tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97429812012-02-01T03:42:06.670-08:00This is the story of someone who attended a good law school and was top 33%, but couldn't get any respect and so transferred to a better law school. While I didn't get a job at Cravath, I did get a top law firm and alot more respect. This is my story and my random musings. lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1111339249522551442005-03-15T09:16:00.000-08:002005-03-20T09:20:49.523-08:00

The girlfriend of a coworker who formerly attended my school turned up at our after work happy hour. She goes to my school and told the coworker that she'd never seen me before. I managed to slip by and mumble something when she asked me about my section. I was crossing my fingers she hadn't been in that section that I was meaninglessly assigned to my second year. Turns out she wasn't in it. The

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1106696183856364022005-01-25T15:36:00.000-08:002005-01-25T15:36:23.856-08:00

I've been given the worst assignment ever. I need to arranged about 20 client interviews in the next 2 weeks. Of course no one is available when the attorneys are. I feel bad for the attorneys though. They're going to wind up in different cities and different countries in the course of only a few weeks. But scheduling is such a nightmare. Calls back and forth. Calls missed. Schedules conflict.

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1106338344196965402005-01-21T12:12:00.000-08:002005-01-21T12:12:24.196-08:00

I am slowly being suffocated out of my office. The associate who sits next to me and controls the thermastat has it on 78 degrees. It's stifling in here! She outranks me so there's nothing I can do but wear sleeveless blouses to work and drink ice water all day and powder my nose every 30 minutes. It's awful. Next to my highlighters and post it notes in my desk I have deodarant and oil blotting

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1106332192295175032005-01-21T10:29:00.000-08:002005-01-21T10:29:52.296-08:00

Law Firm Hell, available at http://lawfirmhell.blogspot.com/Anonymous Lawyer was funnier...but not nearly as funny now knowing it was written by a 3L. Surprising how accurate some of his essays were.

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1106146987955739752005-01-19T07:03:00.000-08:002005-01-19T07:03:07.956-08:00

I am still waiting for my fall grades even though the deadline has passed. My professor has only graded the handful of students who are graduating this winter. Someone got a C+ out of the handful. Doesn't bode well. C+s at a school like mine are pretty rare, reserved for the utterly lazy, the utterly stupid (are there actually any people that dumb at my school?), or the utterly test panicky who

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1106086272675612852005-01-18T14:11:00.000-08:002005-01-18T14:11:12.676-08:00

Transfer chicks are more likely to be academically driven types who take the initiative. You've got to be determined to put in the time and effort to make such a big move. So, those personality traits might correlate to a chick's self-pride (i.e., going to the gym, wearing nice clothes, putting on makeup).(http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=125621#1954164)

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1106084691864955742005-01-18T13:44:00.000-08:002005-01-18T13:44:51.863-08:00

The torture of waiting. I need to know whether I'm facing mediocrity. I can't stand the waiting...

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1106060732452234322005-01-18T07:05:00.000-08:002005-01-18T07:05:32.453-08:00

Q: What do you think about transfer students? There are a number here, and I'm curious about them--and how I ought to view them. Does it matter where they transferred from? As in, T14 -> HYS vs. TTT -> HYS? HYS students feel differently about transfers than CCN and below kids? Would you think they were dumber than you because they couldn't get in initially? Would thinking this be unfair/

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1105808218676965552005-01-15T08:56:00.000-08:002005-01-15T08:56:58.676-08:00

An associate sent an email to me and a coworker about writing a summary judgment motion by tomorrow. I'm in the middle of cite checking a brief that's due tomorrow so I can't do it. So I send my coworker that I chat with a bit, who is male, attractive, and married, an instant message a few seconds after I read the email. I send him a message saying "you want it?" He responds...a few minutes later

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1105621789039991742005-01-13T05:09:00.000-08:002005-01-18T13:41:36.993-08:00

Finished the research memo today. I'm curious whether the memo will have any effect on anything. I wrote it about preventing the plaintiffs from doing X, but actually X is better than if plaintiffs do Y or Z. So we'd rather have X. So why are we fighting X??? Just to fight I guess. After all we're a biglaw firm and they're not. We can spend more money fighting with motions than they can.

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1104937855350333692005-01-05T07:10:00.000-08:002005-01-18T13:43:21.846-08:00

Why are professors so slow with the grades?? I haven't even receieved a grade from a 20 person 1 credit pass/fail class that ended in October yet! So far I only have my one grade, which wasn't bad, but only raised my GPA .01.

