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acdisagod
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Any benefit for 1L hiring?
It's my understanding that there is a decent amount of 1L hiring before grades even come out. Given that, would working for law firm this summer as a 0L give me any advantage in applying for a summer 1L job?
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gglr24
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Re: Any benefit for 1L hiring?
Not unless it is a small firm.
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Renzo
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Re: Any benefit for 1L hiring?
Fixt.gglr24 wrote:Not unless it is a small firm that you would like to go back to for your 1L summer.
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Kohinoor
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Re: Any benefit for 1L hiring?
ANY advantage? Yes. A significant advantage? No.acdisagod wrote:It's my understanding that there is a decent amount of 1L hiring before grades even come out. Given that, would working for law firm this summer as a 0L give me any advantage in applying for a summer 1L job?
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acdisagod
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Re: Any benefit for 1L hiring?
Would it be better then to take a non legal job and make a few thousand this summer or the unpaid legal job? Money isn't a huge issue so I'm leaning toward unpaid legal.
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Lawl Shcool
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Re: Any benefit for 1L hiring?
I would take the unpaid legal if money isn't an issue. The more you can get on your resume under Legal Experience the better.
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270910
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Re: Any benefit for 1L hiring?
neither will help you at all compared to a tiny fraction of a GPA point increase. do it if you want to (and I can see why you would), don't expect a resume bump.
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Anonymous User
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Re: Any benefit for 1L hiring?
I have a crappy GPA from last semester a high T14 and every employer I've interviewed with (non-firm, but some in-house) has liked that I had legal experience, especially some work I did at a small firm. It doesn't make up for my GPA completely in terms of getting offers, but it's been made clear to me that I got interviews that I wouldn't have otherwise because of it.
