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Date: April 14th, 2014 8:58 PM Author: odious really tough guy bawdyhouse Can anyone offer me any sort of tips or insights with regards to 3L hiring by biglaw firms.
I am a 2L at a top 20 school with a GPA around 3.5. Spent 1L summer in house at a bay area tech company and am spending my 2L summer in government.
I know it is early to be thinking about this but I just wanted to get some perspective on firms that hire 3L's and when I should start applying.
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:00 PM Author: fiercely-loyal puce fortuitous meteor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384081) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:00 PM Author: Boyish jew they all do (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384082) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:02 PM Author: Greedy cowardly school electric furnace You'll get in everywhere you apply!*
*But in all seriousness, it's almost impossible to get a BIGLAW offer as a 3L. There's almost no spots and there's an insane amount of competition. If you don't show up to the interview with an offer in hand from another somewhat respectable firm, your chances are essentially nil. |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:04 PM Author: disturbing alpha enjoy doc review (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384114) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:05 PM Author: magenta mexican cruise ship 3L OCI for top 20 schools hasn't existed since Fall 2008 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384119) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:10 PM Author: flirting lemon candlestick maker I've seen a few 3L job postings from big firms on my school's job board. It's there but there are so few postings that I imagine it's reserved for people with offers in hand looking to trade up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384149) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:11 PM Author: Soul-stirring market mis-spelled "all but YS" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384152) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:07 PM Author: spectacular mood library Some firms did a lot of 3L hiring in recent years but they were booming. Not many firms are booming now.
Apply very broadly. I don't know about timing but I think July would seem reasonable? Ask career services.
You're about to be torn apart ITT but you may as well try.
Otoh if you don't get big law keep in mind you dodged a bullet. I am in big law and am beyond miserable. I'm just too risk averse to leave. This will be you if you get in. |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:09 PM Author: Hairraiser Flickering Lodge Pocket Flask it's good for clearing debt and bad in pretty much every other way conceivable--and in more ways and to a much higher degree than you will have conceived going in (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384138) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:11 PM Author: spectacular mood library You can't even pay off much debt in MFH. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384151) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:13 PM Author: Hairraiser Flickering Lodge Pocket Flask 3-5 years to get rid of it. then you kind of start at zero in every respect in building a real career/life (after wasting several years and probably compromising your health in the process) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384174) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:14 PM Author: fiercely-loyal puce fortuitous meteor u can paye it off (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384187) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:07 PM Author: Claret blathering hall pervert Brother, I think you are in the wrong place. This post has nothing to do with tranny girlfriends or game of thrones. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384131) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:10 PM Author: laughsome rambunctious ladyboy ceo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384142) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:33 PM Author: bateful plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384304) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:08 PM Author: Salmon Nowag Home better odds pulling off the mfff foursome (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384135) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 11:13 PM Author: Shivering Provocative Persian Foreskin Go on. . . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25385014) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:10 PM Author: Brindle jap Who would win -- OP or Floyd Mayweather in a street fight? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384146) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:10 PM Author: chocolate stubborn partner forum Apply to latham they hire a ton of 3ls every year and it's pretty random hiring - they aren't selective at all. Know below median t14 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384147) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 9:28 PM Author: chocolate stubborn partner forum (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384277) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 10:40 PM Author: vigorous impertinent piazza I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're not flame. If this is a serious question, you have approximately a snowball's chance in hell of getting a 3L firm offer with those credentials. Just being real. As others on this thread have noted, these days 3L OCI is basically to allow people who have a firm offer in hand to try to trade up. Even people with excellent grades from HYS will have a hard time getting a 3L offer if they don't have an offer from their 2L firm. So the chances of someone around median at a T20 who didn't even work at a firm 2L summer landing a 3L offer are virtually nil. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, bro. I hope you weren't counting on biglaw money to pay down your debt, because if you were, you should give serious thought to dropping out now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25384803) |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 11:15 PM Author: chocolate stubborn partner forum Apply. To. Latham.
Op has a good of a chance as anyone from hys going for 3L biglaw |
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Date: April 14th, 2014 11:42 PM Author: lascivious garnet mediation dopamine this is accurate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2543596&forum_id=2#25385131) |