King & Spalding NY vs. Skadden DE Forum

[Anonymous User]

Interested in transactional work. Skadden has a better reputation especially for corporate work and likely opens up more doors and exit opps. But NYC is a better location. Help! What would you do?

[Anonymous User]

Interested in transactional work. Skadden has a better reputation especially for corporate work and likely opens up more doors and exit opps. But NYC is a better location. Help! What would you do?

Skadden DE generally does a narrow range of work (lit, RX, etc.) so if you want to do more standard corporate work, maybe K&S is a better idea. Skadden NY (and a lot of their other offices too) is a corporate powerhouse as you mention, but their DE office is more of a satellite.

[Hamilton51]

Interested in transactional work. Skadden has a better reputation especially for corporate work and likely opens up more doors and exit opps. But NYC is a better location. Help! What would you do?

Skadden DE generally does a narrow range of work (lit, RX, etc.) so if you want to do more standard corporate work, maybe K&S is a better idea. Skadden NY (and a lot of their other offices too) is a corporate powerhouse as you mention, but their DE office is more of a satellite.

Yeah I didn't know if I could maybe leverage my "in" with Skadden and get to the NY office by splitting the summer or maybe it is easier to lateral there as an associate

[ExpOriental]

Interested in transactional work. Skadden has a better reputation especially for corporate work and likely opens up more doors and exit opps. But NYC is a better location. Help! What would you do?

Skadden DE generally does a narrow range of work (lit, RX, etc.) so if you want to do more standard corporate work, maybe K&S is a better idea. Skadden NY (and a lot of their other offices too) is a corporate powerhouse as you mention, but their DE office is more of a satellite.

Yeah I didn't know if I could maybe leverage my "in" with Skadden and get to the NY office by splitting the summer or maybe it is easier to lateral there as an associate

Just at a guess, you probably could transition to Skadden NY without too much trouble. Have you asked the firm about it? Given the current demand for associates in NY, you should probably just ask Skadden if you can go to NY instead.

All things considered, it's probably harder to get a spot at Skadden Wilmington than it is Skadden NY. It's a much smaller office, and market pay in Wilmington is a pretty incredible value proposition. But obviously you should only go there if you're interested in living in that area and having a DE-centric practice, as mentioned above. I don't know that Skadden does much, if any general corporate practice out of DE.

Bottom line, just ask.

[Anonymous User]

Interested in transactional work. Skadden has a better reputation especially for corporate work and likely opens up more doors and exit opps. But NYC is a better location. Help! What would you do?

Skadden DE generally does a narrow range of work (lit, RX, etc.) so if you want to do more standard corporate work, maybe K&S is a better idea. Skadden NY (and a lot of their other offices too) is a corporate powerhouse as you mention, but their DE office is more of a satellite.

Yeah I didn't know if I could maybe leverage my "in" with Skadden and get to the NY office by splitting the summer or maybe it is easier to lateral there as an associate

Just at a guess, you probably could transition to Skadden NY without too much trouble. Have you asked the firm about it? Given the current demand for associates in NY, you should probably just ask Skadden if you can go to NY instead.

All things considered, it's probably harder to get a spot at Skadden Wilmington than it is Skadden NY. It's a much smaller office, and market pay in Wilmington is a pretty incredible value proposition. But obviously you should only go there if you're interested in living in that area and having a DE-centric practice, as mentioned above. I don't know that Skadden does much, if any general corporate practice out of DE.

Bottom line, just ask.

Most of this post is true. However, it's harder to lateral from a secondary market to NY. Usually it goes the other way.