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I can only take one of these. Which is more useful in the long term?

Admin. Unless you plan on doing Antitrust as your principal practice at your firm.

J90 wrote:Admin. Unless you plan on doing Antitrust as your principal practice at your firm.

I plan on doing transactional work. Is Antitrust not useful for M&A?

Purplebook wrote:

J90 wrote:Admin. Unless you plan on doing Antitrust as your principal practice at your firm.

I plan on doing transactional work. Is Antitrust not useful for M&A?

Antitrust, then, my bad. I'd assumed you were litigation oriented based on the dilemma you had. Antitrust won't particularly help your practice, but depending on what firm you'd be going to and which practice group it might be tangentially relevant. If you can, though, why not a bankruptcy course, Secured Transactions if you're doing finance work, or something more directly transactional?

The problem with antitrust is the limited option for exit strategy: there are only a few huge companies who would hire antitrust lawyers in-house. The most common way is to work for a big company, i.e., Google or Apple, on antitrust cases for several years, during which one would build relationship with the counterparts in those companies.

For administrative law, I would think that working inside the federal government might give you more leverage in the long run.

Purplebook wrote:I can only take one of these. Which is more useful in the long term?

Why does it matter what you take in law school?

J90 wrote:

Purplebook wrote:

J90 wrote:Admin. Unless you plan on doing Antitrust as your principal practice at your firm.

I plan on doing transactional work. Is Antitrust not useful for M&A?

Antitrust, then, my bad. I'd assumed you were litigation oriented based on the dilemma you had. Antitrust won't particularly help your practice, but depending on what firm you'd be going to and which practice group it might be tangentially relevant. If you can, though, why not a bankruptcy course, Secured Transactions if you're doing finance work, or something more directly transactional?

Thanks. I've taken Secured Transactions and Bankruptcy. I only had the Admin Law dilemma because people who took it kept saying how useful it is.

So I could be fine not taking Antitrust? Its time slot ruins an otherwise sweet schedule.

parkslope wrote:

Purplebook wrote:I can only take one of these. Which is more useful in the long term?

Why does it matter what you take in law school?

For me, it matters what I take in law school because during my SA having a base knowledge of certain principles helped me out big time in a few assignments.