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Just something I'm curious about...

Feel free to comment on what you did and what you thought/felt about the experience as a 1L - good or bad.

mx23250 wrote:Just something I'm curious about...

+1

bump

Externed for state appellate judge. Great experience. Only bad part was no pay, and lots of parking and dry cleaning fees to pay for.

Ohiobumpkin wrote:Externed for state appellate judge. Great experience. Only bad part was no pay, and lots of parking and dry cleaning fees to pay for.

I can relate there. I'm an 0L beginning this fall and I got a very relevant legal externship at a government agency this summer. Unfortunately it's unpaid and going to be very expensive living/community in DC.

Other: Navy JAG internship.

mx23250 wrote:

Ohiobumpkin wrote:Externed for state appellate judge. Great experience. Only bad part was no pay, and lots of parking and dry cleaning fees to pay for.

I can relate there. I'm an 0L beginning this fall and I got a very relevant legal externship at a government agency this summer. Unfortunately it's unpaid and going to be very expensive living/community in DC.

How did you guys get money to live? Loans via credit with your school? Family support? Faustian bargains?

Why is clerk/intern with a politician an option but not public interest/non-profit? Those are much more prevalent than working for politicians...

Anyway, I was a law clerk at Legal Aid.

Pleasye wrote:Why is clerk/intern with a politician an option but not public interest/non-profit? Those are much more prevalent than working for politicians...

Anyway, I was a law clerk at Legal Aid.

My bad. Just chose some various examples and after the fact I realized I missed some important ones like PI, which clearly don't fit in with the examples I chose.

Cicero76 wrote:

mx23250 wrote:

Ohiobumpkin wrote:Externed for state appellate judge. Great experience. Only bad part was no pay, and lots of parking and dry cleaning fees to pay for.

I can relate there. I'm an 0L beginning this fall and I got a very relevant legal externship at a government agency this summer. Unfortunately it's unpaid and going to be very expensive living/community in DC.

How did you guys get money to live? Loans via credit with your school? Family support? Faustian bargains?

I've got some $$ saved up that I'll be using.

Cicero76 wrote:How did you guys get money to live? Loans via credit with your school? Family support? Faustian bargains?

Working for govt both summers
1L summer: took remote summer practicum class for credit, took out COL loan (summer credits are free at NU)
2L summer: public interest funding grant through school.

Cicero76 wrote:How did you guys get money to live? Loans via credit with your school? Family support? Faustian bargains?

1L Summer: unpaid fed internship - took summer school to be able to take out COA loans

assuming the first option means SA at a big firm...

...I don't know why you didn't put working at a small law firm as a choice.

I got paid at a small firm during 1L summer. So "other legal job"

Pleasye wrote:Why is clerk/intern with a politician an option but not public interest/non-profit? Those are much more prevalent than working for politicians...

Anyway, I was a law clerk at Legal Aid.

+1. I too interned at Legal Aid (immigration). Excellent experience overall--great colleagues, meaningful substantive work, lots of client contact. I was not paid by my employer, but received two outside stipends.

Nova wrote:assuming the first option means SA at a big firm...

...I don't know why you didn't put working at a small law firm as a choice.

I got paid at a small firm during 1L summer. So "other legal job"

Im pretty sure category that meant any firm; the number wouldn't be so disproportionately high if it was large firm 1L SAs.

jbagelboy wrote:

Nova wrote:assuming the first option means SA at a big firm...

...I don't know why you didn't put working at a small law firm as a choice.

I got paid at a small firm during 1L summer. So "other legal job"

Im pretty sure category that meant any firm; the number wouldn't be so disproportionately high if it was large firm 1L SAs.

fair enough. its just that pretty much no small firms call them SAs & most of my classmates who work at small firms don't just summer there.

Cicero76 wrote:

mx23250 wrote:

Ohiobumpkin wrote:Externed for state appellate judge. Great experience. Only bad part was no pay, and lots of parking and dry cleaning fees to pay for.

I can relate there. I'm an 0L beginning this fall and I got a very relevant legal externship at a government agency this summer. Unfortunately it's unpaid and going to be very expensive living/community in DC.

How did you guys get money to live? Loans via credit with your school? Family support? Faustian bargains?

I know UofC pays a stipend for any unpaid legal work other than judicial externships. I assumed this was the norm at t14 at least.

jbagelboy wrote:Im pretty sure category that meant any firm; the number wouldn't be so disproportionately high if it was large firm 1L SAs.

Can't know for sure. People with good outcomes (e.g. 1L SAs) are more likely to respond to the question. Also: everybody lies.

bk1 wrote:

jbagelboy wrote:Im pretty sure category that meant any firm; the number wouldn't be so disproportionately high if it was large firm 1L SAs.

Can't know for sure. People with good outcomes (e.g. 1L SAs) are more likely to respond to the question. Also: everybody lies.

only 1% didn't have a legal job or work at all guys!!

Yeah I wouldn't put much faith in one of these anonymous polls being probative of anything really but I knew lots of people at regional schools that worked in solo offices. Maybe they're referring to those as "SAs at Law Firms." Pretty much everyone I knew at my school did a fed judicial internship or fed gov't internship. I think they thought it was "prestigious" or something stupid.

Externed for a federal district court judge; it was an awesome experience.

I budgeted each semester's COL loans to stretch over 6 months instead of 4. As a student (who wasn't taking summer classes), I only had to pay $13 for a summer bus pass, but I walked nearly every day. I brought my lunch most days. It's not particularly difficult to live on a budget in the midwest (unless you're in Chicago).

SA at a law firm

Whenever I see the word “intern” I think it no $.... is that the case here?

Internship for credit + night classes = graduated a semester early.