How is the Transactional Law Program?
How is the hiring for private practice?
Do you think the school is underrated?
Are the students generally stressful, or chill?
Looking for a BU student/grad Forum
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rion91
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Re: Looking for a BU student/grad
1L here.Otterguy wrote:How is the Transactional Law Program?
How is the hiring for private practice?
Do you think the school is underrated?
Are the students generally stressful, or chill?
Transactional program is great. It's basically the best outside of the T14, and employers really like to hear about it and also contribute to it. But you don't do anything in the transactional program until your 2L year. I believe it is like this at most schools.
I would say in general it is quite underrated, it packs quite a punch in employment and has a national reach. I also think the same for BC too, but BC is more Boston friendly. The general presumption is that BU gets you more places than BC, but BC has a slight upper hand here. But even then it's slight. All that matters is your grades. Harvard grads scatter like the wind and BU and BC are at the top of the food chain for the New England jobs.
I'm not sure what you mean by private practice, it's quite a broad area. But in general we're a very corporate lit/transactional focused school. It's maybe like 65 private practice, 30 public interest, and 5 other/in house. But I think NALP statistics can speak better to this because this is what I'm just guessing
I would say everyone is super chill, up until finals. And even then we all just want to chill, it's just harder to do so. We had a final yesterday and quite a few 1Ls went to bars around campus just to have a beer and relax.
