The Biglaw Devil Wears Brooks Brothers/Ann Taylor by Jay Price Whether your Spring Break entails relaxing on a beach or pounding energy drinks in your snow-encased apartment for lonely outlining sessions (after all, law school gunners know how to party too), finals will soon be over and then we can get down to business – summer at a law firm. The food, the drinks, the all night raves in hiring partners’ basements. Wait, that was before 2008. Well, there is still the food and the “can I eat that
This is the second in a series of posts by law firm partner/former hiring partner Jay Price. The New Third Year of Law School. By Jay Price I’m sure you’ve heard the old law school saying — scare you to death as a 1L, work you to death as a 2L and bore you to death as a 3L. The constants: first year can be like the Hunger Games minus the comforting song of the mockingjay; second year adds more class material, interviewing and law journals. That said, I believe third year has or should be chang
Dear Spivey: Do you think there are many schools that admit (a) nobody with both a below-their-median LSAT and a below-their-median UGPA, or (b) no both-below folks other than diverse students? Or “almost nobody” both-numbers-submedian? - Our Answer: I think every school admits some people below both medians — beyond Special Interest and URM admits. But one way to think of the percentage of these admits is by loo
Here is some more advice from Hiring Partner/Committee Member Jay Price. More advice, don’t use the same word twice in one 3 word sentence. The Quest for the Golden Ring – Advice for Summer Law Clerks, Part 1 of 2 Guest post by Jay Price My earlier blog entitled The Biglaw Devil Wears Brooks Brothers/Ann Taylor focused mainly on the importance of summers getting along with others, not taking anything for granted and being team players. With summer approaching, here are some additional tips. W
1. 103 Pages of Admissions Questions Answered [http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/103-pages-of-free-law-school-admissions-advice/] 2. Scholarship Negotiation Advice [http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/mistake-1-you-are-too-nice/] 3. Is an Early Decision Application Bump at t14 real? Some data. [http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/early-decision-at-t14-is-the-bump-real/] (*note each year this advice changes slightly based on admit patterns by law schools)
The Quest for the Golden Ring – Advice for Summer Law Clerks, Part 2 of 2 Guest post by Jay Price This is a continuation of my earlier blog [https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/summering-this-summer/] with advice for incoming summer clerk classes. Start dates are around the corner. A handful of additional tips: * Don’t Complain. You can’t always pick every project or partner you work for. Take advantage of opportunities to learn about all practice areas and don’t complain about or turn do
I wanted to share a story I read about Navy Seal Training, as I think it has meaning for those waiting to take the LSAT. The article was about Navy Seal training dropout rates (which are infamously high about 800 out of every 1000 dropout). The interesting part wasn’t the rate, it was the rate of those Seal candidates who drop out while they are actually doing the grueling work — almost 0%. They don’t quit while running or swimming or doing other activities, they quit while waiting to do these.
(Last updated 9/5/18) If you are reading this, there is strong likelihood that soon you will be making the LSAC sponsored, law school endorsed pilgrimage to one of the many hundreds of testing centers to take the LSAT. If that alone doesn’t sound intimidating, LSAC and USNWR certainly makes it so. Bring this, not that. Wear this, not that (did you know that a guy once tried to take the test in a Spider Man suit?). LSAC themselves would pretty much not be able to sneak anything into a test site,
For the record we (and many law admissions officers we know) don’t necessarily agree with the terminology “gap” — which originated to describe the space between a year off before going to undergraduate. But semantics be damned, here [http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/2015/05/14/smart-ways-to-make-the-most-of-gap-years-before-law-school] is the article. - Getting ready t
