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The offices in the small towns certainly are, but I'm based in one of the metro areas where they're more specialized. I'm not super picky though, so at least at first I'm kind of hoping they throw a bit of everything at me.

I'm not really sure if we have any active posters in that type of legal aid. What kind of work will you be doing? Mostly housing work, which is what I've done through law school, but definitely want to help with the tax clinic where I can. We'll see--managing attorney said that people can rotate ar...

hello! Noticed we didn't have a thread for us legal aid folks. I'll be starting this fall with a legal aid firm in the lower midwest/south-central--any other legal aid folks around here? Mostly I just wanted to start the community here, but also open to hearing if anyone had ideas about how to impro...

i don't know if 20K is small potatoes. maybe for some people it's insignificant, but not to me - the premise of the question is that the money *is* valuable, and i need to balance saving it over perhaps having a better shot at DC BL Oh yeah, I wasn't saying it's small potatoes--I was just saying th...

how about duke for fedgov/dc biglaw? i'm trying to wrangle a bigger scholarship. would 85-90K in debt (about 20K less than UVA) make Duke worth it? Or is there a meaningful difference in job outcomes between the two schools? GPA cutoffs for DC firms at Duke's OCI were fairly high-ish, at least comp...

Just throwing this out here--impressed by the personal email response we got confirming the application was received. Anyone else applying?

Also I missed the boat on the one BA section that worked with my schedule, so taking Principles of Commercial and Bankruptcy Law instead which looks pretty interesting and relevant for corporate practice, but has class on Thursday evenings... You're one of the two people currently registered for th...

My career counselor said that bidlists were due this week or the day after grades come out—implying there’s a possibility they will not come out this week.

Done.

What a year. I've never done anything that's quite like 1L.

I strongly identify with a lot of what you said. A couple things that came to mind: 1. The law is fundamentally a service profession. That's why lawyers are so tied to the billable hour. That's not to say that there aren't attorneys who work in different ways, but that you've gotta get your start at...

I don't really have anything to add, but just wanted to say that reading this thread after listening to the audiobook of Chaos Monkeys was cool. Kudos for y'all's success.

I am from a rural-ish state and have no real connections to any good-sized markets. My preferred locations for after graduation are Texas/Chicago/DC/Secondary Market>NYC>LA/SF/SV, but there is nowhere that I am completely against ending up in. The comparative lack of interest in CA would be determi...

Random thoughts: Re:lay prestige and desire to go into politics. If recent electoral trends are any indicator, these things are negatively correlated. Chicago’s still elite but doesn’t have the elitist stamp. Re: long term goals—political success is somewhat about having a network. Harvard certainly...

Are you saying that you think going to NYU gives me less of a chance to clerk than say Duke or UVA? I often assume a lot of that stuff is self selection, but I could be wrong. I would also assume that. I suspect the combination of PI focus + folks doing transactional biglaw + wanting to pay down ma...

That impression you got of WUSTL was very very different from that I got as far as the PI culture there goes, curious what others think about that. (And again, thanks to everyone for their input). My input is just based off of ASW and talking to current/admitted students last year and is therefore ...

I'd agree with the others that you don't have a bad option. ftr, I know a fair number of people here who are environmental-law focused. I'd definitely reach out to one of these folks: https://sites.duke.edu/elsdukelaw/ I know almost all of the 1L reps if you want an introduction. We also rank pretty...

Stranger wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:23 am

Which of the two you list at 25 do you want to score?

Are ties at 25 not considered/allowed?

EDIT; I guess that makes sense. Dropping GW.

1. Yale 2. Stanford 3. Harvard 4. Chicago 5. Columbia 6. NYU 7. Penn 8. Michigan 9. UVA 9. Berkeley 11. Duke 12. Northwestern 13. Cornell 14. Georgetown 15. Texas 15. UCLA 17. Vanderbilt 18. WUSTL 19. USC 20. Minnesota 21. Emory 21. BU 23. ND 24. Irvine 25. W & L I'm gonna have to ask for a clarifi...

1. Yale
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Chicago
5. Columbia
6. NYU
7. Penn
8. Michigan
9. UVA
9. Berkeley
11. Duke
12. Northwestern
13. Cornell
14. Georgetown
15. Texas
15. UCLA
17. Vanderbilt
18. WUSTL
19. USC
20. Minnesota
21. Emory
21. Boston
22. ND
23. Irvine
24. W & L
25. GW

How much of your experience at your firm do you think you needed before you could do what you do now? Like, did you have all the contacts/knowledge/skill that you needed after your fourth/fifth/sixth years?

Congrats; sounds like you're in a good place now.

necho2 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:27 am

UChicago's stipend is 5k and it's not competitive, the application process is just to make sure you qualify for it (https://www.law.uchicago.edu/students/f ... mmer/apply)

Ah, thanks for the correction.

I'm not going to say anything you don't already know, but W&M is a great place to be relative to JAG/military ties. Not many Navy bases near Boulder. I'd second Stranger's comment that the COA difference is negligible. But I'd say $6000 for textbooks is way too high. If you shop around it's not hard...

Current student at Duke, maybe probably possibly on the PI track. Happy to answer any questions--congrats on your acceptances! One thing that I didn't really think about when making my decision was guaranteed summer funding for public interest work. Duke gives up to $4000 for only 20 hours of volunt...

sweettorts wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:25 pm

post-grades

That sounds like a nice place to be.

LawSSS2 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:50 pm

found a pretty bad typo in my cover letter that went out to a whole slew of places..

Same but with my writing sample.

Maybe if I missed it the first 5 times I read it the employer did too?