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[Anonymous User]

I am in my second federal clerkship (first was art. I, this one is art. III). I also have an LLM in tax and was a CPA prior to law school. I don't know whether to focus on general litigation when applying to firms or transactional/corporate.

I don't have a preference one way or the other. Got the LLM because I didn't have a job at graduation. Then lucked into a clerkship. The clerkships give me some general lit experience and are definitely more beneficial for that, however, my prior work experience and LLM scream transactional or corporate.

Advice is greatly appreciated.

[traehekat]

I would think you would get a bigger bump from the clerkships with litigation than you would from your prior experience and LLM with corporate/transactional.

[Anonymous User]

I am in my second federal clerkship (first was art. I, this one is art. III). I also have an LLM in tax and was a CPA prior to law school. I don't know whether to focus on general litigation when applying to firms or transactional/corporate.

I don't have a preference one way or the other. Got the LLM because I didn't have a job at graduation. Then lucked into a clerkship. The clerkships give me some general lit experience and are definitely more beneficial for that, however, my prior work experience and LLM scream transactional or corporate.

Advice is greatly appreciated.

Focus on both. I did that for a large majority of firms and I had about 30 interviews. Most students change their interests anyways so these are not set in stone...

"I am most drawn to your practice in the areas of corporate transactional and litigation work."

Obviously, make sure a firm spepcializes in both of these areas first. That being said, there are a very small number firms that don't focus on both (Quinn- Litigation only). You should be fine for the most part.

[rad lulz]

Umm tax?