[quote=spdrun]If you can graduate with little/no debt and have attorney recs, what’s wrong with going of-counsel for a small firm or two, as well as soliciting clients of your own soon after passing the bar?[/quote]
spdrun, in CA, the “of counsel” attorneys (who simply lend their [prestigious] names to a firm’s stationery, are usually current or former partners of a firm (now “retired”), who only “show up” when the firm needs counsel on certain subjects in certain cases. They also “counsel” other attorneys in the firm by phone.
In SD, the “of counsel” attorneys are overwhelmingly 70+ years old.
