Harvard Law grad -- ask me anything

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My cousin went to UCLA and is admitted in California and Washington State. She is known to be a prima Donna and from what we hear, has quit a job already with a small firm in CA because she didn't like the other workers and is inflating her current job which we think is actually document review.

She graduated in 2012 and has a ton of student loan debt, is living with a boyfriend who pays her bills and is trying to get more $$ out of her grandparents.

Is it really that hard to get a job?

If you graduated from ucla law in 2012, yes, it is hard to get a job.

Harvard, they mostly have jobs.

Thank you. It is bizarre to us hearing about her struggles since her family exaggerates her jobs (she was what sounded like an intern for a judge after graduation and they told everyone she was an assistant Judge, not an assistant to a judge).
Is she totally screwed and is document review an actual lawyer job?

Her struggles are typical for law school grads right now who didn't graduate from a top five school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not even sure what you have to contribute here. You went to HLS, ok.

right. my question was going to be “Why do you think anyone cares?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My cousin went to UCLA and is admitted in California and Washington State. She is known to be a prima Donna and from what we hear, has quit a job already with a small firm in CA because she didn't like the other workers and is inflating her current job which we think is actually document review.

She graduated in 2012 and has a ton of student loan debt, is living with a boyfriend who pays her bills and is trying to get more $$ out of her grandparents.

Is it really that hard to get a job?

If you graduated from ucla law in 2012, yes, it is hard to get a job.

Harvard, they mostly have jobs.

Thank you. It is bizarre to us hearing about her struggles since her family exaggerates her jobs (she was what sounded like an intern for a judge after graduation and they told everyone she was an assistant Judge, not an assistant to a judge).
Is she totally screwed and is document review an actual lawyer job?

Not OP, but it sounds like she was a law clerk for a judge, which typically is a 1-2 year job you have after law school. Document review is definitely a lawyer job, although a second-tier rather uninteresting one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not even sure what you have to contribute here. You went to HLS, ok.

right. my question was going to be “Why do you think anyone cares?"

+1

[Anonymous]

Ok Mr/Ms. Harvard Law Grad...I'll bite on this one.....tell us what you recommend that an entering college freshman next fall (i.e., class of 2019) should do then and over their next four years in order to get into Harvard Law....(obviously my question is premised on the fact that the student wants law as a career).

Tell us what you think!

[Anonymous]

I went to HLS as well, so what? I bet there are a number of us on here.

[Anonymous]

What kind of law do practice? I have a will question. Or is not that kind of AMA

[Anonymous]

Me too. Big deal. What year?

[Anonymous]

Did any of you HLS grads study Updog?

[Anonymous]

YLS '08 here, do you envy me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did any of you HLS grads study Updog?

Hey, hey. What's up, dawg?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:do you know Matt Damon?

Matt Damon never went to Harvard Law.

-not OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My cousin went to UCLA and is admitted in California and Washington State. She is known to be a prima Donna and from what we hear, has quit a job already with a small firm in CA because she didn't like the other workers and is inflating her current job which we think is actually document review.

She graduated in 2012 and has a ton of student loan debt, is living with a boyfriend who pays her bills and is trying to get more $$ out of her grandparents.

Is it really that hard to get a job?

If you graduated from ucla law in 2012, yes, it is hard to get a job.

Harvard, they mostly have jobs.

Thank you. It is bizarre to us hearing about her struggles since her family exaggerates her jobs (she was what sounded like an intern for a judge after graduation and they told everyone she was an assistant Judge, not an assistant to a judge).
Is she totally screwed and is document review an actual lawyer job?

Not OP, but it sounds like she was a law clerk for a judge, which typically is a 1-2 year job you have after law school. Document review is definitely a lawyer job, although a second-tier rather uninteresting one.

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Thank you again. She only did the assistant to the judge thing for a couple months. One more thing, does a document review lawyer get paid more than, say, a paralegal?

[Anonymous]

Harvard is a fine law school. Don't feel bad you didn't go to Yale.

Signed,
YLS grad

[Anonymous]

Or Med school. Savings lives!