3L with mostly A’s and B’s. I am having the worst luck trying to find work for after school and my experience working with lawyers has left me completely dejected. I cannot get an interview to save my life. I was so excited to get an externship summer after 2L with a small business and IP firm only to get yelled at on the phone a few times for not doing an assignment correctly. Mind you, I was working FOR FREE as it was a school connected externship. That made me never want to work in the law.

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Also, I have won multiple academic awards and I have no issues talking to people and generally am very personable.

Have faith, not all firms are like that! Do you have the STEM background needed for IP? Is there some flexibility for you in terms of practice area?

Maybe you aren’t getting past applicant tracking systems. Check how you are describing the work you did in that externship.

Do informational interviews—message people doing what you want to do on LinkedIn and ask for a bit of their time. J.D. 2018 here, practices for a bit and now am trying to transition to consulting, so I know how it feels to not here back time after time.

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