Being a lawyer in Chicago - top Chicago firms?

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<p>Does anyone know about top Chicago firms? Do they pull mainly from UChicago and NW? Are their hiring practices similar to Wachtell/Crevath in the 145K range?</p>

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<p>Going rate for new attorneys in top Chicago firms is in the $135,000 range. They draw from law schools across the nation including UChicago, NW, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Mich, Ill., Columbia and other high ranked. Top firms that pay those amounts include Sidley Austin, Kirkland & Ellis, Jenner & Block, Mayer Brown & Rowe, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Baker & MacKenzie, Winston & Strawn and some other large firms, and also includes some high-powered mid-size firms like Grippo & Elden. All have national and many international practices.</p>

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<p>Get into the law schools, and then worry.</p>

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<p>./eyeroll@nspeds</p>

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<p>You are now a junior, neverborn. You have no idea how well you will do on the LSAT, or what law school will accept you. I would think that those are important factors to worry about than, say, top Chicago law firms. Such concerns are marginally better than the posts by prepubescent high school graduates wondering if they can be accepted at Harvard Law.</p>

<p>Edit: I have no grounds on which to tell you what you ought to worry about, though a chortle is always due when such worries are clearly misplaced.</p>

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<p>They are more important factors. However, I'm obsessive/compulsive about stuff <em>and</em> I'm extremely bored. It's Sunday night in a town where there's nothing to do on Friday night. When I idly wonder about something, I idly wonder about something, and find the answer. Second semester of freshman year I was plotting about how I was going to make it into UChicago. =)</p>

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<p>Oh, okay. Yeah, I do that all the time. Never mind.</p>

<p>Edit: And yes, I am being completely serious.</p>

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<p>And besides, no one thought I should even apply to UChicago. ;)</p>