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Date: April 20th, 2014 11:42 AM Author: Ruddy Temple Here's my situation: Ivy undergrad, T2 law school (went b/c of full ride), immediately went to T1 tax LLM. Graduated law school cum laude with 3.6, currently coasting with a 3.8 on the LLM. Pre-law school work experience was basically the boring old Wall Street investment banking schtick (meh... made good $, but so boring). During 1L and 2L summers I worked for a solo practitioner b/c it was the best offer I got that paid a decent $25/hr.
Anyway, I just got called into an interview with a BigLaw firm. I am taking a class with the managing partner of this BigLaw firm's regional office. We grabbed lunch and he asked for my resume. I sent it to him, and a few weeks later the firm's recruiter emails me asking for transcripts. I sent them along and immediately was asked to schedule an interview with the office's other co-managing partner. The partner I will be interviewing with for "30 - 45 minutes" runs the office's corporate practice, which is what the firm is known for in this market.
I'm wondering if anyone can give me some insight into this situation (non-OCI, interview with one top level partner). I'm pretty excited but nervous at the same time. I've never done a BigLaw interview before so any tips would be wonderful and greatly appreciated. |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:05 PM Author: Grizzly Low-t Hospital Telephone likely flame, but it's plausible enough flame. just google advice on biglaw interviews. there's nothing special about this one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414555) |
Date: April 20th, 2014 12:59 PM Author: pontificating spectacular boistinker Nice flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414533) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:01 PM Author: Ruddy Temple not flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414541) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:02 PM Author: glittery idiotic pit this literally has to be flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414543) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:03 PM Author: Ruddy Temple why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414546) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:07 PM Author: glittery idiotic pit this would never happen.
i went to a lower T50, and my 1L year, my girlfriend's dad told me he did the taxes of a biglaw partner and did he want him to pass my info along to the guy. lol. he probably gave my info to the dude, who threw it straight in the garbage. |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:09 PM Author: Ruddy Temple You sound bitter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414572) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:10 PM Author: glittery idiotic pit not bitter. the first couple years after graduation were pretty bad for me, but i'm at a good firm now and like what i'm doing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414581) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:09 PM Author: pontificating spectacular boistinker 1. how is it possible you've never had a biglaw interview before. didn't you have OCI?
2. your use of T1 and T2 reeks of flame |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:10 PM Author: Grizzly Low-t Hospital Telephone since when do T2 shitheads get biglaw interviews? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414584) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:11 PM Author: pontificating spectacular boistinker nice HLS trolling (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414586) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:11 PM Author: Ruddy Temple OCI at my T2 was a joke. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414587) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:14 PM Author: pontificating spectacular boistinker well, if not flame, interviewing for these positions without any real exp to talk about fucking sucks. it's way easier when you have already worked at a firm for a few yrs and you can just bullshit about matters you've worked on. fucking sucks when you have to talk about vague shit like "what's interesting in your classes!" and shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414597) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:15 PM Author: Ruddy Temple Any advice on what specifically to focus on discussing? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414600) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:53 PM Author: pontificating spectacular boistinker it really helps if you actually do have a specific interest. then you can just get into asking him a lot of questions about how it "works in the real world" and shit and you can demonstrate some of your knowledge of the area. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414772) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 2:13 PM Author: wine dog poop resort If not flame, just try to get the interviewer to do all the talking. Make your answers as concise as possible and try to get him to ramble about stuff he really cares about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414906) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 2:16 PM Author: Grizzly Low-t Hospital Telephone this isn't always credited. this isn't a typical biglaw interview where it's yours to lose. this guy has an uphill battle to get hired, and he need to sell himself somewhat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414923) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 2:28 PM Author: wine dog poop resort IDK, it sounds like the partner was actively requesting application materials from this guy. He must've seen something he liked to go out of his way to encourage this student to apply. So to me, this seems like a classic case of "yours to lose" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25415001) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 2:30 PM Author: Grizzly Low-t Hospital Telephone it sounds like the case of a dude who one partner is backing and has to make the case to his colleagues to hire him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25415011) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 3:03 PM Author: wine dog poop resort good point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25415210) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 3:05 PM Author: Grizzly Low-t Hospital Telephone that's why, if this is flame, it's executed well. it makes perfect sense that the dude is interviewing with some other practice group head as a "gatekeeper." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25415218) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:04 PM Author: Racy misanthropic ticket booth dingle berry the situation you describe is literally impossible, so it must be flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414551) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:06 PM Author: Grizzly Low-t Hospital Telephone it's possible at a branch office in a secondary market. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414559) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:10 PM Author: Racy misanthropic ticket booth dingle berry no biglaw firms are interviewing LLMs with no experience right now. none. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414579) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:11 PM Author: glittery idiotic pit "tell me a little bit about what you did at.... the law offices of bruce shitstain, esquire" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414588) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:11 PM Author: Ruddy Temple do you have a tax LLM? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414592) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:12 PM Author: pontificating spectacular boistinker especially non NYU/Gtown LLMs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414593) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:15 PM Author: Grizzly Low-t Hospital Telephone this is where sometimes xo fails. xo is so obsessed with generalizations that it can't possibly fathom exceptions to the rule. OPs scenario is unlikely, but it's plausible. just like an asian man having sex with a real-life vagina is plausible, even though extremely unlikely and xo would have you believe that it has literally never happened before.
it's plausible that a smaller regional biglaw office has a pretty leanly staffed especially because of ITE and might even have had further departures, and they have more work and a need for a junior person. |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:26 PM Author: Cerebral bawdyhouse I am inclined to say this is not flame because this is a cross poast from that toplawschools.com Vale of Tears thread
EDIT: for clarity, I don't think the subject matter is flame, but this is not OP |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 1:30 PM Author: Ruddy Temple You sound like a dumb fuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25414660) |
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Date: April 20th, 2014 2:52 PM Author: Crimson maniacal feces messiness I hope you're doing tax cuz if you thought IB was boring, just wait until you do corporate law (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2547533&forum_id=2#25415122) |