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2. Do not let the stress lead you into smoking or drinking. You're going to be in this profession for 30+ years. This cannot be the way you cope.
If you do not have that sort of conviction, do at least a couple of years at a Firm so you can move laterally 5-7 years down the line if litigation is not working out for you.
Equally important is to figure out the area of practice since litigation is no longer just civil-criminal law.
for HSF Kramer, I received an email that, I have passed their deadline and my application will now be reviewed.
What are the PPO chances?
Also, any thing else I should do except cold mailing the firm in the meantime?
Keep your head high and keep grinding. There'll be tons of vacancies across T1s in the coming few months, you'll land a better opportunity for sure. Best of luck!
Touchstone internship application form doesnt have the location.
The service itself is not defined anywhere, nor is the subscription model aside from "we will charge you a subscription" – nothing on renewal or cancellation. More on subscription payments, their privacy policy mentions they will directly store your credit/debit card info – a HUGE red flag since they definitely don't have PCI-DSS compliance nor do they seem savvy enough to set up a third-party payment gateway (else why mention you're storing this information?).
They also seem to be collecting WAY too much information (IP, browser details, device ID, profiles, websites visited, search terms, mobile carrier, location data, public sharing) – this is on top of the personal details they collect on signup. Either they don't collect all of this and have an oddly crappy privacy policy, or they do collect it and are practically running spyware in the name of "training young lawyers".
They certainly do have an oddly crappy privacy policy though, as it starts with a passive consent clause that's
Also their use of information even mentions: "personally identifiable information will no longer be treated as sensitive"???
Lastly, if it wasn't clear enough already, their information sharing policy makes it very clear they're just collecting this information to sell it to advertisers. It even goes so far to mention "For the advertisements, the advertisers need to study their audience and their needs and so the information sharing becomes necessary". Imagine asking young legal students and professionals to pay a subscription for a service where they are the product.
It is genuinely disappointing to see such subpar legal work from a "legal influencer". I hope this debacle makes it clear that the ones focused on building a personal brand on social media in this field are typically doing it because their work won't build that brand.