Likely isn't an option for them unless they're going to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, or do extremely well at a top 50 school. 98% of law grads aren't capable of getting an interview with Cravath. No undergrad student is choosing between being a big city attorney and a teacher in utah. They have no idea if they'll get a chance at something like cravath.

Nyc attorneys work 90 hours/week and get very little vacation compared with teacher's who work 9 month's get all holidays and work far fewer hours. Also, your not even comparing city to city why not compare new York city teacher's with NYC attorneys and Utah attorneys with utah teachers.

If you take away money very few would choose to be a NYC attorney. The type of person that would thrive as a teacher would likely not survive big firm life. And frankly people with the intelectual level of a nyc attorney and who are willing/competitive enough to work those hours would probably be choosing between professor and attorney not attorney and teacher. It's brutal, ruins a lot of marriages, and takes a very competitive peraonality that would likely be too bored with the lack of competition that comes from being a teacher.

Utah school teachers and nyc attorneys are totally different types of people and if you eliminated one profession or another neither would choose the other profession.

Sure, many teachers are capable of becoming great attorneys and nyc attorneys burnout and leave to teach but, the teachers that leave it's because they want a challenge and the attorneys that leave it's because they hate big law and want more fulfillment.


Not to mention, if you screw up at Cravath, you're fired.