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Decide my 1L Summer Poll
Thoughts? I have the following two options for my 1L summer.
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Re: Decide my 1L Summer Poll
So....this isn't as close a decision as I thought?
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To me, RA screams no one would hire me, so my school took pity on me to prevent me from dropping out. However untrue that may actually be.
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Re: Decide my 1L Summer Poll
Small firm pays lightly, lets say $8.00 an hr
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Hiring partner at a V50 told me he despises RA positions because there's little that's genuinely interesting about them, no matter how esteemed the professor or interesting the subject matter. "You can't tell me a good war story and so I won't care."Anonymous User wrote:To me, RA screams no one would hire me, so my school took pity on me to prevent me from dropping out. However untrue that may actually be.
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Re: Decide my 1L Summer Poll
Really not true. Many of the 2Ls I know who RA'd 1L summer are headed off to V5's and V10's.Anonymous User wrote:To me, RA screams no one would hire me, so my school took pity on me to prevent me from dropping out. However untrue that may actually be.
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I was kinda hoping by combining the RA with a small firm would help address this. RA is also paid $10 an hour.Anonymous User wrote:Hiring partner at a V50 told me he despises RA positions because there's little that's genuinely interesting about them, no matter how esteemed the professor or interesting the subject matter. "You can't tell me a good war story and so I won't care."Anonymous User wrote:To me, RA screams no one would hire me, so my school took pity on me to prevent me from dropping out. However untrue that may actually be.
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Re: Decide my 1L Summer Poll
Your choice turns on two questions:
(1) What is your target market?
If you're targeting, say Birmingham or Oklahoma City or another small, secondary/tertiary market, then I would hesitate to take a position somewhere else. If you're targeting NYC or DC or another large market, then this isn't really a concern.
(2) What do you want to do with your career?
If you're interested in criminal law, then go with that. If you're interested in private practice or non-criminal government work, then I would say go with the judicial internship.
(1) What is your target market?
If you're targeting, say Birmingham or Oklahoma City or another small, secondary/tertiary market, then I would hesitate to take a position somewhere else. If you're targeting NYC or DC or another large market, then this isn't really a concern.
(2) What do you want to do with your career?
If you're interested in criminal law, then go with that. If you're interested in private practice or non-criminal government work, then I would say go with the judicial internship.