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Is biglaw possible for me?

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:01 pm

I have a somewhat interesting career path at this point. I graduated from a school like UT/Vandy/UCLA with pretty good grades. I clerked for a fed dist judge in a flyover district right out of school, practiced insurance defense/municipality law for two years, and am now clerking for a mag judge in another area of the country. I’m a 2015 grad and I’m licensed in a Deep South state where big law does not really exist.

I don’t even know if I want to go into biglaw. I honestly hated private practice. I just need money and don’t know what else to do. I’m looking for additional clerkships, as I like the work, but I’m striking out at the moment.

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Re: Is biglaw possible for me?

Post by objctnyrhnr » Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:29 am

Anonymous User wrote:I have a somewhat interesting career path at this point. I graduated from a school like UT/Vandy/UCLA with pretty good grades. I clerked for a fed dist judge in a flyover district right out of school, practiced insurance defense/municipality law for two years, and am now clerking for a mag judge in another area of the country. I’m a 2015 grad and I’m licensed in a Deep South state where big law does not really exist.

I don’t even know if I want to go into biglaw. I honestly hated private practice. I just need money and don’t know what else to do. I’m looking for additional clerkships, as I like the work, but I’m striking out at the moment.
I feel like you are asking two different questions here:

Could you do biglaw?—if you’re geographically flexible and the market is decent, then probably if you apply broadly and use recruiters.

Should you do biglaw?—maybe not

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Re: Is biglaw possible for me?

Post by Wild Card » Sat Jul 13, 2019 2:09 am

My firm would probably give you just two years of credit and have you start as a third-year.

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