Top 10%, biglaw...what next? Forum
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Top 10%, biglaw...what next?
TLS has served as a guide since my early LSAT days, propelling me to choose a full ride at BLS, to achieve top grades, and to succeed in OCI. Now I'm top 10%, I have a biglaw summer associate position lined up, and 2L classes are a joke. The question: What next? Is there anything that you did during your 2L and 3L year that helped to define who you are as a lawyer? Is there anything that you wish you would have done during these final years of law school?
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Re: Top 10%, biglaw...what next?
Lol bro get a full-time offer and come back
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Of course. I'm more referring to during the academic year.
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Re: Top 10%, biglaw...what next?
Keep being a gunner and go for Law Review Ed Board and clerkship, or just enjoy life outside of law school.
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Is law review ed board really worth the resume boost? I heard it's a shit ton of work. I served my time as a hermit during 1L.
Same question for clerkship. They're obviously useful if you don't have an offer, as a way to get biglaw without a summer associate. But is it wise to defer biglaw for a year in order to do a clerkship?
Same question for clerkship. They're obviously useful if you don't have an offer, as a way to get biglaw without a summer associate. But is it wise to defer biglaw for a year in order to do a clerkship?
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Re: Top 10%, biglaw...what next?
you keep your grades up so you don't get no offered
you work hard this summer to get an offer
you study hard for the bar so you don't fail
you work hard at work so you don't get fired
you grind away at biglaw even though you hate it
you live like a monk and put every dollar towards your loans just you escape the hell of biglaw a little bit sooner
years later you finally make that last loan payment
net worth: $0. just like the day you were born
and then you kill yourself
on balance, in balance
you work hard this summer to get an offer
you study hard for the bar so you don't fail
you work hard at work so you don't get fired
you grind away at biglaw even though you hate it
you live like a monk and put every dollar towards your loans just you escape the hell of biglaw a little bit sooner
years later you finally make that last loan payment
net worth: $0. just like the day you were born
and then you kill yourself
on balance, in balance
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LMAOfats provolone wrote:you keep your grades up so you don't get no offered
you work hard this summer to get an offer
you study hard for the bar so you don't fail
you work hard at work so you don't get fired
you grind away at biglaw even though you hate it
you live like a monk and put every dollar towards your loans just you escape the hell of biglaw a little bit sooner
years later you finally make that last loan payment
net worth: $0. just like the day you were born
and then you kill yourself
on balance, in balance
I shouldn't be laughing because this is reality for some people. But I don't have any loans, I'm on a full scholly and living like a peasant. Please write another poetic verse with that in mind
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you can just skip to the end then
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minimum debt here. I'll probably save 200k, move to a country in south america with no coke problem and retire at 32.
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So just to summarize the ideas that have been proposed so far:
1. Run for LR Editor
2. Clerkship
3. Enjoy life outside of law school
4. Get an offer from biglaw
5. Commerce a cocaine market in a South American country
6. Commit suicide
Very insightful. In terms of getting the offer from biglaw, do they really care about your upperclass grades? I was under the impression that they judge you entirely based on your work over the summer.
1. Run for LR Editor
2. Clerkship
3. Enjoy life outside of law school
4. Get an offer from biglaw
5. Commerce a cocaine market in a South American country
6. Commit suicide
Very insightful. In terms of getting the offer from biglaw, do they really care about your upperclass grades? I was under the impression that they judge you entirely based on your work over the summer.
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no they don't care
i don't get it though. if you have no debt why not do something more interesting than biglaw.
i don't get it though. if you have no debt why not do something more interesting than biglaw.
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This should be all over TLS.fats provolone wrote:you keep your grades up so you don't get no offered
you work hard this summer to get an offer
you study hard for the bar so you don't fail
you work hard at work so you don't get fired
you grind away at biglaw even though you hate it
you live like a monk and put every dollar towards your loans just you escape the hell of biglaw a little bit sooner
years later you finally make that last loan payment
net worth: $0. just like the day you were born
and then you kill yourself
on balance, in balance
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OP you should probably go on some dates.
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This is not hard.mvp99 wrote:Lol bro get a full-time offer and come back
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You should definitely not do E board or clerkship gunning. Some people need or want that prestige, but you sound more like I was. If you're not drawn to the inherent benefits of clerking, then no, it's not worth the hard work or the pay cut.BrooklynLaw16 wrote:Is law review ed board really worth the resume boost? I heard it's a shit ton of work. I served my time as a hermit during 1L.
Same question for clerkship. They're obviously useful if you don't have an offer, as a way to get biglaw without a summer associate. But is it wise to defer biglaw for a year in order to do a clerkship?
Your 2L and 3L classes don't matter either, nor do they define who you become as a lawyer. Your firm also will not care what classes you take. Select classes based on which professors are easiest, which classes are uncurved, what time the classes meet (target 4-day weekends), and which classes have the hottest girls.
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Money and the ability to lateral to something more fulfilling whenever I choose.fats provolone wrote:no they don't care
i don't get it though. if you have no debt why not do something more interesting than biglaw.
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Say hi to me next time you see me on campus? hahahah
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Enjoy your life. Start building a network you can use to leave your shitty biglaw life.
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lmaofats provolone wrote:you can just skip to the end then
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