You are in law school. Doesn't that answer the question about what you want to do when you grow up? Apparently not.
Now, you have to figure out your focus. And, unfortunately, your decisions during your first summers and first years out of law school will have significant implications.
As you have discovered, lawyers are not out of the box thinkers. You will not find litigation partners willing to hire someone who has spent three years in a trusts and estates department. They want someone who can help them now. From years of counseling lateral associates, we know that many feel stuck in the box that they chose when they were a second or third year law student.
In retrospect, these young lawyers lament that their decision to practice in a specific area was somewhat arbitrary. They were hired by a firm that specialized in antitrust, were assigned to a huge case, and then two years later find themselves pigeon-holed as an antitrust attorney.
Understanding where you want to devote your energies is vitally important right from the onset. This is an extraordinarily big problem because most law students really don't know what they want to practice. That you like to argue more than others does not necessarily make you suited to litigate. That you have an interest in business does not necessarily mean that you should be practice in the area of commercial transactions. That you have no idea what you want to do is more likely and perhaps why you are on our site.
How can we help? Collectively, our staff has practiced law in multiple law firms in multiple cities, in multiple branches of the federal and state governments, and in various other legal capacities We have a deep breath of knowledge regarding various career paths for lawyers.
Why come to us and not your law school? Most every career planning and placement office in law school are evaluated by a single criteria: how many graduates are employed at graduation? Their function is incredibly vital, particularly in this job market. But, they neither have the expertise nor necessarily the motivation to help figure out what you want to do. Your suffering over whether you want to head into the federal government or into the private sector does not concern them as much as you taking whatever job you are first offered.
Your professors? For the most part, most of them have limited experience outside of academia. Or, more to the point, by definition they opted out of traditional legal employment and for that reason are not really the most objective people for providing career advice for young attorneys.
As for most everyone else other than experienced lawyers, they know very little that would help you.
You need an objective outsider with deep experience to help you. That's where we can be of help.
Having practiced law in multi-national law firms; regional law firms; state law firms; the federal government; city government; in-house; and in entrepreneurial ventures, we have the breadth of experience to guide our clients.
More significantly, we are also counselors. Our mission is to guide our clients to success.
Call: Daryl Capuano (860) 510-0410 or
e-mail dcapuano@learningconsultantsgroup.com
If you are a law student in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island or Massachusetts, then we may be able to meet with you in person. If you are a law student in any other part of the country, then we can meet virtually through phone, e-mail, or Skype.
Now, you have to figure out your focus. And, unfortunately, your decisions during your first summers and first years out of law school will have significant implications.
As you have discovered, lawyers are not out of the box thinkers. You will not find litigation partners willing to hire someone who has spent three years in a trusts and estates department. They want someone who can help them now. From years of counseling lateral associates, we know that many feel stuck in the box that they chose when they were a second or third year law student.
In retrospect, these young lawyers lament that their decision to practice in a specific area was somewhat arbitrary. They were hired by a firm that specialized in antitrust, were assigned to a huge case, and then two years later find themselves pigeon-holed as an antitrust attorney.
Understanding where you want to devote your energies is vitally important right from the onset. This is an extraordinarily big problem because most law students really don't know what they want to practice. That you like to argue more than others does not necessarily make you suited to litigate. That you have an interest in business does not necessarily mean that you should be practice in the area of commercial transactions. That you have no idea what you want to do is more likely and perhaps why you are on our site.
How can we help? Collectively, our staff has practiced law in multiple law firms in multiple cities, in multiple branches of the federal and state governments, and in various other legal capacities We have a deep breath of knowledge regarding various career paths for lawyers.
Why come to us and not your law school? Most every career planning and placement office in law school are evaluated by a single criteria: how many graduates are employed at graduation? Their function is incredibly vital, particularly in this job market. But, they neither have the expertise nor necessarily the motivation to help figure out what you want to do. Your suffering over whether you want to head into the federal government or into the private sector does not concern them as much as you taking whatever job you are first offered.
Your professors? For the most part, most of them have limited experience outside of academia. Or, more to the point, by definition they opted out of traditional legal employment and for that reason are not really the most objective people for providing career advice for young attorneys.
As for most everyone else other than experienced lawyers, they know very little that would help you.
You need an objective outsider with deep experience to help you. That's where we can be of help.
Having practiced law in multi-national law firms; regional law firms; state law firms; the federal government; city government; in-house; and in entrepreneurial ventures, we have the breadth of experience to guide our clients.
More significantly, we are also counselors. Our mission is to guide our clients to success.
Call: Daryl Capuano (860) 510-0410 or
e-mail dcapuano@learningconsultantsgroup.com
If you are a law student in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island or Massachusetts, then we may be able to meet with you in person. If you are a law student in any other part of the country, then we can meet virtually through phone, e-mail, or Skype.