Not satisfied with Law, want Finance Career
Hi, am a 1L at HLS/YLS disenchanted with pursuing a career in law. I went directly to law school after undergrad at HYP and no finance-related internships.
I’d ideally like to pursue a career in private equity or consulting upon graduation. How can I get there? Any help appreciated.
Don’t have much advice here but was wondering why you wanted to switch. I’m still keeping law school as a potential thing I want to do since I’ve always been interested and can guarantee Top 10 basically
Should be a reasonable doable path to move into finance. If you look into or learn about M&A/Restructuring/Corporate law in general, it could be a good means to demonstrate interest and knowledge of the field and make a move towards banking (and later maybe move to PE etc.). The biggest question will likely be technicals, at which point you will just need to study up and learn it all. Take with a grain of salt since I’m not too familiar with the possible pathway.
I am someone who went straight from undergrad business school to Wisconsin for law school and got a fortune 500 corp dev role straight out of law school (I actually started two months before I graduated).
The problem you’ll have is the lack of finance experience. Like for me, for example, when I was applying for finance roles for after law school, I already had (i) three undergraduate business degrees, (ii) I was a CPA, and (iii) I had previous finance internships at a hedge fund, in corp dev, and at PwC. I could demonstrate both a competence and an interest.
If you want to get into a front office finance role the best way to get it would likely be going big law in an M&A or securities practice and then moving to a bank before you make partner at the law firm
MBB is very doable from HLS/YLS just keep an eye out for advanced degree recruiting events / timelines
A couple things here:
- Law, PE and Consulting are fairly different paths. Do you actually want something else or just feeling beaten down by arguably the hardest school year of your life?
- What's the point of giving up time and money for 2 1/2 more years if you don't want to be a lawyer? Unless you're looking for some legal function in PE/Consulting, why wouldn't you use the next 2 years to get an MBA to put you in a better position to break in?
I’m a 2L at one of those schools recruiting for IB rn. I’ve been told pretty explicitly that KJD’s are not much desired for post-MBA associate roles, so maybe reach out to banks about that and summer analyst roles for 2L summer.
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