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Firm asking us to confirm practice groups. Last chance 2 switch
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Date: March 29th, 2015 7:23 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference I put corporate and am still leaning that way given the generally brighter future for corp bros, especially given the recent slaughter of lit associates. But I get that there are ebbs and flows with both corp and lit, and its kinda dumb to base it on that.
The big advantage I see with lit is it would let me practice biglaw for a few years and get booted/quit and go solo, which I think I'd be decent at. Then I could be my own boss. Corp it would be difficult to do this.
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Date: March 29th, 2015 7:27 PM Author: Yapping internal respiration stage As a bro who has done both just do corp. It's way better in pretty much every way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578274) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 7:33 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference You did both? You didn't find the lit work a bit more interesting? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578312) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 7:34 PM Author: Yapping internal respiration stage Trust me you won't give a fuck for "what's interesting" after you get yelled at by some 5'6 kike with a short syndrome for the first time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578317) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 7:44 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference When I was an SA we were told it was congenial atmosphere so Im not sure have to worry about that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578393) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 8:42 PM Author: Yapping internal respiration stage try less hard w/ ur flame next time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578723) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 8:01 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578523) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 8:47 PM Author: Kink-friendly Lay i litigate and couldn't imagine doing anything else.
in my opinion it doesn't make sense to try to pick what's going to be hot in a day/month/year and you should do what you like and what you're good at.
this may apply less if you don't really want to be a lawyer and just slouched toward law school as a default, but if that's you you're probably fucked anyway. |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 8:53 PM Author: Yapping internal respiration stage several fatal flaws here: (1) you can't possibly know this beforehand since no one in law school knows what transactional work is; (2) most people in law school are good at writing so they assume they would prefer litigation, especially since they are familiar with brief writing, but that couldn't be further from the truth -- i enjoy writing, but the stress of drafting a brief under a time crunch is far more (at least to me) than turning a redline or hopping on a conference call. in the latter you know it will all work out in advance. in the former you are scrambling like mad to figure out wtf the brief is going to look like, or if you even have an argument. it's nuts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578779) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:31 PM Author: Kink-friendly Lay i understand your point but i think it's an oversimplification.
mostly you're saying students have an information deficit on what corporate versus litigation work actually is. many people at my LS had industry experience in banking, MBB, etc., which gives a sense of the things touching and concerning transactional projects. i had several years of industry experience, which helped let me know i probably didn't like transactional as much. obviously nothing anyone can do about this once they show up at school.
i also split my 1L summer between lit and transactional to get a better sense of what they involved, which was helpful. now not as many people have the luxury of a 1L summer these days, but any decent firm will be fine with you taking some lit and some transactional assignments.
but you're also mixing points because you transition into this or that reason why you prefer corporate work to litigation work, presumably independent of exit options and whatnot. you worked in both corp and lit at your firm, but short of that, how do you propose 3Ls figure out which practice group they will like more? |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:01 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference I did put a lot of thought into the choice to attend LS and prepared and during 1L read about practice groups etc. to try and get a sense of what I'd like to do. Like a lot of students I thought of myself as a good writer and would enjoy brief writing and do well in court, but it also seems like there are an endless stream of really well qualified and able litigators. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578846) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:38 PM Author: Kink-friendly Lay not as many as you might think.
if you're on the fence or indifferent then sure, use your crystal ball and try to see what will be best for your career in three years. but if you actually know what you like better and pick something you like less because it's the "smart" move you're not going to like what you're doing and won't flourish.
i went to school when things were easier and worked at a firm that didn't lay anyone off in 2008-2010 so take my perspective with a grain of salt. |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 8:52 PM Author: high-end cerebral set (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578778) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 8:57 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference first (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27578815) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:23 PM Author: high-end cerebral set (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27579007) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:26 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference Big firm? Did you do lit or corp assignments? Sounds like that's a license to put you wherever they need bodies. With all the bloodletting going on in lit right now who knows.
But I should add I have no idea how this process actually works |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:30 PM Author: high-end cerebral set Yes large firm. Did both over the summer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27579040) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:35 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference maybe we were at the same firm breh. hope we maek it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27579065) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:40 PM Author: high-end cerebral set Fingers crossed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27579109) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:45 PM Author: orchid sanctuary I've done both and I find transactional work torture. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27579130) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 9:59 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference What about it? The monotony and repetition of it all?
One thing that kind of irks me about lit is the constant nitpicking of written work. I also get kinda depressed at what seem like waste of time assignments, like researching case law to fight about requests for documents. |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 10:02 PM Author: orchid sanctuary Yes, it's secretarial work. Lit has a lot of the bullshit you mentioned but is also interesting at times; corp is pretty much never interesting. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27579232) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 10:19 PM Author: Kink-friendly Lay tcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27579314) |
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Date: March 29th, 2015 10:09 PM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference I know this is a very TLS question, but what are the odds a corp associate could jump to a high level non law role in a f500, or to ibanking. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27579261) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:38 AM Author: adventurous cumskin athletic conference plz respond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841854&forum_id=2#27580095) |