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Edit: finished choosing.

1) Do you want to live in the suburbs/more upstate or in new york city?

2) Are you interested in general litigation or a more specific practice area? Keeping in mind that Boies office won't have as wide a range of practice as an NY V5. Are you okay with heavy securities or white collar practice, do you have a preference here?

3) Do you like finding your own work and are you comfortable pursuing business development for compensation, or would you prefer a lock-step model with an assignment structure or rotations? There's a different personality type appeal here.

4) How important is starting comp to you?

If I was die-hard lit and comfortable living/working that far away from the city, I'd probably choose Boies. More concretely, since living north of white plains would basically suck for me, my relationship, ect., I'd go to a firm in the city (esp if it was DPW or CSM).

jbagelboy wrote: Keeping in mind that Boies office won't have as wide a range of practice as an NY V5.

This point is not true---BSF (both NYC and Armonk) has a varied practice and associates are on lots of different kinds of cases. On average a BSF associate will do less securities (and certainly less white collar) than a v5 lit associate. Also you don't need to do bizdev to make money, but you can. You can get paid a ton without bringing in business.

The point about work assignment is true; interesting work won't find you generally.

[former BSF (NYC) summer]

agreed with the previous poster
[former boies nyc summer]