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3.49 at Fordham - What firms?

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:52 am

Hey - I could use some help looking at firms. What can I expect with 3.49 at Fordham? This puts me right around top 15%. No significant WE (<1 year as a legal assistant, random jobs through college), Fed Judicial Internship for 1L summer.

Think I can pull a Vault range firm? Are there any non-V20s that have large class sizes?

(Want to stay in NYC. Have ties to FL)

- Oh, and want transactional.

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Re: 3.49 at Fordham - What firms?

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:16 pm

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Re: 3.49 at Fordham - What firms?

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:11 pm

you should be in good shape. bid on 2s, 2+s and if you want, 1s with large class sizes wouldn't be totally inadvisable. This will make sense when that list is distributed (if the sba hasn't done that yet).

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Re: 3.49 at Fordham - What firms?

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:54 pm

If you make law review you're set. Golden. You can definitely pull off a legit vault firm.

If no law review, it'll be a little harder, but still, it's a solid GPA and V60s-V100s will definitely be reachable, if not higher if you are a good interviewer.

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Re: 3.49 at Fordham - What firms?

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:22 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Hey - I could use some help looking at firms. What can I expect with 3.49 at Fordham? This puts me right around top 15%. No significant WE (<1 year as a legal assistant, random jobs through college), Fed Judicial Internship for 1L summer.

Think I can pull a Vault range firm? Are there any non-V20s that have large class sizes?

(Want to stay in NYC. Have ties to FL)

- Oh, and want transactional.
just out of curiosity, how did you come up with the 15% number? does fordham break down their class rank approx more than just 10% then 25% or just approximating?

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Re: 3.49 at Fordham - What firms?

Post by horseradish » Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:29 pm

Unfortunately, 3.5 is the magic number for a lot of firms at fordham. That being said, you have still have a really good shot at a lot of firms. Not sure about class sizes, but should be able to find some info on the firm website.

Check out firms like cadwalader, winston & strawn, o'melveny, white & case, chadbourne & parke...

I know those are all over the vault rankings, but rankings don't necessarily correlate with grade selectivity.

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