throwawaylaw

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   by throwawaylaw 15y ago

   That's rough dude. The best I can say is at least you have relatively secure and decent-paying employment at the end of the road, but I know that isn't much consolation.
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   by throwawaylaw 15y ago

   This is a good way of approaching the situation. Thanks.
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   by throwawaylaw 15y ago

   So how do I do this?
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   by throwawaylaw 15y ago

   Not really no. In-house counsel are hired pretty much exclusively from the ranks of associates at firms with several years experience. I guess most big companies don't like to pay and build out the capacity to to develop in-house legal tale
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   by throwawaylaw 15y ago

   Thanks for your comments. Overwhelmingly majority of my loans are either federal, or a type of loan (GradPLUS) which you can consolidate with federal and get debt forgiveness on. So yeah I've factored IBR into my plans, and might do public
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   by throwawaylaw 15y ago

   Thanks for your comments. I'll comment on joining the legal profession at the entry level and on public interest law. How legal hiring works at big law schools is this: you go through your first year and get your grades. At the beginning of
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   by throwawaylaw 15y ago

   2 and 3 are interesting, thanks. As to 1 (JAG) I've looked into it extensively. Every branch except Army is insanely competitive and Army is just super-competitive. I might have a decent shot at Army though, but decided that it wasn't for m
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   by throwawaylaw 15y ago

   yeah this is a good point, thanks.
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   by throwawaylaw 15y ago

   Oh I had a plan it just hit the skids when I didn't get any offers from law firms...I think it was a bad plan from the get-go though. I'm not sure what I would do. I have an idea or two for an app but I need to develop the coding skills. I
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    by throwawaylaw 15y ago

    I have lots of friends going into patent law. But most of them have PhDs in the hard sciences and if you look at job listings they tend to want that. Oh and don't worry about more debt, I don't think that's possible at this point :)
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    by throwawaylaw 15y ago

    Yeah I'm going to be on IBR no matter what, it's the only way I won't go into default. My loans are all mixed but a good chunk of them are at the GradPLUS rate which is 8.5%.
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    Ask HN: 200k student debt, degrees not very useful. What to do?

    17 points by throwawaylaw 15y ago|32 comments