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BarbellDreams

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What looks better on a resume?

Post by BarbellDreams » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:35 pm

During 2L:

1.) Doing a Clinic.

2.) Law Review.

3.) Finding part time unpaid internship with a firm.

4.) Clerking.

Please rank and if possible provide some insight as to how employers generally view each of these three categories. I am currently thinking about what I should focus on during 2L.

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MF248

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Re: What looks better on a resume?

Post by MF248 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:37 pm

As a completely uneducated 0L I'd say

1) Law Review
2) Clerkship
3) Clinic
4) Unpaid internship

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Re: What looks better on a resume?

Post by Mattalones » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:39 pm

I would say small print, written in blood that sells your soul to the company would look the best :lol:
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Re: What looks better on a resume?

Post by mikeytwoshoes » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:50 pm

ITT 0Ls give career advice.

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Re: What looks better on a resume?

Post by steve_nash » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:56 pm

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Re: What looks better on a resume?

Post by buslaw4302 » Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:02 am

Definitely Law Review >>> anything else, but certain clinics may be a big plus for certain career paths (appellate, for instance... I'd image a judge who you've argued before may be more inclined to take you as a clerk or recommend you to fellow judges assuming you argued/wrote well)

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