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1104869573207319802005-01-04T12:12:00.000-08:002005-01-04T12:12:53.206-08:00

The plaintiff's brief could use a good editor. Their bluebooking isn't that great - they use the subscript "th" and "st" for the circuits instead of "1st Cir. 19XX." All that takes is a simple knowledge of microsoft word. And they make up some quotes - the language isn't direct or they add a phrase in the quotations that isn't there.

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1104789413702701872005-01-03T13:56:00.000-08:002005-01-03T13:56:53.703-08:00

An associate from HYS asked me to help him with a project. We printed out cases on Westlaw of cases cited in the plaintiffs brief. Thats what gets ya the big bucks.

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1104377074316096392004-12-29T19:24:00.000-08:002004-12-29T19:24:34.316-08:00

So I clerk at a firm while I'm in school. And there should be a whole class about what it means to work at a firm. First, when do I stop researching? When do I know I've reached the end of the internet??Second, what if there is no answer? Do I write a memo about something anyway or do I send a one sentence response "There is no answer." Should I say "I can't find an answer" instead?Third, what's

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Got my first grade of this semester today. 8.3% of students got a B+. This was a seminar class so that happens to be 1 student. Poor guy. 58.8% of my class got an A. Lucky bastards. But I can't really complain with an A-, although I did work my butt off for it and this is an "easy" class. It sucks though that I started with a B+ and was ending up with As, and that since this was a skills based

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WOW.New York LawyerDecember 29, 2004 Associates with Houston-based Susman Godfrey will have some extra cash to play around with this year. Each of the 20 associates with the firm's Dallas and Houston offices who have been with Susman for a full year recently received bonuses valued at more than their annual salary; each received in excess of $110,000 in a lump sum, says Susman member Joe

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Q: I recently met someone who transferred from Brooklyn law to BU after her first year. This seemed like a big jump to me. Who knows anything about transferring? Is it normal? Difficult? Do you have to be at the absolute top of your class to do it? How is it even possible to transfer after 1L, since apps are due in the fall, and you wouldn't even have one semester's worth of grades at that point

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1104345346640820002004-12-29T10:35:00.000-08:002004-12-29T10:35:46.640-08:00

A friend of mine who attends a T3 school was recently telling me she is considering an LLM program to help her chances. I wonder how much they do help. I think outside of attending a T2-T4 and having job problems or wanting better options, being a foreign student, or pursuing specialized studies like tax, it's not necessary and may just look like you're delaying the inevitable. I am curious as to

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1104339754220970442004-12-29T09:02:00.000-08:002004-12-29T09:02:34.220-08:00

Harvard 3L Jeremy Blachman is the infamous "anonymous lawyer" of the funny, and so close to the truth, anonymous lawyer blog that was recently featured in the NYT. http://jeremyblachman.blogspot.com/2004/12/blog-post.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/fashion/26BLOG.html

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http://anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/2004/12/ive-been-sensing-some-anxiety-from.htmlInteresting comments. Most people seem to think adding $5 is ridiculous and mean. It reminds me of one of my firm offers for $2404.00 a week for the summer. I had offers from more prestigious firms which were only $2400. My parents kept telling me to take the "highest paying offer." I don't think in the grand

lawtransferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824723173427020182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9742981.post-1104268078256294782004-12-28T13:07:00.000-08:002004-12-28T13:07:58.256-08:00

I find it amusing when I see people posting on law boards about the placement rates from the school I first attended. I mean does my previous law school count "any" job as being in the placement rate? If I graduated with 100k in debt and then paralegaled for 35k a year, is that being "placed"? What about if I had taken a 20k job at Burger King? Seriously I was begging for a job when I was

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http://www.deloggio.com/homepage/faq/hearing/transfer.htm

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So there's this website chiashu where you can get actual stats, and not the ranges on the LSAC calculator. Since I'm a glutton for punishment, I typed my stats in: School where I am attending now: a # between 5% and 8% - Yikes! School where I attended: a # between 40-50% 2% and under chance: Harvard, Yale, and includes school I was deferred from actually (and then not let in) Under 8% chance:

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She says: Here are some examples of factors that might get you in with lower than median numbers: Good explanations for low grades -- illness, full-time work experience, etc. Extraordinary achievements -- ones that no one else at your entire university can claim (e.g., editor-in-chief of the school paper, president of the student government, etc) Superb recs -- not ones that say you got an A,

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