but, then - I don't know law school either. And, I don't even know if those guys would even handle a case - if its a slam dunk loss - it would be pawned off on someone else.

I dunno - there are plenty of night school lawyers out there - do you think you'd win hands down if one of them went up against you in a malpractice? No - if they had a case - even a night school lawyer could take it.