Posts Tagged ‘New York City’
Back to New York City: How I Came Full Circle
by Scott Edward Walker on February 2nd, 2011Background
I began my legal career as a corporate associate at two major law firms in New York City. After nearly eight years, however, I realized I wanted to spend the rest of my life helping entrepreneurs (like my father). I also saw a big problem in the legal marketplace — i.e., that the big-firm template generally doesn’t work for entrepreneurs and startups. Accordingly, in 2005, I moved to California — the land of the entrepreneurs — to try to solve this problem and launched Walker Corporate Law.
What’s It Like Working at a Major New York City Law Firm?
by Scott Edward Walker on January 26th, 2011Introduction
About once a week, I receive an email or phone call from a law school student asking for career advice and specifically inquiring what it’s like working at a major New York City law firm (as I did for nearly eight years). I discuss below the good, the bad and the ugly.