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I am an international student. If I wanna go to law firm in US after graduation, which one is better?

jasmine li wrote:I am an international student. If I wanna go to law firm in US after graduation, which one is better?

Are those amounts (129,000 & 75,000) the total COA or the scholarships you've been offered? If just the scholarships, provide the total COA.

We don't know your credentials, but if K-JD I would suggest T-14 so that you can increase your chances of BigLaw and H1-B sponsorship

I would follow the money in this situation.

I also think you should consider the idea of taking the LSAT again and reaching even higher than you are now.

Not to be presumptuous or pretentious, but based on the first post, OP might not be familiar with some of the TLS jargon being used in this thread.


COA = cost of attendance. How much money will it cost you to live there and go to school there, not just tuition

K-JD = essentially someone who is entering law school without having taken a break from school since they began kindergarten

T-14 = pretty common abbreviation, but it means the top 14 schools in the country

BigLaw = really large law firms which typically pay more and are typically harder to get into


Again, really sorry if the first post was just lazy grammar, but it didn't seem like it was written by someone with high-familiarity with a lot of the slang and abbreviations here (not to mention it was a new user's first post).

ub3r wrote:BigLaw = really large law firms which typically pay more and are typically harder to get into

Nope. Big firms have predictable hiring patterns and methods; essentially, if you get the rights grades at the right school you get a job. Everyone wants to work at a cushy midsized firm in a cool city, so most of them grow their ranks from biglaw laterals and pick fresh associates from the top of the class at local schools. Not readily attainable. Small firms typically pay no more than 60K to fresh associates and only hire near/after bar passage, and you're typically hired for factors other than grades (so it's less predictable).

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Ron Don Volante wrote:

ub3r wrote:BigLaw = really large law firms which typically pay more and are typically harder to get into

Nope. Big firms have predictable hiring patterns and methods; essentially, if you get the rights grades at the right school you get a job. Everyone wants to work at a cushy midsized firm in a cool city, so most of them grow their ranks from biglaw laterals and pick fresh associates from the top of the class at local schools. Not readily attainable. Small firms typically pay no more than 60K to fresh associates and only hire near/after bar passage, and you're typically hired for factors other than grades (so it's less predictable).

Cool, thanks man.

As soon as I made my post I was filled with the ominous feeling that I was wrong about some of the terms and had just outed myself. Glad it was just the one error.

No worries I've done that like 700ish times

Ron Don Volante wrote:No worries I've done that like 700ish times

So true