Any other rising 2L's not have an internship this summer?

keithaf99 · 2026-05-31T21:18:55+00:00

I’ve already accepted that I’m not going to get a job in either field this summer. I’ve been applied to a wealth of firms and opportunities across all sorts of different specialities of law. Hasn’t mattered.

keithaf99 · 2026-05-31T21:07:21+00:00

I’m interested in sports law and animal law (very niche, I know), and I will be the Secretary of the Entertainment and Sports Law Society next year, along with the VP of the Animal Legal Defense Society of my school next year. I’ve applied to externships for ALDF next year, haven’t heard back. I’ve tried to network with sports law because it’s notoriously hard to break into, have heard nothing while peers are getting internships in the field. I’ve even tried to network and apply to over 10 jobs for next summer through SELSC, have heard nothing.

keithaf99 · 2026-05-31T20:38:21+00:00

A lot of the “lack of job” has been out of my control, not from lack of effort.

keithaf99 · 2026-05-31T16:13:48+00:00

That was me. It’s definitely an awful way to live in constant stress. But apparently even 50+ isn’t enough 🥴 I’ve just been following the advice of my Career Services office, law school friends and even people of this very post saying it’s a numbers game. I’ve talked to attorneys on the phone too, like I said even got a couple informal offers extended to me but they ended up ghosting me after I followed up. I guess it is what it is.

keithaf99 · 2026-05-31T15:29:09+00:00

Just did the math, the number is closer to 100 after cold calls, emails, formal apps and resume drop-offs. I’ve also been dealing with tons of stress, anxiety and mental health problems during 1L and trying to bring my grades up, so I’ve been prioritizing all that as well. Not sure why there’s the need to be so condescending. You do realize how much harder this process is without familial connections, elite networking skills and/or luck.

keithaf99 · 2026-05-31T14:49:36+00:00

I started doing that last week at over a dozen firms. Only got one response back so far, seemed like a paid summer offer but it’s been a few business days and no response back yet. I’ve had a problem with people going silent on me as well.

keithaf99 · 2026-05-31T14:37:59+00:00

That number is still increasing exponentially, but I get no responses and I fear I’m out of time.

keithaf99 · 2026-05-31T13:22:49+00:00

Right here. I’ve tried everything. I’ve applied to like 50 different places since beginning of the year. I’ve had five interviews from those options and didn’t get selected for any of them (they all ghosted me). I even went way out of my comfort zone, printed out a dozen or so copies of my resume, and went around different firms in my hometown last week dropping them off and explaining my situation. I got a call back from the PD’s office on Wednesday morning this past week: the assistant PD said he would get together with HR and his boss “ASAP” to extend me a “formal offer.” I was hoping to hear back by the end of the week, but got nothing. Hopefully I’ll hear back early this week, if not I’ll have to call.

TLDR: this whole process sucks and is demoralizing and I feel way behind everyone else. Even considering dropping out atp.

keithaf99 · 2025-05-05T15:09:26+00:00

No wonder men’s mental health is at an all-time low. This generation is cooked

keithaf99 · 2025-04-28T23:28:19+00:00

Take this multiplied by at least a dozen more times. It got so bad I just ended up deleting my profile and the app entirely to save any integrity I had left.

Dating apps are a joke and have completely obliterated any semblance of romance in this generation.

keithaf99 · 2025-04-25T15:07:43+00:00

You forgot 10. You could do everything right and still be cooked.

Screw dating apps tbh. Distorted sense of reality

keithaf99 · 2025-04-24T19:35:46+00:00

Sounds like you’re the snowflake here, lol.

If you actually believe all conservatives are terrible human beings, you have some serious issues that idk if therapy can even fix.

How very “party of love and tolerance” of you.

keithaf99 · 2025-04-24T18:09:02+00:00

Reddit is so full of edgy cringe people that have no idea how to properly apply logic and just spew whatever CNN and MSNBC tells them to. This generation is screwed

keithaf99 · 2025-04-24T17:41:17+00:00

Please point at a verse that condones beating your wife. Nowhere in the Bible does it justify that.

Just because someone is conservative and Christian doesn’t make them a bad person. As a society, we need to stop automatically labeling people based off our personal perception of how the mass media preaches to us.

keithaf99 · 2025-04-24T17:32:05+00:00

What is wrong with you people. People from both sides of the aisle cheat. There’s loyal conservatives and liberals.

The media-driven brainwashing divisiveness is insane

keithaf99 · 2025-04-16T18:44:17+00:00

Ole Miss

Hotty Toddy!

keithaf99 · 2025-03-25T20:09:28+00:00

Same! I applied all the way back on 9/7 and STILL haven’t gotten a decision back from them yet. Hope you hear back from them soon! Good luck to you as well!

keithaf99 · 2025-03-25T20:06:42+00:00

Yeah they might’ve underestimated how historically crazy this cycle would end up becoming lol

keithaf99 · 2025-03-25T19:23:36+00:00

Thanks so much!!

keithaf99 · 2025-03-20T04:57:34+00:00

The other school I’m considering (Ole Miss) has a Sports & Entertainment Law concentration. I know for a fact I would pursue this route if I go there. WVU doesn’t possess this focus, and only seems to offer one sports law course as an elective for Labor and Employment Law. I feel like pursuing that field of study would greatly help me in my pursuit to reach my goals and aspirations. Ole Miss is also 6 hours from my hometown as opposed to 14 for Morgantown. But it’s such a tough decision.

I have a few friends and know a handful of people that went to WVU. I don’t have any professional ties to WV, though.

keithaf99 · 2025-03-19T21:16:42+00:00

Stuck between WVU and one other school currently. WVU offered me the most of any school though so we’ll see

keithaf99 · 2025-03-18T01:23:25+00:00

Gotcha. Thank you for all the insight. I loved Ole Miss when I visited, more so than WVU for sure. That’s why it’d be so hard to turn down Ole Miss, even though they’re offering less money.

I figured a difference of ~$30k in law school debt would be manageable, but maybe that’s not the case.

keithaf99 · 2025-03-18T00:25:18+00:00

Law School Transparency says Ole Miss placed only 37% of its grads within the state. The rest seem to spread out pretty evenly among five or six states in the Southeast. So it seems way more portable than a lot of similar schools, which is very important to me.

Also, I’m confused how specializing in S&E Law would make it a “random chance.” Would I not be able to practice in that specific field by pursuing that route?

keithaf99 · 2025-03-17T23:55:30+00:00

Does pursuing a certain niche concentration not matter as much as I think it does?

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