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I work in a small boutique firm. Senior partner has accepted a position at big law. He wants to bring me with him. My GPA is low. I worked through law school and didn't worry about my grades. First generation college student. Now I realize, I should have got the higher GPA. I have an offer from BigLaw that will be forth coming contingent on all the normal background checks. How do I get around a bad transcript that is 10 years old. I assume they will get that as part of the process. Do I discuss with my current partner - he doesn't know my GPA since a transcript wasn't required when I got hired in here as a lateral. Should I wait until get transcript and then discuss with them? Should I not even worry about it?

justmeinthed wrote:I work in a small boutique firm. Senior partner has accepted a position at big law. He wants to bring me with him. My GPA is low. I worked through law school and didn't worry about my grades. First generation college student. Now I realize, I should have got the higher GPA. I have an offer from BigLaw that will be forth coming contingent on all the normal background checks. How do I get around a bad transcript that is 10 years old. I assume they will get that as part of the process. Do I discuss with my current partner - he doesn't know my GPA since a transcript wasn't required when I got hired in here as a lateral. Should I wait until get transcript and then discuss with them? Should I not even worry about it?

Transcript won't come up in the background check. You're fine.

These checks are often mandated by malpractice insurance policies, and to protect them from risks - i.e. hiring someone whose potentially dangerous to their coworkers or disbarred. No one's going to argue that the firm was negligent to hire you for bad grades. Even if you have a 0.0 gpa, they could argue you passed the bar and have experience. If there was any any question about this, it would come up and I think your school will probably have to notify you first? No non-lawyer will think to look at your transcript. The main priority is to make sure the firm won't get f'd hiring you.

Background check will be financial and potentially criminal. As far as I know, you can't get a transcript in background check. Anyway, they won't secretly care and secretly try to get your transcript. If it were a problem, they would have asked long ago.

justmeinthed wrote:I work in a small boutique firm. Senior partner has accepted a position at big law. He wants to bring me with him....Should I not even worry about it?

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