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Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:00 am

This thread is intended for Northwestern University School of Law students only. If you are not an NU student and believe that you have credited information, please identify yourself as such. With OCI having begun on August 11th, please feel free to post in this thread the names of the firms that you have received callbacks from thus far.
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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:02 am

Upon information and belief, the following firms have begun making callback offers. I will update as more information becomes available.

Allen Overy (NY)
Arnold & Porter (DC)
Baker Botts (TX)
Barrack Ferrazano (Chicago)
Bingham (Boston)
Bryan Cave (Chicago & St. Louis)
Cadwalader (NY)
Cahill
Chapman Cutler (Chicago)
Cravath
Davis Polk (NY)
Dechert (DC & NY)
Dewey (NY)
Dorsey Whitney
Fenwick (Palo Alto)
Fitzpatrick Cella (NY)
Foley Lardner (Chicago & SF)
Freshfields (NY)
Fried Frank (DC & NY)
Greenberg (Chicago & Miami)
Jackson Walker (TX)
Jenner (Chicago)
Kaye Scholer (NY)
King & Spalding
Kirkland (Chicago & NY)
K&L Gates (Chicago)
Kramer Levin (NY)
Latham (Chicago, DC, Palo Alto)
Linklaters (NY)
Locke Lord (Chicago & Houston)
Mayer Brown (Chicago)
McDermott Will (Chicago)
McDonnell Boehnen (Chicago)
McGuire Woods (Chicago)
Milbank (NY)
MoFo (DC)
OMM (Menlo Park & NY)
Orrick (SF & NY)
Quarles & Brady (Chicago?)
Paul Hastings (Chicago, DC & NY)
Paul Weiss (NY)
Ropes & Gray (Chicago, New York)
Reed Smith (Pittsburgh)
Sidley (DC)
Simpson Thacher (NY)
Skadden (LA & NY)
Steptoe & Johnson (DC)
Sullivan & Cromwell (CA & NY)
Troutman Sanders (Chicago)
V&E (Dallas & Houston)
Weil (NY)
White & Case
Wildman Harrold (Chicago)
Wilkie Farr (NY)
Wilmer Hale (Boston & NY)
Wilson & Sonsini (Palo Alto)
Winston (Chicago)
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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:46 am

3.7 GPA, looking primarily at Chicago. Zero callbacks thus far.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:05 am

Anonymous User wrote:I'll get us started. I have had 11 interviews thus far and have reeceived callbacks from the following firms:

Cahill
Milbank
Dechert
Dewey

I can also confirm from multiple sources that Sullivan & Cromwell has begun callbacks.

Otherwise, I haven't received any dings.
GPA?

Also, re: S&C calling back - is that just for N.Y. or other offices too?

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:29 am

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:3.7 GPA, looking primarily at Chicago. Zero callbacks thus far.
so thats what, median at NU?
To the anonymous poster, please re-read the very first posting in this thread. Your snarky little comment is unappreciated. A 3.7 at NU is well above the median.

To my fellow classmate, don't sweat it. You should be in very good shape. For whatever reason, Chicago firms haven't historically extended callbacks immediately after interviews and the bulk of our Chicago firms don't come on campus until next week.
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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:31 am

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:I'll get us started. I have had 11 interviews thus far and have reeceived callbacks from the following firms:

Cahill
Milbank
Dechert
Dewey

I can also confirm from multiple sources that Sullivan & Cromwell has begun callbacks.

Otherwise, I haven't received any dings.
GPA?

Also, re: S&C calling back - is that just for N.Y. or other offices too?
Top 25%. Honestly, I don't have the highest GPA, but have some other credentials that seem to fit with these firms very well.

Re: S&C, I can only confirm NYC thus far.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:54 am

Any word on DC? Heard that MoFo may have called, but haven't caught wind of anything else.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:39 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:I'll get us started. I have had 11 interviews thus far and have reeceived callbacks from the following firms:

Cahill
Milbank
Dechert
Dewey

I can also confirm from multiple sources that Sullivan & Cromwell has begun callbacks.

Otherwise, I haven't received any dings.
GPA?

Also, re: S&C calling back - is that just for N.Y. or other offices too?

