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re: Life as a Lawyer Advice Needed
Posted on 3/29/24 at 11:25 am to baldona
Posted on 3/29/24 at 11:25 am to baldona
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Law is one of the professions where being at the best school possible can have a monumental outcome if you are a top student.
100%. If you want to do big law in NYC, by far your best chance to break into that world is going to a T14 school. It's not impossible if you aren't at one of those schools, but you'll have to network really hard to break in.
Alternatively, if she wants to work at a smaller, more local firm, she needs to think about where she wants to live. For example, if she likes the SC area she should go to SC over Tennessee or LSU. Being in SC, they will value a SC law degree over basically anything else.
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Posted on 3/29/24 at 11:36 am to OleVaught14
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100%. If you want to do big law in NYC, by far your best chance to break into that world is going to a T14 school. It's not impossible if you aren't at one of those schools, but you'll have to network really hard to break in.
One of my best friends is a partner at the NYC office of one of the top firms in the world. He graduated from Tennessee Law. He is the hardest working person I've ever met and is certainly an exception. He started in their Atlanta office before moving up to NYC
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