Re: Ask Noah About First Year of Law School, Getting inTop 10%, Law Re
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Noah,
Care to talk about your experience at the VC (Saw in EDF) and how it will help your career? It seems rather irrelevant to someone who wants to go into big law but I am curious to find you wanting to expand your horizon (which is great because VC is hot as heck).
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Where I work there are a few lawyers, an IP lawyer, accountant, and then various assistants and paralegals. It is all transactional deals, and I spend most of my day drafting or reviewing contracts, leases, venture capital deals, etc. The investment group is based out of Asia, and there are tons of international deals going down, so I'm frequently on the phone with people from India, Amsterdam, Israel, Monaco, etc. Most of the investments are in biotech, although we do a little bit of everything.
It's useful because I am constantly drafting memos (albeit internal ones), drafting and editing contracts, etc.
Not very useful for my interest in litigation, but it pays well for a 1L job, and there are plenty of people working for free this summer.
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