Quote from: kill the headlights on March 25, 2008, 01:31:04 PMMatthies and somanyquestions, you guys/girls are current students. What would you guess the average starting salary is for people working in firms? I am just curious. I have been reading some recent threads on the impossibility of making it financially with a T2 starting salary. I was just curious, as you guys actually probably hear these statistics from your classmates. No, I don't hear this from my classmates, or people who actually go to law school (a few maybe, but I think its the fualt of the individual, not the school; see below for fiding job results). Its 0L's who spout this BS. I personally know people with $125k offers (about average for big law in Denver), some in the 80-100kk range, and some in the 50-80k range and some PI jobes, like PD in the 35k range. Most of the poeple I know with offers now are in the 50-80k range, with the lower salerys going to fresh from UG and the higer going to those with work experince before law school. Its all what you make of it of job search wise, the more proactive you are in your job search the more options you will have, the more reactive the less options you will have. The good jobs are out there but many are NOT advertised at all. If your in the top 30% of your class your job search is "easier" in that you can rely on OCI/mass mailing (reactive job searching, but limted to just what is advertised or offered), if not it just means you need to network (which 90% of law students really suck at)- proactive job searching, meeting pople and geting inside tips on jobs others don't know about. If you network AND have good grades, finding a good job is really easy. The problem is, at least as I have seen, many, many, if not most, law students take a very re-active route to finding a job, let the employers hold all the cards(ie pick amoung the very best that applied to thier ad/oci) and when this fails, or does not offer the results they think they deserve, they blame thier school. Going to law school, unfortunetly, does not make you real world job hunting smart. Some folks just plain suck at taking the iniative, those poeple have worse results than those that grab for the brass ring.
Matthies and somanyquestions, you guys/girls are current students. What would you guess the average starting salary is for people working in firms? I am just curious. I have been reading some recent threads on the impossibility of making it financially with a T2 starting salary. I was just curious, as you guys actually probably hear these statistics from your classmates.
Its nice to have friends already in your section when classes start.
I took DU's summer prep class when I started. Back then it was 4 weeks long, and free as I remember.
Quote from: Matthies on March 25, 2008, 07:04:28 PMI took DU's summer prep class when I started. Back then it was 4 weeks long, and free as I remember.Further confirming my fears that DU is a cash-cow. I wish money grew on trees.
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