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Can you be a good corporate attorney w/o having an econ or accounting background?

Yeah

Def. Not only are econ, accounting, and finance are distinct disciplines (though clearly with overlaps), the law in and of itself is an independent discipline.

if you have a finance/accounting background, it'll be easier to understand those defined terms like working capital or GAAP, but really they are not that important and you can pick up fairly quick

How are you at Word and keyboard shortcuts tho

OP here: Thanks for the replies! Any classes I should take as a 2L/3L in order to familiarize myself with corporate work? Hoping to do MA/PE work.

DELG wrote:How are you at Word and keyboard shortcuts tho

Crtl + C, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + F, Ctrl + Z, any others I should know?

Anonymous User wrote:OP here: Thanks for the replies! Any classes I should take as a 2L/3L in order to familiarize myself corporate work? Hoping to do MA/PE work.

DELG wrote:How are you at Word and keyboard shortcuts tho

Crtl + C, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + F, Ctrl + Z, any others I should know?

Dig deeper. Ctrl + Option + Shift + V = the secret of life

Desert Fox wrote:Jenkins, get me that regression analysis of soybean prices compared to oil prices, STAT!

. . . .

Just kidding Jenkins, your job is really to make a piece of patter we sign. WE NEED IT STAT

Literally had an assignment this summer to do regression analysis in a way they thought opposing counsel expert witness might just to play devil's advocate (but this was only because they knew I had a background in it... Just saying)

As a business major, it gave me a nice background which really helped/helps in business oriented classes but hurts/not as helpful in writing classes

Desert Fox wrote:

Cobretti wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:Jenkins, get me that regression analysis of soybean prices compared to oil prices, STAT!

. . . .

Just kidding Jenkins, your job is really to make a piece of patter we sign. WE NEED IT STAT

Literally had an assignment this summer to do regression analysis in a way they thought opposing counsel expert witness might just to play devil's advocate (but this was only because they knew I had a background in it... Just saying)

And they make up work for summers. You'll be making sig pages when you get back.

Also no client was actually billed for that work.

Can you use excel without a mouse?

Just use investopedia for anything and everything.

I like the phrasing of your title more than the phrasing of the question in the text of your post. It will probably help somewhat, but nothing major.

Glasseyes wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:OP here: Thanks for the replies! Any classes I should take as a 2L/3L in order to familiarize myself corporate work? Hoping to do MA/PE work.

DELG wrote:How are you at Word and keyboard shortcuts tho

Crtl + C, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + F, Ctrl + Z, any others I should know?

Dig deeper. Ctrl + Option + Shift + V = the secret of life

Shift + F3 might actually be the secret of life

Shift + F7

I like making shortcut keys for special characters. control-shift-s = section symbol

MarkinKansasCity wrote:I like making shortcut keys for special characters. control-shift-s = section symbol

Its already option 6 on macs

Br3v wrote:

MarkinKansasCity wrote:I like making shortcut keys for special characters. control-shift-s = section symbol

Its already option 6 on macs

And alt-21 (numpad) on pc's.

DELG wrote:

Glasseyes wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:OP here: Thanks for the replies! Any classes I should take as a 2L/3L in order to familiarize myself corporate work? Hoping to do MA/PE work.

DELG wrote:How are you at Word and keyboard shortcuts tho

Crtl + C, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + F, Ctrl + Z, any others I should know?

Dig deeper. Ctrl + Option + Shift + V = the secret of life

Shift + F3 might actually be the secret of life

I just looked this up, life changing. I always figured there was a way to do this.

Anonymous User wrote:OP here: Thanks for the replies! Any classes I should take as a 2L/3L in order to familiarize myself with corporate work? Hoping to do MA/PE work.

DELG wrote:How are you at Word and keyboard shortcuts tho

Crtl + C, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + F, Ctrl + Z, any others I should know?

If you have a prof who practiced for more than a hot second in a corporate role somewhere, ask them. We can tell you the usual litany of stuff to take from titles, but the prof probably knows what the actual classes and profs are like. This assumes you don't have a class on charting upstream affiliate clauses from poorly scanned documents and entering them into a diligence chart.

Also, ctrl + A in word and ctrl g (searching on Edgar in chrome)