<p>Don’t do Stern unless you are sure that you can make the top 10% or get a GPA of 3.85+. If you end up with a bad GPA, your dream of corporate law would vaporize somewhat there on the spot because that decreases the chances of you getting into a law school with strong ties to finance oriented law firms (Davis Polk, Wachtell, etc.). That being said, you don’t need a strong background in finance to do corporate law. I know a lot of history majors, English majors, science majors from Ivies, Stanford & MIT who ended up going into corporate tax law, bankruptcy law, M&A, etc. after getting JD’s from YHS, Columbia, NYU, UChicago, and Berkeley.</p>