Kretzy wrote:RVP11 wrote:Panther7 wrote:If you know what region you want to work in, go to the best school in that region and find summer jobs in that region. Seriously. It's that simple.
Again, if you want to work at a BIG FIRM, it's not that simple.
Say you wanted to work at a big firm in Denver, and you have Denver ties.
Would it be smarter to attend CU or a T14? The T14, by a landslide.
I'm really interested in hearing more about this, because having spoken with a bunch of attorneys in Denver (and being local), I've heard Denver BigLaw goes: HYS................CCNB.....CU.....T14....DU.
Spend some time looking at firm bios of people at Sherman & Howard, Holland & Hart, Holme Roberts & Owen, Davis Graham, etc. My guess is you'll see a lot of CU and DU Law Review and a lot of T14ers without Law Review or graduation honors. That should tell you something.
I know someone from my T14 who got Denver BigLaw with sub-median grades. Even when the economy was good, virtually no one below median from CU was getting that level of job.
I question why these "bunch of attorneys in Denver" would say that Berkeley > other T14s. Looking at firms like WTO, H&H, and S&H, you'll probably find just as many, if not more attorneys from MVP than from B.
Also, according to NALP, here's where the main Denver-based firms recruited on campus:
Sherman:
Duke University School of Law
Northwestern University School of Law
University of Colorado School of Law
University of Denver College of Law
University of Iowa College of Law
University of Michigan Law School
University of Minnesota Law School
University of Texas School of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Washington University School of Law
HRO:
Harvard Law School
Northwestern University School of Law
Stanford Law School
University of Colorado School of Law
University of Denver College of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
To my knowledge, H&H and WTO don't go to Berkeley OCI, either. I find it quite surprising that your panel of Denver attorneys would throw Berkeley out there as a top placer in Denver. I doubt firms in Denver are really holding different standards for lower T14 schools, but even if they are, it doesn't seem to be in favor of Berkeley.