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I'm looking at DPW, Skadden, GDC, and PW NY. I'm up in the air as to if I want to do M&A, litigation, or antitrust. Is there a firm or two that'll best to hedge my bets? Does one create substantially better exit options (probably antitrust or M&A) than the others or just offer better training for the 4-5 years I can rely on being their?

why not just go to all 4

Go to all of them unless you have an offer already and then I would probably still go to all 4

I meant full-time, assuming I get offers. My mistake.

You have callbacks at four of the best firms. Go to all of them, unless you have an offer you know you will take.

Do you not have family or friends to brag to?

come back with offers and then have this discussion. no reason to get your mind set on X if you dont know you have X for sure.

Ignoring the humble brag, just go where you like the culture the best.

TheThriller wrote:Do you not have family or friends to brag to?

+1

If you go into CBs with the attitude you'll get an offer, you're going to not get any. Go in like your life depends on it.

TheThriller wrote:Do you not have family or friends to brag to?

Honestly not intending to hurt feelings. I'm legitimately looking for advice because I have no clue which of the 3 things I want to do, so can't really make a solid choice. There was no tactful way to ask generally and still get specific advice.

@toothbrush: I have offers at 2 of them already, but I'd rather not say which.

Of these, I would choose Davis Polk unless it's Gibson LA - then it's a regional tossup. If you're 100% litigation, maybe Paul Weiss edges out, but that's not what you've indicated here.

I agree with the others that it's premature to count on offers at all four, not to mention any. This varies from firm to firm. Davis Polk, for example, will CB a shitload of people and offer less than half of them; Gibson even fewer; if you were going to a SullCrom CB on the other hand, I'd say you could almost always count on the offer.

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TheThriller wrote:Do you not have family or friends to brag to?

Honestly not intending to hurt feelings. I'm legitimately looking for advice because I have no clue which of the 3 things I want to do, so can't really make a solid choice. There was no tactful way to ask generally and still get specific advice.

@toothbrush: I have offers at 2 of them already, but I'd rather not say which.

Your title says "4 CB's". Now you are saying you have offers. If you tell us the offers, we can tell you what we think between them. Otherwise this is getting weird.

jbagelboy wrote:Of these, I would choose Davis Polk unless it's Gibson LA - then it's a regional tossup. If you're 100% litigation, maybe Paul Weiss edges out, but that's not what you've indicated here.

I agree with the others that it's premature to count on offers at all four, not to mention any. This varies from firm to firm. Davis Polk, for example, will CB a shitload of people and offer less than half of them; Gibson even fewer; if you were going to a SullCrom CB on the other hand, I'd say you could almost always count on the offer.

@OP: I disliked you a bit for the humblebrag but now that you are using anon and still being coy about your situation you officially suck.

I'd agree w/ bagel that DPW is probably the best of the 4 all around, though if you want lit maybe PW. Also PW lets you do whatever you want over the summer where I think DPW makes you choose lit v corp. Not sure how the others work, I forget. So think about that - if you are REALLY undecided, go where they are flexible.

OP: Just gonna pm jbagel. Nothing to see here.

Skadden is also a good choice. Great lit group, powerhouse M&A group. Antitrust tends to be sports heavy. You can take SA assignments from whichever groups you want.

pertristis wrote:Skadden is also a good choice. Great lit group, powerhouse M&A group. Antitrust tends to be sports heavy. You can take SA assignments from whichever groups you want.

Right - I would emphasize that you can't really go wrong here. We each may have a personal preference, but that can't full inform your choice.

I'm happy to take PMs about Skadden's SA program, if you need someone to query.

Anonymous User wrote:I'm looking at DPW, Skadden, GDC, and PW NY. I'm up in the air as to if I want to do M&A, litigation, or antitrust. Is there a firm or two that'll best to hedge my bets? Does one create substantially better exit options (probably antitrust or M&A) than the others or just offer better training for the 4-5 years I can rely on being their?

Learn to proof your writing before becoming a Biglaw associate, no matter which firm you choose.