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Thanks for this guide. Do you guys recommend sending out the actual applications even if your school's guidelines prohibit that? Also, isn't it kind of odd to send a pre-OCI email app to a firm if they are coming to your school's OCI anyways? Career services may give guidance that prohibits rising ...

SmokeytheBear wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 3:39 pm

UVA2B wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 3:35 pm

Good to see you, Smokey.

'been preoccupied putting out some fires in this great state of California.

Insert Uber joke

How do you handle being assigned a lot of work from different attorneys during your 1L SA? I have a friend who said he worked 10.5 hours by her second day. For anyone who's had both a 1L and 2L summer in biglaw, are there any differences between the 2/how the SA is treated/work load? This will be s...

How do you handle being assigned a lot of work from different attorneys during your 1L SA? I have a friend who said he worked 10.5 hours by her second day. For anyone who's had both a 1L and 2L summer in biglaw, are there any differences between the 2/how the SA is treated/work load? This will be s...

The easiest way to tell if an LRAP is "reliable" is if it's tied to PSLF or not. I believe all of the T6 have disconnected their LRAP programs from PSLF, for instance, meaning they will continue whether government-backed PSLF continues or not. That's not to say an LRAP at another school that is tie...

The easiest way to tell if an LRAP is "reliable" is if it's tied to PSLF or not. I believe all of the T6 have disconnected their LRAP programs from PSLF, for instance, meaning they will continue whether government-backed PSLF continues or not. That's not to say an LRAP at another school that is tied...

You have to submit all transcripts on your record, but only classes prior to your first bachelors counts toward your LSAC GPA.

Unless Chicago isn’t included in that list of large cities you’d want to live, and you’d be comfortable missing out on mid-large law firms potentially, UIUC is the much better option (assuming the above question about COA isn’t prohibitive at both, which I doubt it would be at 75% tuition off). Also...

1. The topic doesn’t matter unless it’s a really terrible or possibly political topic. Terrible topics are obviously bad, and possibly political topics could rub an interviewer poorly, and it’s not worth the risk. It has nothing to do with your ability to dissect the law and case law though. 2. I wo...

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Fri May 03, 2019 3:25 pm

Nebby wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 30, 2019 11:36 pm

20%

What's 20%?

Bad tipping jokes.

Assuming this is for 2L summer and OCI? I don’t think there is a huge difference between a case comment, a legal research/writing memo, or some other demonstration of legal writing, so long as it does demonstrate your ability to write coherently and concisely. As to spacing and font size for this sp...

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Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:35 am

You're right to lean Columbia here, for all the reasons you've already listed. NYU comes into play if they beat Columbia's aid offer.

Yup.

I don’t think you need to drastically change your law school plans because you want to dabble in Title IX defense. You could probably, once the time comes, do substantial pro bono work if your firm is willing to sponsor it and back you on it. Most biglaw firms are generally open to younger attorneys...

There isn’t any harm in waiting out your WLs, but you should probably pick between your two best options in the interim. If you want to push for HK immediately following graduation, HLS is a perfectly defensible choice, especially considering you were already leaning that way from the start. I would...

I went back and read the two posts by OP and it's not entirely clear to me whether he already has a family/children. I'd take UVA if he already has a family and children to take care of. If he's single and just thinking about a future family--or if he's married to someone that also has a relatively...

I'm a little (but not a lot) surprised by these responses. Maybe we need further clarity from OP on his/her goals, but the way I read the OP was that the most immediate and highest priority goal was "Biglaw for 2-3 years, preferably in international arbitration (with China/HK focus) to pay down loa...

First things first: given your current numbers, that's a pretty strong offer from GULC, and I'm actually surprised UCI with such a smaller tuition discount is approximately the same price. Are you positive on the COA calculation there? $158k is near a full ride for GULC, so assuming all other COL an...

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Since Stranger has done so much heavy lifting here, I’ve made him the OP. Nebby has given his permission to change the OP.

Is it safe to assume you're a 1L? That could be important here. As ymmv said, legal practice and law school will be fairly different, especially in the interactions you have with classmates/coworkers. Until you experience legal work in something that ideally interests you in legal practice, you can'...

The USNWR rankings rely on enough factors that they can keep a roughly same pecking order while playing in the margins, because people unfortunately obsess over these marginal differences and question why Duke won't raise above #10 or whether it matters GULC is tied with Cornell at #14. I'm probably...

What career options are you looking for a boost in?

Retaking is a good idea especially if you are confident you can improve (although you’re right that your results are already not in line with your numbers). The only thing I would caution is jumping at WL movement if you improve, because your admissions and scholarship results could drastically impr...

I’m confused. You demonstrate zero knowledge of the legal field as demonstrated by your complete lack of knowledge how regional schools affect employment in other regions and whether anyone really cares about law school rankings (outside very rough bands as demonstrated by their overall employment s...

Ok, well let’s break this down, because your first post doesn’t necessarily inform your second post. If you’re looking to practice oil and gas in a private firm setting (which is how I take it when you say corporate), you’re looking at two very less than stellar options. Neither DU or St. Mary will ...