Is it hard to get a job in a major law firm right out of college?
I know that most of the lawyers in the big NYC firms are from Ivy League schools, but in firms in other major cities, can you just be at the top of your class in the local law school, and still get hired at one of these firms?
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You can be in the middle of the class at a local school and still join a major New York City firm. It's not easy, and you will need something special to make you stand out from the pack, but it can be done. It has been done. I am the proof of it.
"Top of the class" at a second-rate law school will have a harder time than middle of the class at a good school. And by this, I do not mean the Ivy League schools. There are firms that hire only Ivy grads. Yummy, I clean their clocks every time I come up against them. They're so smart and well-educated that they don't think they need to work hard. I overheard two White Shoe Dweebs the other day complaining about two consecutive 60-hour weeks.
I would love to take it that easy.
Remember, law is hard. It's hard to get into law school. It's hard to survive law school. It's not easy being a junior lawyer either. And while it gets a little less hard as time goes on, it never gets really easy. You need to have a fire in your belly to succeed in the legal profession, and the best way there is to start that fire is to go to the best law school you can get into and put everything you can into that educational experience.
And remember that you can't get a job as a lawyer right out of college. It takes three years of post-graduate education (four if you go at night and five if you study in a law office).
The answer to your question, in brief, is, "Yes, it is hard to get a job at a major law firm right out of school". And "just" being at the top of your class is no easy feat. You need top notch grades, pretigious internship(s), a good performance in moot court/mock trial, and letters of reference. Even then, it wouldn't hurt to have a close contact on the "inside" who can put in a good word for you. It's very cutthroat and competitive at the top of attorney ranks, even (or maybe especially) among new lawyers.
Yeah its hard, you got to intern for free, and then most don't get hired...
The more lawyers we get the more lawyers we need.
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You can be in the middle of the class at a local school and still join a major New York City firm. It's not easy, and you will need something special to make you stand out from the pack, but it can be done. It has been done. I am the proof of it.
"Top of the class" at a second-rate law school will have a harder time than middle of the class at a good school. And by this, I do not mean the Ivy League schools. There are firms that hire only Ivy grads. Yummy, I clean their clocks every time I come up against them. They're so smart and well-educated that they don't think they need to work hard. I overheard two White Shoe Dweebs the other day complaining about two consecutive 60-hour weeks.
I would love to take it that easy.
Remember, law is hard. It's hard to get into law school. It's hard to survive law school. It's not easy being a junior lawyer either. And while it gets a little less hard as time goes on, it never gets really easy. You need to have a fire in your belly to succeed in the legal profession, and the best way there is to start that fire is to go to the best law school you can get into and put everything you can into that educational experience.
And remember that you can't get a job as a lawyer right out of college. It takes three years of post-graduate education (four if you go at night and five if you study in a law office).
The answer to your question, in brief, is, "Yes, it is hard to get a job at a major law firm right out of school". And "just" being at the top of your class is no easy feat. You need top notch grades, pretigious internship(s), a good performance in moot court/mock trial, and letters of reference. Even then, it wouldn't hurt to have a close contact on the "inside" who can put in a good word for you. It's very cutthroat and competitive at the top of attorney ranks, even (or maybe especially) among new lawyers.
Yeah its hard, you got to intern for free, and then most don't get hired...
The more lawyers we get the more lawyers we need.
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