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Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008
Just locked down a summer position at the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office. It was promised to me in February if I didn't get the other position I applied for. Finally got her to follow through on it.

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Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008

Incredulous Red posted:


See you there brosef. I'm starting 6/1
Sweet, which department? I start 6/16 - Soonest I could get a fingerprint appointment.

nm posted:

Criminal or civil?

Academy of Justice - the training division for the City Attorney's Office.

Glowing Red Sign fucked around with this message at 07:49 on May 24, 2010

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008

Incredulous Red posted:

Got PMs? :ninja:

Afraid not. My IM is in my profile, though.

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008
Schedule of classes just went up - No idea what to take.

Aside from not loading up on "Law and ______" courses, does it really matter what I take? I'm signed up for the Business Law specialization, but I'm fully aware that all it will accomplish is earning a few extra words on my diploma. Not sure I want to go through with it, but not sure that I don't want to, either.

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008

Copernic posted:

UCLAw didn't want anyone to put their class rank on their resume, I think due to socialism.

Of course, anyone who would actually follow one of these rules after graduating from law school is not worth hiring.

Did they even give you your rank? I haven't seen ranks or a mean/median anywhere.

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008
Has anyone in LA heard of either of these firms, or this judge?

Bonnie, Bridges, Mueller, O’Keefe & Nichols

Matison, Margolese, & Korn

The Hon. Kevin C. Brazile, Dept. 20 at Stanley Mosk Courthouse

They'll each be supervising me during a fellowship, so I thought perhaps someone who knows LA might be able to tell me about them.

Glowing Red Sign fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Aug 15, 2012

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008
:smugdog: CA Bar passed smug smug smug :smugdog:

Oh, you mean I'm still just a law grad without real training, skills, or a permanent job? Crap.

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008

nm posted:

I was wondering why the CA attorney search was down. Congrats.
I got my first full time, permanent (as opposed to temp positions) position almost exactly 2 years after I passed. Good luck!


Thanks!

How did your employer consider those temp positions when hiring you? I've got some leads for temporary positions, but I don't know if anyone will think of those as actual work experience.

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008
I'm looking at the fees for admission to Central District CA and Ninth Circuit. Do either of those have to be paid for again later, like the annual CA Bar dues?

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008

nm posted:

You need some higher standards here, YLS, SLS, or maybe top 5% of Harvard.

Harvard is pretty much the new standard for TTT.

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008

Mons Hubris posted:

I think there's some truth to the specialization argument. I got my job now solely because I concentrated in (and got an LLM in) agricultural law. Granted I had some connections from my internships that helped me get the first interview, but I'm 100% I would not be in the job I have without hyper-specialization.

Did your choice of school contribute to it at all?

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008
Can anyone tell me what a District Attorney actually does? I mean the elected official, not the deputies who actually prosecute the cases.

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008

Roger_Mudd posted:

Google "Prosecutorial discression".

So, they set policy for the prosecutors who work for them? Anything else?

Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008

HolySwissCheese posted:

Now that I am a government lawyer, I need this to exist until at least Jan 2024 at minimum, thanks in advance Congress. This thread should start an issue PAC to support pro-IBR candidates in primary battles.

If only you had a donor base that wasn't "debt-ridden, low salaried recent grads."

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Glowing Red Sign
Oct 26, 2008

Abugadu posted:

Of the people that come out, about half go back to the states after a year, and half stick around awhile, working at the local AG's or going to a local firm if they take the bar. It is tougher to do job interviews when you're out here for stateside jobs due to the time difference and the whole 'not being there' aspect. Of the last three that went back, one is working for his dad's firm, one is Biglaw and one is unemployed. Of course there are details about those that mitigate, but I'm working with a small sample size.

How hard have the people who came out found it to adjust to the locale? Clerking sounds great, the pay sounds fine at that cost of living, but the location gives me pause.

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