DPW Associates Taking Q's Forum

[Anonymous User]

What is the cost of your premium on DPW's HDHP plan as a single person or a family?

$736 per month for primary + spouse. OOP max is $3.5/person. In-network only plan.

[Anonymous User]

For lit and getting slotted into WC/Civil/Antitrust (which I think happens fourth or fifth year right?). How does that work. Is it like super competitive? Is it something you basically prep for at the beginning of your second year and start specializing. Or, is it really a thing where you are a generalist junior up and until you get slotted? Apologize if my information on any of this is wrong I'm not a current associate, but will be in 2025.

You specialize beginning in your 4th year. It isn't that competitive. IP lit and antitrust are smaller than white collar and civil lit (which includes appellate work and bankruptcy lit) and there is more wiggle room between civil lit and white collar than you might think -- plenty of people who are slotted in one subgroup do work in the other subgroup.

[Anonymous User]

For lit and getting slotted into WC/Civil/Antitrust (which I think happens fourth or fifth year right?). How does that work. Is it like super competitive? Is it something you basically prep for at the beginning of your second year and start specializing. Or, is it really a thing where you are a generalist junior up and until you get slotted? Apologize if my information on any of this is wrong I'm not a current associate, but will be in 2025.

You specialize beginning in your 4th year. It isn't that competitive. IP lit and antitrust are smaller than white collar and civil lit (which includes appellate work and bankruptcy lit) and there is more wiggle room between civil lit and white collar than you might think -- plenty of people who are slotted in one subgroup do work in the other subgroup.

How does clerkship credit play into this. If you come in as a third year because of two, do you only get one year to pick?

[Anonymous User]

Yes -- that is correct.