Top 25%. Honestly, I don't have the highest GPA, but have some other credentials that seem to fit with these firms very well.

Re: S&C, I can only confirm NYC thus far.

Given that this is 100% anon, mind giving your actual GPA? 25% doesn't really mean much because some people think top 25% is 3.65, some people say 3.75 or any number of other guesses.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:57 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Given that this is 100% anon, mind giving your actual GPA? 25% doesn't really mean much because some people think top 25% is 3.65, some people say 3.75 or any number of other guesses.
~3.70 ... although I don't think that this had a lot to do with GPA.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:40 pm

Anonymous User wrote:I'll get us started. I have had 11 interviews thus far and have reeceived callbacks from the following firms:

Cahill
Milbank
Dechert
Dewey

I can also confirm from multiple sources that Sullivan & Cromwell has begun callbacks.

Otherwise, I haven't received any dings.
How long after your Cahill interview did you receive a callback?

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:44 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:I'll get us started. I have had 11 interviews thus far and have reeceived callbacks from the following firms:

Cahill
Milbank
Dechert
Dewey

I can also confirm from multiple sources that Sullivan & Cromwell has begun callbacks.

Otherwise, I haven't received any dings.
How long after your Cahill interview did you receive a callback?
via email ... less than 24 hours. for firm specific reasons, they were at the very top of my list going into OCI.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:55 pm

Thanks. That seems pretty unusual. Any idea if they do all their callbacks through email?

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:58 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Thanks. That seems pretty unusual. Any idea if they do all their callbacks through email?
All of the others were via phone calls. I have been reading the Columbia OCI Callback Thread and there are a few firms that have extended callbacks via emial.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 4:08 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Thanks. That seems pretty unusual. Any idea if they do all their callbacks through email?
All of the others were via phone calls. I have been reading the Columbia OCI Callback Thread and there are a few firms that have extended callbacks via emial.
I was actually just referring to Cahill's callbacks and whether they do some email and some phone. I guess it's hard to know for sure anyway.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:51 pm

clifford chance rumored, but not confirmed.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:52 pm

Cravath confirmed.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:38 pm

Got 17 interviews and have had 7 so far. I am a transfer with a 3.65/4 (not 4.33 scale like NU) and was top 10% at old school. Though I don't know how firms treat transfers :/. Zero callbacks so far but will update the post when I hear back (hopefully) from the firms.

Any past or current students know how transfers are treated?

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:10 pm

3.7-3.8, 8 interviews so far, 0 callbacks. :-/

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:33 pm

Callback from Dechert (DC) on Friday morning. Interviewed with them on Wednesday, so two days later, I guess.

Have had 5 other interviews this past week, all with Chicago or CA firms and not heard anything from those.
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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:38 pm

3.7 here, 4 interviews total, no callbacks yet.

I know someone that got a callback from Greenberg in Chicago.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:58 pm

MoFo confirmed.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:59 pm

Anonymous User wrote:3.39 GPA. Callback from Dechert (DC) on Friday morning. Interviewed with them on Wednesday, so two days later, I guess.

Have had 5 other interviews this past week, all with Chicago or CA firms and not heard anything from those.

Grats man. That is a pretty sweet callback. Is there anything that you can think of that might have led to the callback given your GPA? (Yes, I am asking if you are black.)

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:25 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:3.39 GPA. Callback from Dechert (DC) on Friday morning. Interviewed with them on Wednesday, so two days later, I guess.

Have had 5 other interviews this past week, all with Chicago or CA firms and not heard anything from those.

Grats man. That is a pretty sweet callback. Is there anything that you can think of that might have led to the callback given your GPA? (Yes, I am asking if you are black.)
No diversity of that sort here. I have a connection to the DC area in that I have extended family moving there within a few months. Otherwise... not really. I thought the interview went well, but not spectacular as my interviewer had a good poker face.

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Re: Northwestern 2010 OCI Callbacks Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:38 pm

Anonymous User wrote:I'll get us started. I have had 11 interviews thus far and have reeceived callbacks from the following firms:

Cahill
Milbank
Dechert
Dewey

I can also confirm from multiple sources that Sullivan & Cromwell has begun callbacks.

Otherwise, I haven't received any dings.
Are these all the NYC offices?

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