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Importance of LR for T6 candidates

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:13 am

So I recently missed a competition to write-on law review. Didn't want to do it, and then finally got into doing some of it, and then it was too late to do anything about it. :?

However, a LOT of people were telling me not to do it. I have a position on another journal and I'm told it basically only matters if you want to clerk. Which I definitely don't.

I'm told if you're at a T6 grades matter most, then work experience, then activities (of which LR is foremost, but not by much)

Opinions?

I write this because I was so sure I didn't want to do it, but now I'm like "WTF??? why not!??" That said, I will be happy to have that extra time to do stuff which truly interests me, whether legal or not.
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Re: Importance of LR for T6 candidates

Post by fatduck » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:17 am

is there a question? there's nothing you can do about it now.
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Re: Importance of LR for T6 candidates

Post by NZA » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:18 am

fatduck wrote:is there a question? there's nothing you can do about it now.
I'm kinda curious to see people's responses...
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Re: Importance of LR for T6 candidates

Post by fatduck » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:23 am

NZA wrote:
fatduck wrote:is there a question? there's nothing you can do about it now.
I'm kinda curious to see people's responses...
well there's always http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 3&t=147849
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Re: Importance of LR for T6 candidates

Post by NZA » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:53 am

fatduck wrote:
NZA wrote:
fatduck wrote:is there a question? there's nothing you can do about it now.
I'm kinda curious to see people's responses...
well there's always http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 3&t=147849
Law review membership doesn’t appear to buy much during OCI. This result surprised me enough that I ran another halfdozen regressions (including regressions incorporating various interaction terms and proxies for firm selectivity/prestige), but I was unable to find a statistically significant effect in any regression.
Yeah...huh. Well, color me surprised? I guess.
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