Spent all spring/summer applying to firms and didn't get any bites. Had to go back to my original firm, which I didn't want to do - both because its a miserable place to work and because it's on the wrong coast. I can't lateral immediately, because that looks weird, and by the time I wait a year, I'll be a 5th year, which is starting to get a little too old to lateral.

Got fucked right in the pussy. One.wrong.move.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2682668&forum_id=2#26385935)

You can lateral after 6-12 months back at the firm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2682668&forum_id=2#26386069)

clerking was the best year of my life since college, btw. lol at mistake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2682668&forum_id=2#26386163)

1 year later disappear to Atlanta to clerk

2 years later mass mail west coast biglaw

Of course this strategy doesn't work. Recruiters see somebody without ties or a connection from his clerkship who ran away from his firm after a year, and assume he either got pushed out or can't cut it. Clerkships are a great credential if you leverage them well. Clerking in a random non- coastal market you don't want to practice in as a way to swap east coast biglaw for west coast biglaw is just a terrible strategy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2682668&forum_id=2#26390229)

And given that so many judges (everywhere - not just NYC) hire for a year out these days, it just seems like his pattern should be pretty common.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2682668&forum_id=2#26390259)

Edit: I also am not sure the 'mercenary' thing applies to clerkships given how common it is to end up in the middle of nowhere - but I may have also bought into the clerkship bullshit thrown out by my school.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2682668&forum_id=2#26390328)