I have offers at Gordon Rees and Lewis Brisbois in the L&E department in NYC. Ik they get a bad rep for ID. Same hold true for L&E? I’ve been desperately trying to break into the practice area since I graduated and this is the first time I’ve actually ever got any offers to get in.

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If your goal is L&E and you don’t have prior experience, ID firms are a good stepping stone. You’ll get a lot of experience and can then try to move up the ladder to a better firm or one of the Big 4.

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Why do you say that

If this is your first and only offer, then it’s a no brainer. Get your experience and leave after a few years if you don’t like the firm. Getting the experience in the first place is crucial.

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Thanks

GR > LBBS

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I worked at Gordon Rees for 2 years and enjoyed it overall- nice people and helped me get into L&E. Now have done exclusively employment law at 2 other firms and the ID experience was really helpful because it pushed so much more advanced work to junior associates- I entered big law with more litigation skills than really anyone else at my level because of it.

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Gives me hope, thanks

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If you plan to have kids, double check the parental leave policy at LB. The one at GR sucks.

Everything sucks at LBBS.

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Do you have any type of background in employment law already? Or just regular insurance defense?

I’m currently a plaintiffs pi attorney so zero exp

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