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Contacting an old professor who owns a law firm
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:15 pm
by mzing12
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Re: Contacting an old professor who owns a law firm
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:05 pm
by jkay
If you don't ask, the answer will always be "no."
Re: Contacting an old professor who owns a law firm
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:44 pm
by patrickd139
Impossible to gauge the correct answer without knowing the entire circumstances surrounding your position, but I will say this: if I'm an unemployed 3L, I'll be pulling every string and phoning in every connection I have to get a job. This appears to be a connection.
ETA: Also, what CW said in the post immediately following this one.
Re: Contacting an old professor who owns a law firm
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:46 pm
by CanadianWolf
Be professional if you want to represent his law firm.
Re: Contacting an old professor who owns a law firm
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:46 pm
by MrPapagiorgio
jkay wrote:If you don't ask, the answer will always be "no."
This is true for everything in life.
patrickd139 wrote:If I'm an unemployed 3L, I'll be pulling every string and phoning in every connection I have to get a job.
So damn credited.
Best case scenario: he offers you a position. Worst case scenario: he declines and you are back in the same spot you are in now. Seems like a no-brainer.
Re: Contacting an old professor who owns a law firm
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:58 pm
by mzing12
Well, of course I'm emailing, more looking for communication strategies (bragging of accomplishments, not so, etc.). I'll just wing it.
Thanks again.