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NALP is easily the best for mass mailing. Has # of SAs for each office for most firms and contact information for recruiting. Most large firms will be there, but I also mix in the top firms for my preferred practice areas by researching on Chambers and Partners, since occasionally they aren't NALP ...

This might be a silly question but I might as well ask. So I'm working at the department of police accountability for the summer and I have a memo to write. My supervisor told me that there's no hard deadline but to aim for the 15th. I thought I'd be done by today but I think it's going to bleed ov...

People have google if they don’t know. I wouldn’t stress too much about it.

I wouldn’t type out ERISA or FCPA or FLSA or EEOC on a legal resume. LIBOR seems similarly well-known, in my anecdotal impression?

How else do you research a firm, especially for interviews? It's been a while, but I relied on - every bit of available website info (Chambers, NALP, Above the Law, you name it) I could find, including the gossip - alumni contacts there (sometimes also a good opportunity to grab networking coffee) ...

I would take it as one data point among (hopefully) many.

Have you considered legal work somewhere less demanding than a big law firm? Or even something adjacent, like law school recruiting? I apologize if this sounds ignorant — I don’t really know much about workplace disability — but do you think it might be easier to make it work somewhere if you disclo...

Every law school resume I’ve seen listed affinity group board positions — including mine. Listing things like LGBT alliance is useful to my mind if only because you probably wouldn’t want to work somewhere that would ding you for that anyway.

Title pretty much says it all. Got a callback interview request after attending a reception. Does anyone know how likely the callback will turn into an offer, assuming that it goes well? Impossible to say. If you got a callback you have a genuine shot. No need to overthink unknowable odds. Any gene...

Depending how broadly you define con law, virtually any civil or criminal lit practice will wind up touching on it at various points. At a big firm probably the most direct path to working on Bill of Rights type issues is going to be through pro bono, if that’s what you’re referring to (though like ...

Breyer is hot garbage on con crim issues anyway, so defections still overwhelmingly work out in the right’s favor.

There’s a really good Current Affairs with Corey Robin I think that helped me understand what the hell Clarence Thomas’s deal might be in a more concrete way. Tl;dr being that, yes, he’s a huge reactionary, but as with a lot of hoteps it’s born out of a certain understanding of America’s racist hist...

If you’re genuinely interested in a specific practice area at a firm, it’s a good opportunity to express enthusiasm at interviews. Gives you plenty of question fodder if nothing else. I don’t see the harm in putting it in a cover letter — maybe try not to make it sound like it’s the only thing you’r...

Starting a new poll for dem for prez thread. The names/lineup posted just fine EXCEPT the votes from the last poll are somehow carrying over. Instead of everyone starting at Zero, it’s the % carried over from whoever had been in that space. Michael Bennet now has Biden's 11 votes, because Biden had...

Sounds like a public health measure.

Damn that’s egregious.

Sorry if this is presumptuous and you’ve already given this thought, but have you considered what might happen if you turn out to hate biglaw, or discover that the “prestige” is actually hollow and unfulfilling? Because that’s a way more common story than you might expect from the other side. It sou...

I would absolutely wait; there’s very little downside to delaying law school, especially in a case like this one. Mind sharing why you want to switch from a high-benefits government job to the biglaw grind? Do you dislike your work that much?

No, because I don't draft briefs on a seventy-year-old typewriter. But I do italicize it.

Law school is nothing like legal practice, and liking one has very little relation to the liking the other. That said, there's little point in taking on massive amounts of debt for a field you don't want to pursue. Did you have a career before law school you could return to, or did you go straight t...

Students with partners don’t tend to live any one particular area other than “convenient commuting distance to Penn.” Center City, Graduate Hospital, and West Philly just southwest of campus are all popular options in roughly descending order of priciness for the same space (caveat that CC is a huge...

Folks here definitely have. But Friday evenings and Saturday morning are usually among the quietest times on the site. You might have to wait a few days. You could also try cross-posting in the Law Grad Lounge, where a lot of post-LS employment discussion takes place.

They don't much matter but UVA's rubric sounds good.

UVA is clearly the better choice in a vacuum in terms of employment outcomes, financial offers being equal. But as to whether that’s worth up and moving your lives 3-4 hours from DC is a highly personal choice. I’d wait to find out what actual cost of attendance at each is expected to be before maki...

Largely irrelevant, unfortunately. University pedigree is a soft bump at best. I would not transfer if that’s your only reason though.