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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.

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

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