2010 Paid SAs for 1Ls Forum

[vexion]

So, did any 1L TLSers land a paid SA at a firm this summer?

[Anonymous User]

I'll be working at IP firm...BS/MS in EE + work experience

[mochafury]

Salary range for us curious 0Ls?

[Anonymous User]

NLJ250 firm in a smaller market. Not IP. $2K/week, which is market rate for the area.

Edit: T10, non-URM.

Edit #2: emailed about 15 firms in the same city. Most weren't hiring 1L's. Got 2 interviews over break. Got an offer from one before grades came out, accepted and withdrew from consideration for the other one. Oddly enough I had a connection to the one I withdrew from, but not the one that actually made me an offer.

Edit #3: there'll be at least 3 other 1L SA's at the office I'm working at. All are from T10 or higher schools.

[Anonymous User]

V50 $3,076/week. Didn't take it though. Damn my newly found interest in public service.

Edit: Non-URM. ~3.9 GPA at CCN. Interviewed for 10 firm jobs, only got one offer (through connections). The rest went to URM's. Come to think of it, the spot I turned down also went to a URM.

[hubtubrub]

V50 $3,076/week. Didn't take it though. Damn my newly found interest in public service.

how did you get the v50 job? tips?

[expat]

Thanks to everyone who is sharing. Any chance we could get school (or at least range) with these? Also, URM status?

[Renzo]

Thanks to everyone who is sharing. Any chance we could get school (or at least range) with these? Also, URM status?

This is crucial, based on my anecdotal experience of where my T6 classmates ended up.

[Rand M.]

Thanks to everyone who is sharing. Any chance we could get school (or at least range) with these? Also, URM status?

This is crucial, based on my anecdotal experience of where my T6 classmates ended up.

I wonder if you can speak about that. Does it seem to make more or less difference the higher you go? I mean, is the difference in outcomes more or less pronounced as you move from T3-T6-T14?

[romothesavior]

Would also be nice to hear how you got the job. I'd like to distinguish between the crowd who called their dad's college best friend who is a partner in the firm, and the people who got them based on grades/mailing/networking on their own.

[phoenix323]

Would also be nice to hear how you got the job. I'd like to distinguish between the crowd who called their dad's college best friend who is a partner in the firm, and the people who got them based on grades/mailing/networking on their own.

This.

[Renzo]

V50 $3,076/week. Didn't take it though. Damn my newly found interest in public service.

Edit: Non-URM. ~3.9 GPA at CCN. Interviewed for 10 firm jobs, only got one offer (through connections). The rest went to URM's. Come to think of it, the spot I turned down also went to a URM.

I think the edited post pretty much sums it up.

[romothesavior]

I do know a non-urm girl who got a big firm gig from UIUC. No idea how she got it.

[Anonymous User]

Non-urm, market salary / major legal market, used connections, pristine grades, T14 law school, unfathomable number of dings first including places I had stronger connections. Job market sucks.

[Anonymous User]

V50 $3,076/week. Didn't take it though. Damn my newly found interest in public service.

Edit: Non-URM. ~3.9 GPA at CCN. Interviewed for 10 firm jobs, only got one offer (through connections). The rest went to URM's. Come to think of it, the spot I turned down also went to a URM.

I think the edited post pretty much sums it up.

Self-correction (I'm the V50 poster): Word is, Wachtell actually hired 1 URM and 1 Asian at my CCN.

[Anonymous User]

Non-URM, MVP, top 5%. Got 5 firm offers, accepted one at 2k/week, mkt. rate. One offer through connections (the one I accepted), 3 through on campus interviewing and one through a random resume drop. Got a stack of rejections though (all major markets- NY, DC, Chicago, etc...)

[Anonymous User]

non-URM T10 median. ~$20/hr job half-time. connections

[Anonymous User]

I know a non-URM at my CCN who got a gig with a market-paying boutique. He's probably #1 in the 1L class though.

[Anonymous User]

Texas must be doing better.....Off the top of my head I know 5 kids in my section alone with market gigs... all non URM.

[Anonymous User]

Texas must be doing better.....Off the top of my head I know 5 kids in my section alone with market gigs... all non URM.

I actually know at least 4 non-URMs in my section at a T10 with 1L market rate firm jobs. But each has a fairly unique story: ties to a (secondary) geographic area and/or legal connections, generally coupled with good grades.

A lot depends on firm practice regarding 1Ls. The bigger the firm, the less likely they ever were to take (many) 1Ls over the summer, much less ITE. Secondary markets thus consistently fared better, so it doesn't surprise me that Texas had a lot of slots for 1Ls relative to say DC or NYC.

[Renzo]

Texas must be doing better.....Off the top of my head I know 5 kids in my section alone with market gigs... all non URM.

Are URMs allowed to go to law school in Texas?

[matrix637]

Texas must be doing better.....Off the top of my head I know 5 kids in my section alone with market gigs... all non URM.

Are URMs allowed to go to law school in Texas?

have you been to Austin?

[Renzo]

Texas must be doing better.....Off the top of my head I know 5 kids in my section alone with market gigs... all non URM.

Are URMs allowed to go to law school in Texas?

have you been to Austin?

Yeah. Are stinky hippies URMs?

[Anonymous User]

Lower T14, top 20%, EE, non-URM.

V50 firm, market rate.

[Renzo]

Lower T14, top 20%, EE, non-URM.

V50 firm, market rate.

You work the IP angle?