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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:50 am
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FTFY.Cavalier wrote:Each firm has a magical hat that they make you put on the first day you begin working. After taking anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes, the hat will bellow"LITIGATION!""GRYFFINDOR!" or"CORPORATE!""SLYTHERIN!" or occasionally"TAX!""RAVENCLAW!" (nobody wants to be in Ravenclaw) and that's where you'll be assigned.
You don't write personal statements to law firms. You can indicate interest in a practice group in your cover letter, sure.PriOSky wrote:It is ok to talk about having a specific interest in corporate law and wanting to practice corporate law in the personal statement?
The personal statement, as long as it's well written, isn't going to help you. If there were grammatical or spelling errors it could certainly hope. if anything, not writing about wanting to save the world might be refreshing to an adcomm.PriOSky wrote:What I meant was, would indicating an interest in corporate law in the personal statement be a turnoff for adcomms because I don't get to choose my practice area after I graduate? Or would it not matter?
did you think this was serious?PriOSky wrote:What I meant was, would indicating an interest in corporate law in the personal statement be a turnoff for adcomms because I don't get to choose my practice area after I graduate? Or would it be something that I could write about if I'm genuinely interested in corporate law?
Cavalier wrote:Each firm has a magical hat that they make you put on the first day you begin working. After taking anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes, the hat will bellow "LITIGATION!" or "CORPORATE!" or occasionally "TAX!" and that's where you'll be assigned.
FTFYmaxm2764 wrote:FTFY.Cavalier wrote:Each firm has a magical hat that they make you put on the first day you begin working. After taking anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes, the hat will bellow"LITIGATION!""GRYFFINDOR!" or"CORPORATE!""SLYTHERIN!" or occasionally"TAX!""RAVENCLAW!" (nobody wants to be in Ravenclaw) and that's where you'll be assigned. Or, if you're a huge nerd,IP!HUFFLEPUFF!
PriOSky wrote:What I meant was, would indicating an interest in corporate law in the personal statement be a turnoff for adcomms because I don't get to choose my practice area after I graduate? Or would it be something that I could write about if I'm genuinely interested in corporate law?
+1. And adcom don't care if you have a 170+ LSAT and 3.9+ GPA.TTH wrote:The personal statement, as long as it's well written, isn't going to help you. If there were grammatical or spelling errors it could certainly hope. if anything, not writing about wanting to save the world might be refreshing to an adcomm.PriOSky wrote:What I meant was, would indicating an interest in corporate law in the personal statement be a turnoff for adcomms because I don't get to choose my practice area after I graduate? Or would it not matter?
I found that including how I like to make people cry in my PS helped me out most of all. (Of course, I had requisite spelling/grammar errors, and said I wanted to go to law school irregardless of the economy, so those might of been factors too.)tea_drinker wrote:+1. And adcom don't care if you have a 170+ LSAT and 3.9+ GPA.TTH wrote:The personal statement, as long as it's well written, isn't going to help you. If there were grammatical or spelling errors it could certainly hope. if anything, not writing about wanting to save the world might be refreshing to an adcomm.PriOSky wrote:What I meant was, would indicating an interest in corporate law in the personal statement be a turnoff for adcomms because I don't get to choose my practice area after I graduate? Or would it not matter?
170 OR 3.8+tea_drinker wrote:+1. And adcom don't care if you have a 170+ LSAT and 3.9+ GPA.TTH wrote:The personal statement, as long as it's well written, isn't going to help you. If there were grammatical or spelling errors it could certainly hope. if anything, not writing about wanting to save the world might be refreshing to an adcomm.PriOSky wrote:What I meant was, would indicating an interest in corporate law in the personal statement be a turnoff for adcomms because I don't get to choose my practice area after I graduate? Or would it not matter?
TBF, the post contains an element of truth.Patriot1208 wrote:did you think this was serious?PriOSky wrote:What I meant was, would indicating an interest in corporate law in the personal statement be a turnoff for adcomms because I don't get to choose my practice area after I graduate? Or would it be something that I could write about if I'm genuinely interested in corporate law?
Cavalier wrote:Each firm has a magical hat that they make you put on the first day you begin working. After taking anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes, the hat will bellow "LITIGATION!" or "CORPORATE!" or occasionally "TAX!" and that's where you'll be assigned.
everybody wants tax law.... EVERYBODY. Or they should.Cavalier wrote:Each firm has a magical hat that they make you put on the first day you begin working. After taking anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes, the hat will bellow "LITIGATION!" or "CORPORATE!" or occasionally "TAX!" and that's where you'll be assigned.
everybody wants tax law.... EVERYBODY. Or they should.
Yeah but ITE is going to look like boom times for you guys when we eventually get that flat tax w/ few/no deductions...nealric wrote:everybody wants tax law.... EVERYBODY. Or they should.
Tax is the king of biglaw practice groups for jr. associates.
No doc review.
No due diligence.
No spending all night looking for typos and misplaced commas.
You do real, substantive work from day one. The best part is, everyone chooses corp or lit because they think tax is "boring". Suckers.
That will happen around the time we reduce the national debt to zero.Yeah but ITE is going to look like boom times for you guys when we eventually get that flat tax w/ few/no deductions...
Yeah, I chuckled when I typed my original post. I'm just jealous of the tax lifestyle.nealric wrote:That will happen around the time we reduce the national debt to zero.Yeah but ITE is going to look like boom times for you guys when we eventually get that flat tax w/ few/no deductions...
How much less taxing is tax than corp or lit? Serious question, tax looks kind of interesting.nealric wrote:everybody wants tax law.... EVERYBODY. Or they should.
Tax is the king of biglaw practice groups for jr. associates.
No doc review.
No due diligence.
No spending all night looking for typos and misplaced commas.
You do real, substantive work from day one. The best part is, everyone chooses corp or lit because they think tax is "boring". Suckers.