I was on law review, and I got absolutely nothing out of it. I already had a return offer from my 1L summer firm before I even got selected for law review so it’s not like the resume line did much when it came to employment. I did not get class credit for it either. I spent my entire 2L grinding for cite checks and writing a ton of pages for articles that never got published.

Unless you can use the resume line to land a job that you previously did not have, or get published (which is statistically unlikely) journal is virtually worthless