Corporate Lawyer - MBA Employment Prospects

^You're definitely going to have trouble getting into a top 20 BSchool with only 14months of experience. Some of the top schools (i.e. Kellogg) go as far as nearly requiring at least 24 months of work experience. Even the schools you mentioned (Fuqua/Darden/Ross) are going to admit very few students with less than 2 years of WE.

Can you wait and apply next year, or maybe the year after that? Your law degree isn't going to be what holds you back, instead it's going to be your lack of WE.

Your skills will be valuable in b-school. M&A is useful for business development, and bankruptcy is useful for managing distressed companies. The less than 2 year work experience can be an issue; however, it's not a deal breaker. There's a FY student here at Fuqua from HLS who has less than average work experience. I think it all depends on the quality of your experience.

If you just want to brush up on business skills, you can check out some of the non-MBA masters program. Fuqua offers a MMS program (1 year). There's a UCLA law grad doing that this year. You will stand out in these pre-MBA programs that will allow you to land a promising offer. After you get some solid experience, you can also go back for an MBA.

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I was thinking the same thing as asimov. If I'm not mistaken, I think nink's profile shows he's in restructuring and distressed M&A out of Yale. Seems like a perfect career goal for your MBA applications.

If I were you, I would work for another year or two.