Hi I’m an incoming law student and I’m interested in working in civil rights and social justice.What is like working at the AG’s office ? I’m recently coming from working as support staff at a DA’s office and it’s been terrible enough to put me in therapy a lot rampant abuse of power from management. I don’t mind doing a lot of work but I can’t take being in that environment.
The goal for law school is public interest work. After getting waitlisted from several schools, I decided to rage apply to several positions with borderline zero hope I would get them( I’ve struggled with unemployment on and off since graduating) and now I actually got an interview for an organisation for a paralegal position with 15K more than what I’m making now. This org is literally what I’ve been angling to work at after law school. If I worked this job for a year or so I could finally afford consistent tutoring and increase my LSAT score and possibly reapply. The interview is in person and they’re looking for someone to start immediately like within a few weeks.
The only problem is I would have to walk away from a deposit and my mom has been carrying around my law school merch, I have a healthy scholarship that comes with mentorship . The only thing is that makes me very wary is minor but I’m seeing a lot of graduates on LinkedIn who don’t seem to have jobs after graduating and getting a job after is very important to me. However on the ABA 509 reports, most students are employed ten months after graduating.
I’m also not super confident about graduating at the top of my class. Many students at the ASD were clearly hungry, had extensive corporate experience, were waitlisted or turned down t14s, and/or came from highly prestigious undergrads. However I get the sense being above medians is required for my desired outcomes.
I’m not a KJD, I have around two years of work experience and graduated three years ago, it kind of sucks to see my peers with JDs and work with attorneys who are my age and already lawyers.
How is everyone paying living expenses for all three years if the loan cap is 50,000 ?
I really, really wish I were born in the lap to privillege and wealth. If I were rich, I'd be super grateful for what I had and would be in a high-profile nonprofit position, which seems to be the natural order of things in that industry. The satisfaction of having to earn my place in the world with merit and luck will never displace my secret desire to have a great life handed to me.
Hey all, I’m slightly leaning towards R and R. I hope to do impact litigation one day and unfortunately it seems fairly gate-kept which really sucks. I’m so grateful for my acceptances so far and the school I deposited at has interesting clinics, and gave me a very good scholarship. But it was a safety tbh and I’m afraid it won’t take me where I need to go which is gate kept by clerkships and is dominated by t14s.
I also don’t feel super proud about this whole process I’ve felt super stressed between loan changes, job searching, family issues, work problems etc. it’s been a tough year and I applied locally which set me back a lot.
My only problem is I would need to find a new job. My current job is working night shift as court staff and it’s been a very stressful environment with low pay and bad supervisors. I can’t even transfer units because you need informal permission to do so and management will definitely try to sabotage transferring.
I have one LSAT attempt left, my best score is a 167. I would need a 170 plus.
Does job hopping look bad to law school admissions ?
I'm going home.
Y'all, I refuse to take out private loans unless it's a T14. If grad plus loans come back, maybe I'll transfer, but I'm a New Yorker, and rent is too expensive to pay sticker. Currently working on LOCIs still, the dream is still NYU and CLS and the bigger dream is impact lit