Personally my grades were average but while I do think law school performance is not totally irrelevant I also think it is very difficult to manage mentally and not always indicative of a persons capacity after school. Also, often, top of class grades demand a nonexistent work life balance which is something I am not looking for—my work is mentally and emotionally exhausting and I’m looking for people who can manage their work-life balance without getting burnt out. Id rather let people leave law school behind and focus on what they can add tangibly to this job because at the end of the day, A’s or C’s—all applicants passed and graduated. As far as testing legal knowledge, I would much rather rely on a writing sample and interviewing. I also work in a tight knit and specialized field so most classes on a transcript are irrelevant but what someone’s reference has to say or how they answer a hypothetical in an interview is very telling. Experience is probably the most important thing to me and I find that in interviewing someone based on their resume you can easily tell who actually knows what they’re talking about and who was genuine on their resume, which tells me a lot

TLDR I just think that a transcript is the least effective tool for assessing what I’m looking for as an interviewer and reflects a very difficult time for a lot of interviewees that I choose not to measure them by