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Does anybody have any suggestions for firms that are looking to hire 3Ls? Preferably in the South.

DPW NY always looking for 3L’s to assign directly to the credit/finance group.

Anonymous User wrote:DPW NY always looking for 3L’s to assign directly to the credit/finance group.

What would be the grade cutoff for a position like that? Assuming mid t-14 & summer SA.

Bump.

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Anonymous User wrote:DPW NY always looking for 3L’s to assign directly to the credit/finance group.

What would be the grade cutoff for a position like that? Assuming mid t-14 & summer SA.

You should be fine. Grades matter more if the candidate didnt have an SA/coming from lower ranked school.

Mid T14, GPA bottom 10%, SA at a mid-size firm. Do I have chances?

Anonymous User wrote:Mid T14, GPA bottom 10%, SA at a mid-size firm. Do I have chances?

At bottom 10%, it’ll be tough. Are you going to be/were you in a specialty group?

Sorry, accidental anon.

Anonymous User wrote:Mid T14, GPA bottom 10%, SA at a mid-size firm. Do I have chances?

almost certainly not. Def try, but dont get your hopes up

I think Kirkland and Ellis in Houston is looking to hire some 3Ls now; they seem to be hiring pretty aggressively so might be worth looking into? Best of luck!

Does anyone know Kirkland & Ellis Boston?

What about it? I don’t think they’ll take a bottom 10% t-14 kid.

^^Different anon then the above wondering about K&E Boston. I was asking because I'm interested to see if its hiring 3Ls.

At a mid-t14, around median, URM.

Anonymous User wrote:^^Different anon then the above wondering about K&E Boston. I was asking because I'm interested to see if its hiring 3Ls.

At a mid-t14, around median, URM.

It seems like they’re expanding. If you’re into doing private funds or whatever, I’m sure they’d consider you.

Does anyone have any idea of other movement?

Any NYC firms hiring 3Ls?

Anyone know if they look at 1L grades mainly or overall grades?

Anonymous User wrote:Anyone know if they look at 1L grades mainly or overall grades?

Also interested in this, clerking but not super happy about where I summered. Had a 4.0 first year but graduated with a 3.76 (sick/lazy 2L basically). Mid T14.

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Anonymous User wrote:Anyone know if they look at 1L grades mainly or overall grades?

Also interested in this, clerking but not super happy about where I summered. Had a 4.0 first year but graduated with a 3.76 (sick/lazy 2L basically). Mid T14.

Dude, a 3.76 still puts you well within top quarter at every T14 I know of. Add a 2L SA and clerking on top of that, and I think youre gonna be just fine...

Can we get a running list of firms hiring 3Ls and their locations?

Also when do we start applying?

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Anonymous User wrote:Anyone know if they look at 1L grades mainly or overall grades?

Also interested in this, clerking but not super happy about where I summered. Had a 4.0 first year but graduated with a 3.76 (sick/lazy 2L basically). Mid T14.

If you can't get a job in this big law boom economy, not many people can. Why would they look at just 1L grades if you have other grades? That makes absolutely no sense. I don't get why you guys would even ask that question.

I am 3.1 ish at top 7. I've been in-house at the same large company the past two years. Gpa and lack of SA is going to hurt me a lot. any advice?

Don't mean to be a downer, but it was super hard to get a 3L position when I tried two years ago. The only people from my T13 who pulled it off were kids in the top 25% of the class or URMs. You shouldn't go in expecting much -- it'll be much easier to lateral later on

Timeline/strategy for looking at other firms after SA?

Anonymous User wrote:Timeline/strategy for looking at other firms after SA?

I'm basically having coffee/lunch with all the contacts I have with people from the firms I'm interested to work and inserting during the conversation that although the firm I'm currently SA'ing is a great place, I'm looking for a change next year.

Anonymous User wrote:Don't mean to be a downer, but it was super hard to get a 3L position when I tried two years ago. The only people from my T13 who pulled it off were kids in the top 25% of the class or URMs. You shouldn't go in expecting much -- it'll be much easier to lateral later on

Same experience here. Only people from my T6 last year that managed to get 3L offers either did a 2L SA, had top grades by the end of 2L, or had significant pre-law school connections at the firm they got a 3L offer at.