Hi all I'm currently a JD at a T25 law school. I have a 3.75 gpa and I'll be working this summer for the top law firm in a regional market (think an equivalent to Stifel/PJ) on mainly private equity/lower middle market acquisitions. I targeted this market because if I end up a lawyer I'd want to end up here. This past summer I worked for a Fortune 500 in Corp Dev out of my regional market.
I'm posting because I'm interested in what I should be doing to get into finance recruiting. Long term I want to get back into the above regional market working for a middle market PE firm or the corp dev group of one of the F500s present there. I want to get a strong finance or operating base before I go back. The backgrounds of the people in the firms/companies I'd be interested in have banking/consulting experience and almost none have legal experience.
Some weak points about my application will be low (2.4) undergrad grades and no FT work experience.
Some stronger points, 760 GMAT, CFA Level 2 Candidate (taking 2 over the summer), really involved in leadership positions off campus, very extroverted.
I figure there are three/four main routes:
1. Try and recruit for NY law firms and focus on lateraling to banks/MBB after 2 years as an associate.
1a. As an offshoot of this, take a summer offer (firm has 100% offer rates) and try and lateral from there/maybe just be a lawyer forever.
2. Do a JD/MBA with my b-school, work as a summer intern in consulting/banking and hope for a FT offer.
3. Do full-time MBA and undergrad recruiting in the fall and hope I can land an analyst/MBA gig. (I know MBB/a few banks recruit JD's as associates with or w/o WE but this is normally for Summer Associate gigs)
Thoughts? I'm graduating debt free currently but if I get an MBA it'll cost me 100k or so in debt. I'm really regretting not transferring/skipping law recruiting for mba type recruiting but I dug myself into this pit.
