Did better than expected on GRE. Where should I go to grad school?

juillet
Wed, 01 Jul 2015 20:18:22 +0000

Although a large percentage of the jobs are in NYC - and maybe even most - a high-flying lawyer from a top 15 law school doesn’t have to live in NYC after college. First of all, some of the top law firms are not headquartered in New York - Baker & McKenzie, the top-ranked law firm by revenue in the country, is headquartered in Chicago. Secondly, most of these huge law firms have offices all over the world. Skadden Arps (the #2 law firm by revenue, and arguably more famous than Baker & McKenzie) has 23 offices, including U.S offices in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, and D.C.

I would think that an aspiring lawyer who wants to go to BigLaw would have to be prepared to live in a large metropolitan area, but that doesn’t have to be New York.