Post by kellbell191 on Jul 26, 2012 20:15:28 GMT -5
What do you want to practice? A lot of the good public interest stuff doesn't hire until you've passed, everyone I know who waited for results to do public interest got great jobs.
The best tips I got were to look in the back of the state bar publication for their classifieds and to join the local bar group. I also just started asking people in my practice area to coffee and asking them what advice they would give someone in my position. I met with maybe twenty people total, everyone kept putting in a good word with someone else and setting me up on more coffee dates. I got my first job through a bar publication ad, second job I found on a government website but someone I met networking had already told my boss that he had to hire me. Unsolicited referral!
Good luck!!! It does get so much easier to get a job once you've sat.
The bar is one unholy bitch. I annoyed the crap out of everyone on this baord when I was studying for it :-)
And the market out there for new attorneys is the biggest pile of suck, ever. Networking is key, but be prepared for a long search. I was one of the lucky ones in my section in that I was still clerking when I took the bar, and they eventually hired me, but I'm two years out from my swearing-in and it took some in my class with much better grades and credentials over a year to find steady work. You will find something, and you will enjoy it, but patience is a virtue :-)