shytlaw, doc review, local midlaw w/ legwork the well-connected kids (think lawyer parents, Groton/Exeter undergrads, SEO kids of color, and the ones who did something notable outside of Law school) still get BigLaw, or in-house.What’s the path for the 80% of students who don’t get big law gigs. I’m sure there have to be other ways to eat coming from a T14 program. Entertainment law? Real estate? Can you go straight to corporate or do those roles usually only go to people leaving big law firms?
But yea, if you’re not the top 10-15% of your class, you’re not landing big law
Better find an area of law you’re passionate aboutm and go that route since chasing the $ didn’t work
Edit: you can also look into consulting jobs at MBB, I know they do tend to hire some JD’s into their associate classes. I believe they all start at 130-150k
Real shytI just fukked up a application at Best Buy and I feel shytty
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OCI is where the absolute vast majority of first jobs are gotten. It’s incredibky difficult without some truly impressive networking.
The bare minimum is $190k in all major markets, and goes up $20k per year + bonuses and matching 401k, major reimbursements, health and dental.
SEO?me and two other brehs at my school in the same position, but it's a couple black women with lower grades than is that got jobs.
Wtf?[coli]meh depending where you are 190k is not that much money[/breh]
This gotta be a joke?
It’s not that cut and dry
That's also why the shyttest people usually wind up in the highest positions of leadership in this country.
the opportunities may be the same but its a lot harder to land coming from somewhere like Howard law.
Yea, going to Howard and getting big law means you definitely need to be top 5-10% of your class, you need to be in leadership roles and working on publications, it also helps to have a more impressive UG school on your resume. My prophyte went to Howard law as she struggled to get the LSAT needed for T14 schools and I remember her working her ass off even more than our friends at top schools, she ran everything from law review, to publications to still being an active soror to being at every networking event possible. Law school already sounds like hard work (at least compared to doing an MBA), you have to go even further above and beyond at a place like Howard.
I go to an elite law school that the major law firms in the country hire from. They hire in the summer of your 1st year of law school and you work there the next summer and after graduation and they a pay a ridiculous amount of money (190k a year + bonuses).
However, I got mediocre grades by law school standards all Bs and B+'s. I didnt get a job from on campus interviewing and now have been applying like crazy to major firms all across th country with no luck. Once August is over these major firms rarely hire and are preparing for the next recruiting cycle next year for the next crop of first year law students.
So, if I dont by miracle get a job I'll be lucky to get a 60k a year job at a small firm or government. Get bad grades brehs, fukk up the bag brehs.
