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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps look into government financial industry regularoty agency? I'm thinking Securities Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, etc.

Another direction to explore might be international development work through places like World Bank and IFC which often list prior financial sector background and law degree as a requirement for some of the technical positions. [/quote]

Idk about fdic but you can't realistically get in these other places even with honors from Baltimore grad. They turn away T14 or ivy law grads, former biglaw associates all the time. Of course even those with years of experience and one who has all of that. Even staff attorney positions are hard to come by. Baltimore law grad could get hired maybe in the boom times of yesteryears. I know of one that successfully did who now would be able to at his firm.

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I meant the being able to get hired as a staff attorney during boom times and that the Baltimore grad I know would not be able to get his staff atty position in 2014 had he not joined in 2006-7. [/quote]

OP, this is not true.  I went to a second tier school, as did my boss and just about everyone in my office.  We are not impressed by law schools, becuase we know that even non-ivy grads can do good work.[/quote]

I'd add on to this that many in law firms and corporate positions know NOT to hire ivy-league lawyers (Harvard, especially at my company!). Some of these people too often have no common sense.  That lack of common sense (an under appreciated legal skill) combined with a certain arrogance of "I went to Harvard" is a killer.  The CEO at the large publicly traded company I work for has told our legal department to not hire any Harvard law grads for this reason.  Too often, we've hired these folks only to have them come in with a sense of entitlement and fail to realize their work has real-world practical implications (b/c it is a company). [/quote]

The background of almost every in-house counsel that I have worked with has been T-14 law school and several years at a top law firm (Skadden, Cravath, etc.).  That's not to say this is true at every company (particularly smaller companie) but top law school grads are definitely well represented in in-house positions.  I do agree that a lot of Harvard grads can be annoying dbags though.[/quote]

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