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Boston, D.C., Chicago This preference washes out most of the marginal benefit of Penn, which punches above its weight in New York (and, I assume, is great for Philly or maybe western PA) but otherwise is "just" another T14. If you'd truly prefer D.C., I think you should take a hard look at UVA, bec...

Sorry, phrased that poorly. Why did they show a huge year-to-year gain? I was confused because they usually have a very high total in general - what lowered their totals in 2019? My guess is the pandemic pushing people out of in-house or PI stuff into the safe firm jobs they already had Gotcha. But...

DankHill wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:27 pm

Sorry, phrased that poorly. Why did they show a huge year-to-year gain? I was confused because they usually have a very high total in general - what lowered their totals in 2019?

My guess is the pandemic pushing people out of in-house or PI stuff into the safe firm jobs they already had

LSAC used to publish these data but they're hard to find now. Had min/mean/max GPA and LSAT as well as the population of people from an undergrad applying to LS

64Fl wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:11 pm

true southerners [...] Florida

lol

otherwise great post

It's relevant for poetry because (without getting into an debate about aesthetics) the sounds of the words are directly relevant to the quality of the work: He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. I wouldn't ...

Do you think you or your colleagues picked up bad habits (such as taking shortcuts) handling so many cases at any given time? You might get better answers if you clarify what you mean by "shortcuts". Do you mean relying on form/precedent documents? Doing less-thorough research? Making more plea bar...

re the comment about analyzing poetry, do you think subvocalizing then makes you better comprehend it or why do you do it consciously for poetry as opposed to rc passages? It's relevant for poetry because (without getting into an debate about aesthetics) the sounds of the words are directly relevan...

It’s less the hours and more the constantly being on call (except for busy months when it’s both). It’s tough to say more than that with any precision. This. Working 8AM-6PM, Monday through Saturday, would be 60 hours but much, much more manageable than a biglaw job where you average 60 hours a week.

I noticed younger partners at Simpson and track to partnership seemed to be 10 years. Is this a recent trend that may have something to do with a modified lockstep compensation? ~10 years is within the normal range for biglaw nowadays as it's become harder to make (equity) partner. What "trend" exa...

Not sure you need an addendum to explain the GPA situation. LSAC doesn't count post-bacc credits per policy and I don't see the benefit in drawing attention to the weakest part of your transcript when there's nothing to explain. You need to report the graduate work most likely. Have you tried simply...

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Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:41 pm

Jubo wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:51 pm

it almost certainly is some lawcrossing bs

Law crossing did have an article about it. So I take it that site is not often reliable?

Lawcrossing is basically just marketing copy. Worse than useless.

I mean I know full professors who’ve been teaching for 20 years who make less than $120k. (Obviously not coding but just for context.) I guess my perception of the compensation for new SWEs or similar is skewed. Public perception is skewed by the high end (FAANG salaries, people who played the equi...

UVA2B wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:23 am

Never for NYC transactional work.

Agreed. NYC transactional biglaw is the reason why it's coherent to talk about the "T13" grouping in the first place. They're all great for it.

I was curious so I went and looked for some actual numbers on this: https://www.chambers-associate.com/career-moves/gcs-of-the-sp-500-companies-trends-analysis (S&P500, which are a different but similar group of companies, probably a better dataset for what OP is after IMO) https://www.lawdepartment...

Whichever t13 gives you a full ride. NY transactional biglaw isn't the sort of unicorn job where it's worth the extra expense (debt) for fairly similar outcomes in terms of odds of getting the job. I mean, if it's all debt free, sure, pick based on location/profs/class size/preftige. Yeah if NYC bi...

i've never heard of a hard GPA floor for any school, especially re: URM. And even if there were, it wouldn't be set at 3.0; meaning a 2.9 isn't prohibitive. Berkeley is the exception here since they have to follow rules imposed by their parent university: [...] The Berkeley Graduate Division requir...

Agree with the above. I would push hard to finish with a 3.0 or better because that is a meaningful break-point for some schools. Ask for fee waivers. I would not bother with non-T14s unless you want to ride the WashU money train or have a specific region in mind (e.g. USC/UCLA for Southern Californ...

LSAC finally released score data for 2020 (link opens PDF; see page 4):

https://report.lsac.org/VolumeSummaryOr ... Format=PDF

Re: going from [major market] > [secondary hometown market] > [back to major market], the person I mentioned upthread did the same thing. It's certainly not unheard-of. But you will need to somehow convince people that you intend to stay in NYC for the foreseeable future or bringing you on is more t...

Your softs are decent. The only thing holding you back from $$$ at a top school is that LSAT score, which is really on the cusp.

TL;DR the LSAT-Flex has a wider bell curve which is throwing off the score percentiles in the 165+ and especially 170+ range

I have no idea how, or why, they did this, but I've just this year seen someone leave and then come back ~4-6 months later. Certainly not impossible, and the person in question seems to be doing just fine now.

I am generally anti-thank you note. You have little to gain, and much to lose. What's to lose? A reasonably polite, succinct thank-you note is rarely a negative . Some people don't like them, but such people mostly just ignore them. And it's certainly not the kind of faux pas that would sink an oth...

Starting to feel like the Flex is the new normal.