Unemployed 3L - Too late to apply to mid-sized firms? Forum

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:33 pm

I'm a 3L at CLS/NYU, still without a post-graduate job. Planning to spend a week or so taget-mailing NYC midsized firms, but should I even bother at this point? is it too late for those?

Thanks.

CanadianWolf · Post by **CanadianWolf** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:36 pm

Are you asking "is it too late to search for a job" ? What else do you plan to do after graduating law school ?

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:40 pm

CanadianWolf wrote:Are you asking "is it too late to search for a job" ? What else do you plan to do after graduating law school ?

No, whether it's too late to apply to midsized firms. E.g. it is obviously too late to be mass-mailing biglaw right now.

KMaine · Post by **KMaine** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:41 pm

Really? What is the up side of not doing this?

bk1 · Post by **bk1** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:41 pm

I have no idea but considering it is only a week of your time and you're a jobless 3L, why not?

stintez · Post by **stintez** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:44 pm

CanadianWolf wrote:Are you asking "is it too late to search for a job" ? What else do you plan to do after graduating law school ?

+1

Voyager · Post by **Voyager** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:35 pm

No, it is not too late. But mailings aren't going to do it.

Here is a thread that might help you a bit:

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 3&t=117187

Renzo · Post by **Renzo** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:03 pm

Nah. At this point, I'd just sit back and wait for a job to find you.

ggocat · Post by **ggocat** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:53 pm

Not too late. Maybe too early, actually. (But you might as well apply).

Bosque · Post by **Bosque** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:06 pm

Renzo wrote:Nah. At this point, I'd just sit back and wait for a job to find you.

This is indubitably the greatest single piece of advice I have ever had the good fortune to lay my eyes upon.

warumnicht · Post by **warumnicht** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:32 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
CanadianWolf wrote:Are you asking "is it too late to search for a job" ? What else do you plan to do after graduating law school ?
No, whether it's too late to apply to midsized firms. E.g. it is obviously too late to be mass-mailing biglaw right now.

Ignoring all the snide remarks from other posters, no, it's not too late. According to my T-14 school's Symplicity listings, quite a few midsized firms are looking for entry-level associates. None of them are from NYC, however. A good portion of our class does tend to go on to work in NYC, so I don't know if the lack of NYC postings means that midsized NYC firms are basically done hiring or if they are looking at other schools first before they turn to us.

My recommendation is to expand your search beyond NYC mid-law and look elsewhere. Mid-law in secondary markets is for sure still hiring and will continue to do so through the next couple of months. Midsized law firms often don't project their needs as far into the future as biglaw does; therefore, their hiring extends into the spring semester.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:06 am

I'm a 2L at CLS/NYU w/out a job still and will be trying the same thing and hoping to god for something. Not helping that realize that only people who get jobs at Fall OCI as 3Ls are those who were indoctrinated the previous summer at a firm. So stuck competing against no offers and those who feel they must go to a "better" firm.

patrickd139 · Post by **patrickd139** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:14 am

Bosque wrote:
Renzo wrote:Nah. At this point, I'd just sit back and wait for a job to find you.
This is indubitably the greatest single piece of advice I have ever had the good fortune to lay my eyes upon.

Absolute no-curve-180 Renzo

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