health- I’d rather not discuss my personal situation. The goal used to be to get into the top third of the class. This way you’d get a summer internship in your 2nd year, which pays around $25,000, and then they would hire you after you graduate. A starting salary for such a job is around $160,000. Now, it is not enough to get in the top third. There really is no magic number anymore. Only a select few have gotten the 160k jobs and of those even less have 2L summer internships. Most graduates are looking for any job, some may work for the DA and make approx. 55k. Some get jobs at small firms. Many have no jobs. I would advise anyone looking into going to law school to do as much research into post law school life as they do into their law school.
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