West Virginia Legal Market Forum

[Anonymous User]

So how is everyone enjoying their summers?

[Anonymous User]

Everyone done?

[Anonymous User]

Surprised no one kicked this thread back up post-OCI. Hope everyone out there this year got permanent/return offers!

[descartesb4thehorse]

Thank you for bumping this. This is quickly rising the ranks of my favorite thread on TLS, even though it reminds me of my great WV strikeout at OCI.

[Anonymous User]

I summered at a large WV firm but declined to return. Interesting experience though.

[Anonymous User]

Care to talk about why you declined to return?

[Anonymous User]

Interviewed with 3 firms at OCI, ties, waiting to hear back still.

[Anonymous User]

Thank you for bumping this. This is quickly rising the ranks of my favorite thread on TLS, even though it reminds me of my great WV strikeout at OCI.

It's an oddly hard market to crack even for those with ties. I will say that I feel I got pretty lucky in getting my full time offer.

[descartesb4thehorse]

Thank you for bumping this. This is quickly rising the ranks of my favorite thread on TLS, even though it reminds me of my great WV strikeout at OCI.

It's an oddly hard market to crack even for those with ties. I will say that I feel I got pretty lucky in getting my full time offer.

Yea, I mean I was born and raised there, but I got some kickback during my 1L callbacks, not for going to a T14 but for not doing undergrad in WV. Granted, I put most of my secondary market energy into Pittsburgh (where I did a lot better), but it still stung a bit that I totally struck out at the screener stage. Mostly because the dude who did get the CB for at least one firm had much weaker ties and openly mocked the West Virginia legal market.

[Anonymous User]

Care to talk about why you declined to return?

Anon from above that declined to return. I summered with one of the big 3 firms.

Speaking generally, I did not like the people/atmosphere. I think the firm itself was okay (I think) but not the people.

[Anonymous User]

Bump....any movement? Specifically asking about the big Charleston firms -- Steptoe and Dinsmore.

[Anonymous User]

Bump....any movement? Specifically asking about the big Charleston firms -- Steptoe and Dinsmore.

I'd been waiting to hear back from Dinsmore and finally got a rejection in the mail last week.

[Anonymous User]

Bump

[Anonymous User]

Anyone get any starting dates? I'll be starting with Nelson Mullins in September.

[BlueLotus]

OP here. Congrats to those with WV firm offers! Interesting to see how this thread evolved.

UPDATE: It turned out that my friend's zeal for WV dried up when he ended up hitting brick walls in his jerb hunt last spring and he ended up not doing any legal work over the summer.

Can having nothing for 1L summer be salvaged? I'd imagine it would raise huuuuuge red flags, but w/e.

[Anonymous User]

It's really going to hurt him. Everyone will ask what he was doing with his life for that time period and why he wasn't working.

[BlueLotus]

It's really going to hurt him. Everyone will ask what he was doing with his life for that time period and why he wasn't working.

yeah, that is what i figured. i mean, if i were the interviewer, i would have asked the same too...

[BlueLotus]

well he did found a non-profit during that period which is now 501c3...perhaps it could be spun as quasi-legal?

[Anonymous User]

Anyone know off hand when WV begins accepting character and fitness stuff? I had an email from the head of the bar but I can't seem to find it. I want to say it begins in March.

[BlueLotus]

BUMP. My friend got nothing for 1L AND 2L summer. Screwed?

[Anonymous User]

BUMP. My friend got nothing for 1L AND 2L summer. Screwed?

yes. grades?

[BlueLotus]

BUMP. My friend got nothing for 1L AND 2L summer. Screwed?

yes. grades?

no idea, i generally don't ask. he is not on a journal, though. no clinics, externships, or pro bono work either. he thoroughly confuses me!

[Anonymous User]

BUMP. My friend got nothing for 1L AND 2L summer. Screwed?

yes. grades?

no idea, i generally don't ask. he is not on a journal, though. no clinics, externships, or pro bono work either. he thoroughly confuses me!

minimal options. hope he is on scholarship bc the outlook is very grim.

[BlueLotus]

BUMP. My friend got nothing for 1L AND 2L summer. Screwed?

yes. grades?

no idea, i generally don't ask. he is not on a journal, though. no clinics, externships, or pro bono work either. he thoroughly confuses me!

minimal options. hope he is on scholarship bc the outlook is very grim.

it's sad, really. i am tempted to falsely imprison him in a closet with a laptop until he emails places where he could volunteer in a legal capacity.

[BlueLotus]

Could he salvage the situation by doing a clinic next spring?