Re: Please rank Florida Law Schools for me.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:34 am
I take it back if he's got like congenital blindness or something....orm518 wrote:he packed his shades for sunny Florida.
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I take it back if he's got like congenital blindness or something....orm518 wrote:he packed his shades for sunny Florida.
So you're a graduating law student? Are the rankings you give about fairly common views among others you know? As far as you can say...?Mickey Quicknumbers wrote:Haha, I'll be able to tell you a lot more clearly in about 5 months after I OCI, because that's the main place i'm trying to hit. But there is definitely a semblance of a legal market. There are about a 10ish "biglaw" offices in Orlando, and after the crash they went from hiring 10-12 SA's a year to 3-4. There are also a good handful of midlaw firms in the area. But it's going to be near impossible without good grades and significant contacts to the area (it's a small enough city that contacts do tend to matter).FeelTheHeat wrote:Mickey-
Is there any semblance of a legal market in Orlando? I'll be heading to FSU this fall and while I love south Florida, I've always enjoyed my time in Otown.
1. 1LTOMaHULK wrote:So you're a graduating law student? Are the rankings you give about fairly common views among others you know? As far as you can say...?Mickey Quicknumbers wrote:Haha, I'll be able to tell you a lot more clearly in about 5 months after I OCI, because that's the main place i'm trying to hit. But there is definitely a semblance of a legal market. There are about a 10ish "biglaw" offices in Orlando, and after the crash they went from hiring 10-12 SA's a year to 3-4. There are also a good handful of midlaw firms in the area. But it's going to be near impossible without good grades and significant contacts to the area (it's a small enough city that contacts do tend to matter).FeelTheHeat wrote:Mickey-
Is there any semblance of a legal market in Orlando? I'll be heading to FSU this fall and while I love south Florida, I've always enjoyed my time in Otown.
Mickey Quicknumbers wrote:1. 1LTOMaHULK wrote:So you're a graduating law student? Are the rankings you give about fairly common views among others you know? As far as you can say...?Mickey Quicknumbers wrote:Haha, I'll be able to tell you a lot more clearly in about 5 months after I OCI, because that's the main place i'm trying to hit. But there is definitely a semblance of a legal market. There are about a 10ish "biglaw" offices in Orlando, and after the crash they went from hiring 10-12 SA's a year to 3-4. There are also a good handful of midlaw firms in the area. But it's going to be near impossible without good grades and significant contacts to the area (it's a small enough city that contacts do tend to matter).FeelTheHeat wrote:Mickey-
Is there any semblance of a legal market in Orlando? I'll be heading to FSU this fall and while I love south Florida, I've always enjoyed my time in Otown.
2. I don't know many people who are looking in the Florida market, since i'm at school in Georgia, and the ones I do know don't really have a knowledgeable view of the Florida hiring market.
3. I honestly think those are correct rankings, with obviously a value statement put on each of the tiers. Mistergoft and Rad Law two other posters on this site who have a good idea what the Florida market is like right now, and I think they would agree with me, but who knows.
4. If you're an FSU UG, E.J and company are going to absolutely tear it up. I'm thinking 10-2 this year and a BCS bowl win.
Jenn Sterger? Is that you??TOMaHULK wrote:I'm a USF Grad. But I'm also a FSU ticket season holder.
Jenn's busy with the Favre attorneys...EricBerry wrote:Jenn Sterger? Is that you??TOMaHULK wrote:I'm a USF Grad. But I'm also a FSU ticket season holder.
Yes, there are about a half-dozen corporate firms that are 100+Mickey Quicknumbers wrote:Haha, I'll be able to tell you a lot more clearly in about 5 months after I OCI, because that's the main place i'm trying to hit. But there is definitely a semblance of a legal market. There are about a 10ish "biglaw" offices in Orlando, and after the crash they went from hiring 10-12 SA's a year to 3-4. There are also a good handful of midlaw firms in the area. But it's going to be near impossible without good grades and significant contacts to the area (it's a small enough city that contacts do tend to matter).FeelTheHeat wrote:Mickey-
Is there any semblance of a legal market in Orlando? I'll be heading to FSU this fall and while I love south Florida, I've always enjoyed my time in Otown.
No.Aberzombie1892 wrote:Not taking into account tuition costs and only taking into account placement:
1. U Florida/U Miami
I think these would be called boutique firms...no?Cupidity wrote:Yes, there are about a half-dozen corporate firms that are 100+Mickey Quicknumbers wrote:Haha, I'll be able to tell you a lot more clearly in about 5 months after I OCI, because that's the main place i'm trying to hit. But there is definitely a semblance of a legal market. There are about a 10ish "biglaw" offices in Orlando, and after the crash they went from hiring 10-12 SA's a year to 3-4. There are also a good handful of midlaw firms in the area. But it's going to be near impossible without good grades and significant contacts to the area (it's a small enough city that contacts do tend to matter).FeelTheHeat wrote:Mickey-
Is there any semblance of a legal market in Orlando? I'll be heading to FSU this fall and while I love south Florida, I've always enjoyed my time in Otown.
