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1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:05 pm
by caligirl8
Hi! I'm curious as to how people make ends meet their 1L summer working as a judicial extern or any position that doesn't come with $ (which is pretty much most of them). Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
Re: 1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:40 pm
by Kratos
caligirl8 wrote:Hi! I'm curious as to how people make ends meet their 1L summer working as a judicial extern or any position that doesn't come with $ (which is pretty much most of them). Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
save loan money during the school year
Re: 1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:53 pm
by KM2016
Kratos wrote:caligirl8 wrote:Hi! I'm curious as to how people make ends meet their 1L summer working as a judicial extern or any position that doesn't come with $ (which is pretty much most of them). Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
save loan money during the school year
TCR; start saving!
Some schools also have programs that will pay you something like $10/hour if you work for a judge, but I believe the heavy majority of schools only have this program for students who work in PI or for the government.
Re: 1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:14 pm
by A. Nony Mouse
Do it as an externship for credit so you can take out additional loans.
(Not saying this is ideal, but it's what a lot of people I knew did.)
Re: 1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:30 pm
by NotMyRealName09
A. Nony Mouse wrote:Do it as an externship for credit so you can take out additional loans.
(Not saying this is ideal, but it's what a lot of people I knew did.)
Yeah this.
Re: 1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:44 pm
by caligirl8
NotMyRealName09 wrote:A. Nony Mouse wrote:Do it as an externship for credit so you can take out additional loans.
(Not saying this is ideal, but it's what a lot of people I knew did.)
Yeah this.
It's possible to extern for credit over the summer? I haven't heard about this before.
Re: 1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:44 pm
by BVest
A. Nony Mouse wrote:Do it as an externship for credit so you can take out additional loans.
(Not saying this is ideal, but it's what a lot of people I knew did.)
Plus 3-4 hours that you don't have to do during 3L.
caligirl8 wrote:
It's possible to extern for credit over the summer? I haven't heard about this before.
Most places. Check your school's summer course schedule.
Re: 1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:58 pm
by ymmv
A. Nony Mouse wrote:Do it as an externship for credit so you can take out additional loans.
(Not saying this is ideal, but it's what a lot of people I knew did.)
Alternatively, use your school's additional laptop loan allocation ($3,000 at mine) if you have not already.
Re: 1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:20 pm
by 2014
Most people I knew did an RA job on the side (remotely if the judge was out of your law school city and the professor was chill)
Re: 1L Summer: How to be a judicial extern & still pay the bills
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:23 pm
by cookiejar1
I did something similar (externship class) and took another summer class for 7 credits/units which is awesome because I can take a lightened workload now.
My school also graded my summer class + externship seminar and so if you're gunning for a clerkship 7 units of a guaranteed A/A+ makes taking out the loans hurt much, much less.