How do you get experience when no one will hire you? I wouldn’t mind hanging a shingle but I feel it’d be irresponsible to do so with no experience. Unlike all of my classmates, I never landed an internship/externship in law school - had only one interview. I was a PT law student, came from a CS background, and worked in IT throughout law school. I passed the bar exam on my first try (Oct 2020) and have only had a couple interviews out of the hundreds of applications I sent out. Any suggestions?

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It’s tough when you didn’t do internships/externships during school, but I’d suggest thinking outside of working at a firm to begin with so you can get some stuff on your resume. If you have experience in IT, see if anywhere is looking for an in-house or counsel position in a related field and leverage your “insider knowledge” of the industry to get a job with counsel or contracts in the title, even if it’s something like contracts manager to begin with. That position will likely involve some sort of contract review and negotiation. You can trade up from there. And be prepared to not make a ton of money for a couple years. NGL it’s a rough way to start, but without experience it’s either that or something not in the legal field unless you can find a solo or small firm that needs some help on a contract basis.

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