Harvard Law grad -- ask me anything

[Anonymous]

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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?

The judge fired her. Or she quit. But either way, THAT is what's happening her ability to get another real job. And yes, a doc review lawyer is paid more than a paralegal.

[Anonymous]

Hypothetically, if I tried to kill my boss eleven years ago, wasn't caught, still work for the company and he is still in a coma, does the statute of limitations apply for criminal charges if I tell my co-workers? Can I be fired? Does this change if he passes away? Does the cause of death matter at this point?

This is all a hypothetical question, like I said. But I'd really like to get your opinion.

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HLS grad, where are you?

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No one cares.

[Anonymous]

Apparently not.

[Anonymous]

Did you get in to Yale?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:do you know Matt Damon?

Matt Damon never went to Harvard Law.

-not OP

How do you them THEM apples?!

[Anonymous]

Does a full time college student have to pay income tax on babysitting jobs?

[Anonymous]

Where did you go to undergrad? Are you in big law now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:do you know Matt Damon?

Matt Damon never went to Harvard Law.

-not OP

How do you them THEM apples?!

At least someone got it

[Anonymous]

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

Signed,
YLS grad

Big law partner here (who didn't go to either law school but was a Yale undergrad.) We don't recruit from Yale anymore because we have had so many summers from there flame out. We have had pretty good luck with our summers from Harvard, with a few mistakes along the way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Signed,
YLS grad

Big law partner here (who didn't go to either law school but was a Yale undergrad.) We don't recruit from Yale anymore because we have had so many summers from there flame out. We have had pretty good luck with our summers from Harvard, with a few mistakes along the way.

Yeah, we're really hurting as a result of that. Guess I'll just go take an appellate clerkship instead, pardon me while I cry into my DOJ Honors Program lanyard.

--YLS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:do you know Matt Damon?

No but I saw them filming Good Will Hunting when I was there. -- HLS '97

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where did you go to undergrad? Are you in big law now?

I'm the '97 grad. I went to a mediocre undergrad. I only applied to one school because my parents convinced me it didn't matter where you went undergrad (ha! still making up for that now, thanks guys) and I had tuition remission at that school. I'm not in big law now, but did a short stint at a firm after my clerkship then went into govt., which I stupidly left a couple years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

'97 here. I really don't think there is anything you can do, other than get good grades and crush the LSATs.