Law School after Banking

Despite the name, I’m an incoming analyst at a BB. How have people fared in going to law school after a short stint as an IB analyst? 1st, do you have to finish your two years? and second, is this experience looked upon favorably by law schools, maybe giving you a little nudge with your GPA and LSAT or do law schools prefer more humanities based work

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that entire thread basically rips apart the concept of going to law school after banking. I’m already committed to my banking job and am too late for starting law school this fall so might as well go to work for a year. just wanted to see how law schools perceive bankers.

 

Generally it's a positive. I know someone from my analyst class who did the same thing (applied after 2 years of banking) and got into HLS and SLS with a below average LSAT (not sure exactly what it was). You can apply whenever you want but law schools (and law firms) are pretty smart and know banking is a two year commitment so it's probably optimal to just finish your stint and then go. You'll save a little more $$ anyway and it gives you the option to consider on-cycle PE recruiting if you want to kick the can down the road a little further.

 

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