NYC Trial Boutiques Forum

[Anonymous User]

Coming out of clerkship eventually and aiming to apply to boutiques in nyc that can give me the most trial / appeals experience (focusing more on trial since appeals work in nyc is more limited).

Some firms I'm looking at:

Hecker Fink (seems like amazing for crim work but unclear how many trials they do per year, or if its mostly investigations. Their civil rights appeals work seems top notch though and the Do Kwon trial will be big).\

Susman Godfrey (a stretch for me but an obvious top trial experience contender)

Mololamken (seems like associates get lots of trial/appeals experience but it's unclear to me exactly what the caseload consists of. . . seems like bankruptcy and now-nearly done 2008 securities lit?)

Elsberg (this is a very interesting one. They've gotten great reports so far and have won lots of Delaware cases. I love corporate law but I'm slightly nervous they're too focused on that).

Emery Celli (This might be a really interesting mix of trial experience, both criminal and civil rights related)

So basic questions are---do these descriptions seem right? Is there any more info you'd or clarify? And for a firm like Elsberg that seems focused on chancery work, would doing that silo you career-wise such that it'd be tricky to move into White-Collar/Crim trial spaces down the line?

Just curious! My aim is to try to get as much trial experience as possible while foregoing the AUSA route.