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MN Firm review request
I am a 2L choosing between two law firms in my home state of Minnesota: Fredrikson & Byron or Lindquist & Vennum. I figure both are great options, but I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on each firm, especially if you or someone you know has had personal experience with either. Not 200% sure what I'll go into, but I'm leaning towards transactional work.
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Re: MN Firm review request
They are both good firms, but my sense of Fredriksson is that it is marginally healthier and thus may have better stability/longer term prospects than Lindquist.
Like all firms of that size, both have the potential for merging with other firms. Mergers can disrupt things, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. (Faegre merged with Baker & Daniels several years, and I've heard very good things about that. Leonard Street merged with Stinson about a year ago and I've heard pretty negative things from the Leonard Streets folks about that.) Lindquist was looking at merging locally with Oppenheimer, but conflicts derailed that early his year. I've heard that they might be looking at that again to see if those conflicts could be reworked. I'd press both firms for what their growth/merger plans might be.
I assume you have an offer from both firms -- you should definitely reach out to them for follow-up interviews and should ask them the tough questions. Be frank with people at each of the firms that you are deciding between F&B and L&V and ask them why you should choose them over the other one. I bet there are folks at each firm who spent time at the other, and you could ask to be put in touch with someone with that sort of experience. You have nothing to lose by pressing the firms for more information and being very honest. You'll get more reliable info than from the internet.
Like all firms of that size, both have the potential for merging with other firms. Mergers can disrupt things, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. (Faegre merged with Baker & Daniels several years, and I've heard very good things about that. Leonard Street merged with Stinson about a year ago and I've heard pretty negative things from the Leonard Streets folks about that.) Lindquist was looking at merging locally with Oppenheimer, but conflicts derailed that early his year. I've heard that they might be looking at that again to see if those conflicts could be reworked. I'd press both firms for what their growth/merger plans might be.
I assume you have an offer from both firms -- you should definitely reach out to them for follow-up interviews and should ask them the tough questions. Be frank with people at each of the firms that you are deciding between F&B and L&V and ask them why you should choose them over the other one. I bet there are folks at each firm who spent time at the other, and you could ask to be put in touch with someone with that sort of experience. You have nothing to lose by pressing the firms for more information and being very honest. You'll get more reliable info than from the internet.
