Law School - Investment Banking Resume Question

CRE Captcha raptcha:

CRE, that is an ok LSAT question, very thought out though and and would definitely make potential law students angry. You should definitely send it to LSAC! Answer is E though, wasn't too hard.

Thanks for the help guys.

hah, if you never read Leveraged Sellout or Damn, It Feels Good to be a Banker, you really need to

I just saw the big law one, and it is pretty much spot on. Except the kids that get Sull Crom usually "Love The Law!!"

Mr. Collingsworth

Have you thought about going into biglaw first, hustling a few years in an M&A/cap markets practice and lateraling over?

Otherwis e, what's your "story" for why ibanking now after 3 years of law school?

That ship has fortunately sailed. Big law hiring takes place after your 1L year and if you don't work at a firm, you aren't going to work at a firm 99% of the time. I split my summer between prosecution and a finance gig at an IM shop. Would have done IM, but the place I was at had its own problems and my boss jumped ship before I accepted an offer

I am still crafting a good story for why I went to law school. In reality its because I was a business school UG, graduating in 2009, and there were just no jobs for a kid with mediocre grades and no connections and I did well enough on the LSAT to get me into a T-10 school. I went to law school and absolutely hated it. Stuck it out after getting decent experience and using law school as a way to take finance classes at the business school and get finance experience while in school.

I know BB's are probably out, but hoping that I meet someone at a smaller place that acknowledges my work ethic and passion for finance and gives me a shot.

Hegel

Lol, getting into law school and not liking it with the sole purpose of scoring a finance job without even trying the equally lucrative law route has to be one of the worst academic decision you could have made, I mean why waste the money, the effort (law school is hard) and the time? I can understand getting another bachelor instead or a master's or finding some base job and then apply to business schools, but really, law without the right mindset? It's like doing med school but you're hemophobic and really don't want to become a doctor.
Dude, follow your passions, and study what you want, don't build yourself around a job, in the long run nobody succeeds or is truly happy by doing that. Considering we might as well flip burgers, I mean if McD raised the wages, they'd be earning more than we do on hourly basis. What you lack is not passion or ethic, I'm sure you can craft a good story and even BB would get it, but how can you justify that to yourself, it's a lack of logic and self preservation what I see, had you liked it you would have been ok, but you didn't, you forced yourself to do something you weren't keen on, I imagine how little you might have gained, because let's be real, you might stomach the food you don't like, but you're never going to savour the taste. What if you interviewer gets notice you didn't like law school at all? In that instant your advantage (because a JD is clearly an advantage over the average UG) will be nullified, what sets you apart is gonna be a malus. Anyway these are my 2 cents, I'm a moron so don't take me too seriously.
Good luck bro, imo just be yourself.

Good post, trust me when I say I didn't go to law school to break into finance. In fact, I didn't want to go into law school at all, but after getting into a top school the pressure builds big time when you have seemingly no other alternatives other than living in your parents basement and working as a bartender or waiter for another 3 years. Like in poker though, after 1.5 years in law school you are "pot committed" and rather than graduate with $120K of debt and nothing to show, I decided to stick it out and at least get a degree from a top school. I got lucky and will be doing consulting instead, which is much more my style and they value the intangibles I bring to the table. Plus it gives me the ability to multi-task and learn a ton, which is what I like doing anyways outside of the classroom. But, I am still looking to transition to finance over the next few years because it is by far the most interesting thing to me (other than sports, music, and space).