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When you landed your first legal job, did you change your cell phone # to the city in which you were hired? For example, I can imagine fresh biglaw lawyers starting out in NYC, Chicago, or LA might want to get a local number for those cities? Or does it not matter anymore?

Why would this matter?

Cogburn87 wrote:Why would this matter?

Not in big city law, but in smaller communities you may want to get a phone mumber that matches the general area codes surrounding so you don't seem like a foreigner

How's your application cycle going OP

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Anonymous User wrote: Not in big city law, but in smaller communities you may want to get a phone mumber that matches the general area codes surrounding so you don't seem like a foreigner

He said biglaw in a major metro area. Not family law in Minot, ND. You also have a work number you can give instead (not clear who you would be giving your number to anyway because you'll likely never interact directly with a client as a junior associate)

In sum, this is a profoundly neurotic question. No one could possibly give a shit.

Dont you guys get work cells from like your employer and shit

If anyone would care or if it ever matters, it doesn't seem to bother me or anyone I work with or for.

I have two cell phones. An employer provided work phone and my personal phone. Neither phone number is the area code for the area code I currently reside in.

This has caused me 0 problems and 0 people have ever commented on it. Actually, I take that back, a few people have commented on the fact that recreational marijuana was recently legalized in the one area code but that's it.

Clemenceau wrote:How's your application cycle going OP

Splitters aren't allowed to change their cell numbers

Moved to correct forum.

And OP, no, it doesn't matter. My cell number is from 3 cities ago. No one at work or calling me for work ever sees it. And if you do biglaw you'll get given a work phone.