Akerman
Foley Lardner
Baker Hostetler
Carlton Fields
Holland and Kinght
and my personal favorite,
Lowndes, Drosnick, Doster, Kantor & Reed
There is also a thriving large-scale shit-law scene. nearly fifteen 50+ firms that do auto-accidents and wrongful termination suits.
The 2005 placement chart had them at peers and there is no indication anywhere that things have changed. Not in the 2009/2010/2011 placement charts, not in the federal clerkship data, nowhere. Granted it is likely that U Florida dominates the state with the exception of Miami, due to U Miami. If this is true, I still stand by my ranking because Miami is the most desirable job market in Florida.Cupidity wrote:No.Aberzombie1892 wrote:Not taking into account tuition costs and only taking into account placement:
1. U Florida/U Miami
May I ask why Florida Coastal comes about Stetson? Just curious, no debate attempt.Aberzombie1892 wrote:The 2005 placement chart had them at peers and there is no indication anywhere that things have changed. Not in the 2009/2010/2011 placement charts, not in the federal clerkship data, nowhere. Granted it is likely that U Florida dominates the state with the exception of Miami, due to U Miami. If this is true, I still stand by my ranking because Miami is the most desirable job market in Florida.Cupidity wrote:No.Aberzombie1892 wrote:Not taking into account tuition costs and only taking into account placement:
1. U Florida/U Miami
I do agree that U Miami tuition costs make it less desirable than U Florida. But that doesn't change what the data shows.
Read my other posts dating back 1.5 years...FeelTheHeat wrote:If you have to put that you aren't trolling at the end of your message, yeah, you're trolling. Tell the rest of the adcoms I said hi, though. Your office was very nice on the phone the other day.
GreyRobinson?Cupidity wrote:Yes, there are about a half-dozen corporate firms that are 100+Mickey Quicknumbers wrote:Haha, I'll be able to tell you a lot more clearly in about 5 months after I OCI, because that's the main place i'm trying to hit. But there is definitely a semblance of a legal market. There are about a 10ish "biglaw" offices in Orlando, and after the crash they went from hiring 10-12 SA's a year to 3-4. There are also a good handful of midlaw firms in the area. But it's going to be near impossible without good grades and significant contacts to the area (it's a small enough city that contacts do tend to matter).FeelTheHeat wrote:Mickey-
Is there any semblance of a legal market in Orlando? I'll be heading to FSU this fall and while I love south Florida, I've always enjoyed my time in Otown.
Akerman
Foley Lardner
Baker Hostetler
Carlton Fields
Holland and Kinght
and my personal favorite,
Lowndes, Drosnick, Doster, Kantor & Reed
There is also a thriving large-scale shit-law scene. nearly fifteen 50+ firms that do auto-accidents and wrongful termination suits.
Morgan and Morgan is in Tampa.Mickey Quicknumbers wrote:GreyRobinson?Cupidity wrote:Yes, there are about a half-dozen corporate firms that are 100+Mickey Quicknumbers wrote:Haha, I'll be able to tell you a lot more clearly in about 5 months after I OCI, because that's the main place i'm trying to hit. But there is definitely a semblance of a legal market. There are about a 10ish "biglaw" offices in Orlando, and after the crash they went from hiring 10-12 SA's a year to 3-4. There are also a good handful of midlaw firms in the area. But it's going to be near impossible without good grades and significant contacts to the area (it's a small enough city that contacts do tend to matter).FeelTheHeat wrote:Mickey-
Is there any semblance of a legal market in Orlando? I'll be heading to FSU this fall and while I love south Florida, I've always enjoyed my time in Otown.
Akerman
Foley Lardner
Baker Hostetler
Carlton Fields
Holland and Kinght
and my personal favorite,
Lowndes, Drosnick, Doster, Kantor & Reed
There is also a thriving large-scale shit-law scene. nearly fifteen 50+ firms that do auto-accidents and wrongful termination suits.
Broad and Cassel?
Those are the two 150+ firms that are actually headquartered in Orlando, also, there are a decent number of midsized (30-40 person) firms in Orlando that do not-shitlaw work. and then there's the great powerhouse- Morgan & Morgan: for the people.
Aww, that's cute.nodummy wrote:UMiami (Because it has a better reputation with big firms around the country.)
UF (Only thing going: cheaper than UMiami.)
FSU (Regional)
Stetson (Regional)
The rest...
Miami places a lot of grads in top markets outside of South Florida. It has a bad reputation on TLS and other law blogs/forums that are primarily written/commented on by angry morons who won't make it with or without a law degree. These people, for the most part, are unhappy with expensive law schools in general, and UMiami is expensive compared to similarly ranked schools. That said, it's what you make of it that matters and UMiami will open more doors than most people on here think.
(Not trolling, just telling you what I've learned from speaking with people currently practicing, who don't have time for blogging.)
They've expanded to Tampa, but they're from Orlando.TOMaHULK wrote:
Morgan and Morgan is in Tampa.