Advice on Selling My Experience to Switch Firms
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:04 pm
Rising 3L at a T60 with top 20% grades, including straight As in transactional courses (Ks, corp., trade secrets, TM pros., VC/startup) with book awards in 2, but Bs in lit classes. I've worked at a midlaw firm since 1L summer, specializing in VC/startup. Just talked to them about a permanent offer and got "keep working for us during the school year and we'll see." Thought this may happen since we just hired a new associate in a small practice, but figured that since work product was top notch, I'd get offered. Now I feel like I need to find a new job since there are no guarantees where I am.
Feel like I have grades (to an extent) going for me, as well as experience. The big perk of my current position is that I've gotten a ton of experience - I've drafted deal docs to invert foreign companies into DE, done equity/debt and bridge financings, set up and overseen equity compensation plans, drafted standard SaaS commercial Ks (think reseller agreements, eulas, etc.), and drafted M&A docs on both buy and sell-side.
In short, I feel like experience sets me apart, but I'm worried firms won't take a look at me because I'm on the wrong side of the Top 20% cutoff at a not-so-great school. Additionally, massmailing is a foreign concept to me because I chose to stay with my firm after 1L summer, and thus didn't really do the 2L OCI/massmail thing. Any advice on how to get firms to take a look at me/who I should be talking to/what to emphasize about myself is much appreciated.
Feel like I have grades (to an extent) going for me, as well as experience. The big perk of my current position is that I've gotten a ton of experience - I've drafted deal docs to invert foreign companies into DE, done equity/debt and bridge financings, set up and overseen equity compensation plans, drafted standard SaaS commercial Ks (think reseller agreements, eulas, etc.), and drafted M&A docs on both buy and sell-side.
In short, I feel like experience sets me apart, but I'm worried firms won't take a look at me because I'm on the wrong side of the Top 20% cutoff at a not-so-great school. Additionally, massmailing is a foreign concept to me because I chose to stay with my firm after 1L summer, and thus didn't really do the 2L OCI/massmail thing. Any advice on how to get firms to take a look at me/who I should be talking to/what to emphasize about myself is much appreciated.