Big Law at a Regional School? Forum

[jbagelboy]

Currently at GW trying to get big law. Don't come here big law or bust.

Can you elaborate a little on this? I'm interested in GW and was curious how high up do you have to be in the class for BigLaw to be an option for you. Also how many big firms come to oci

Top 15% is generally a lock unless you sweat cheeseburgers. Top 33% can get it. Any lower and you're out. Plenty of firms don't recruit GW at all.

Retake.

GW has a very IP-heavy OCI from what I've heard (like a quarter or more of the firms)

[brazleton]

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[misanthrope]

Currently at GW trying to get big law. Don't come here big law or bust.

Can you elaborate a little on this? I'm interested in GW and was curious how high up do you have to be in the class for BigLaw to be an option for you. Also how many big firms come to oci

Top 15% is generally a lock unless you sweat cheeseburgers. Top 33% can get it. Any lower and you're out. Plenty of firms don't recruit GW at all.

Retake.

GW has a very IP-heavy OCI from what I've heard (like a quarter or more of the firms)

This. Currently at GULC, Summering at a lower V100 firm's DC office (in a IP lit group). I think you can be top third at GW and have a good shot at biglaw ONLY IF you are CS/EE/otherwise ip "secure"; all the GW kids here are Dean's Listers (approx. top 35% at GW) and have CS/EE/Bio PHDs.

Suffice it to say: the GULC, NU and Duke kids are significantly less "impressive" wrt grades.

[sdp001]

I went and looked at all the current associates at Wiley Rein, one large DC law firm, just to get a sense of where they get their lawyers from. Lots of Georgetown and UVa as you'd expect, but probably as many GWU and GMU grads as well. A couple of Harvard grads too, plus probably a dozen or so that are from regional DC/Virginia schools (Catholic, American, Howard, W&L, W&M, Richmond). And as you'd expect, there are lots of summas and magnas and coifs next to those names. Probably less than half a dozen that aren't from any of these, they're mostly what you'd expect - Michigan, Northwestern, Vanderbilt.

So you'd probably have to work your tail off, but GW doesn't look like it's a problem for a DC-area 'biglaw' job.

[FSK]

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