There is a pecking order here. At the top of the food chain for legal scholarship is the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal and a handful of other prestigious publications. But we still attract over 900 submissions in a year. But we still are able to do very high quality work. Getting picked for law review is still a very big deal.
Students compete in writing competitions or are chosen because of exceptional grades.
Many employers, particularly at large law firms, consider law review membership a big plus on a r sum . Law reviews have received their share of criticism over the years. Many people, frankly, find them boring. The other is its content. More recently, law reviews have been criticized for being technologically irrelevant.