3L with firm job. thinking of dropping out. Forum

[jarofsoup]

You are in the mist of 3L year and what you are experiencing is a akin to senioritis. I graduated in 2014 and I know the feeling.

I would recommend trying to see if you could spend your final semester interning, or working in a clinic. Doing something other than class.

You will be able to lateral from your firm. Grades are less important in the lateral market. What is most important is that you worked at a big firm in NYC and then you can jump ship after a year.

[forty-two]

So it looks like staying might make sense, but it will be hard to swallow, and its going to be a tough way to be begin my career.

My main concern is that staying in school means I am committing to doing a pivot immediately when I start working, and I have been told that is going to be almost impossible, so in the end all I am doing is kicking the can down the road and getting older only to eventually make the same decision.

But maybe the pivot won't be as impossible as the lawyers I spoke to said. How do I move this thread to the employment area? Hopefully some practicing attorneys there would know more about that.

the majority of the people who have posted responses in this thread are practicing attorneys

+1 a lot of us who replied are practicing attorneys. It looks like you just think we're all wrong for some reason. I honestly can't think of any decent reason to drop out now, especially because you do want to be a lawyer.