Re: Post Your Bidlists Here for Critique, Consolation & Caveats
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:21 pm
I wouldn't mind some quick comments on my bid list. They're due this evening by 11pm. I tried to mix safe with aggressive, and keeping in mind expected summer class sizes according to NALP. What to bid on is a little tricky - I'm a UCLA transfer student from Davis/Hastings. Better than Top 10% first year, going to try to write on to law review. Or join a journal.
Too aggressive? Too unfocused? I'm looking to get into corporate or general business litigation, but would like to be somewhere that does a mix of things, so I can change my mind if I find something I like better.
Number of estimated interview slots in parentheses. I kind of lost focus near the second half of the bid list. My hunch is those don't matter. But my hunches are sometimes wrong.
1) Manatt, Phelps & Phillips (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
2) Winston & Strawn LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (23)
3) Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (72)
4) Reed Smith LLP (18)
5) Latham & Watkins (Los Angeles, CA) (119)
6) Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (42)
7) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
8 ) O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P. (Los Angeles, CA)
9) Alston & Bird (Los Angeles, CA)
10) cooley llp (Palo Alto, CA) (all offices) (33)
11) proskauer rose llp (Los Angeles, CA) (29)
12) dla piper (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
13) Bingham McCutchen LLP (Santa Monica, CA) (28)
14) Bryan Cave LLP (Irvine, CA) (14)
15) Kirkland & Ellis (Los Angeles, CA) (54)
16) Rutan & Tucker, LLP (Costa Mesa, CA) (36)
17) Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (8 offices) (24)
18) White & Case LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (36)
19) Kirkland & Ellis (San Francisco, CA) (18)
20) sidley austin llp (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
21) venable llp ( Los Angeles, CA) (18)
22) Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
23) Irell & Manella LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (72)
24) Crowell & Moring LLP (Irvine, CA) (18)
25) Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
26) Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
27) Jenner & Block LLP (Los Angeles) (18)
28) troutman sanders llp (Irvine, CA) (18)
29) Foley & Lardner (Los Angeles, CA) (36)
30) Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. (Los Angeles, CA) (36)
31) Greenberg Traurig (Santa Monica, CA) (18)
32) Holland & Knight (Los Angeles, CA) (all offices) (18)
33) K&L Gates LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (12)
34) Ropes & Gray (San Francisco, CA)
35) downey brand llp (Sacramento, CA) (18)
36) Fenwick & West, LLP (Mountain View, CA) (18)
37) Dechert LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
38) Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (New York, NY) (18)
What should move up? What should move down? What should disappear completely?
Too aggressive? Too unfocused? I'm looking to get into corporate or general business litigation, but would like to be somewhere that does a mix of things, so I can change my mind if I find something I like better.
Number of estimated interview slots in parentheses. I kind of lost focus near the second half of the bid list. My hunch is those don't matter. But my hunches are sometimes wrong.
1) Manatt, Phelps & Phillips (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
2) Winston & Strawn LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (23)
3) Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (72)
4) Reed Smith LLP (18)
5) Latham & Watkins (Los Angeles, CA) (119)
6) Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (42)
7) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
8 ) O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P. (Los Angeles, CA)
9) Alston & Bird (Los Angeles, CA)
10) cooley llp (Palo Alto, CA) (all offices) (33)
11) proskauer rose llp (Los Angeles, CA) (29)
12) dla piper (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
13) Bingham McCutchen LLP (Santa Monica, CA) (28)
14) Bryan Cave LLP (Irvine, CA) (14)
15) Kirkland & Ellis (Los Angeles, CA) (54)
16) Rutan & Tucker, LLP (Costa Mesa, CA) (36)
17) Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (8 offices) (24)
18) White & Case LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (36)
19) Kirkland & Ellis (San Francisco, CA) (18)
20) sidley austin llp (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
21) venable llp ( Los Angeles, CA) (18)
22) Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
23) Irell & Manella LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (72)
24) Crowell & Moring LLP (Irvine, CA) (18)
25) Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
26) Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
27) Jenner & Block LLP (Los Angeles) (18)
28) troutman sanders llp (Irvine, CA) (18)
29) Foley & Lardner (Los Angeles, CA) (36)
30) Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. (Los Angeles, CA) (36)
31) Greenberg Traurig (Santa Monica, CA) (18)
32) Holland & Knight (Los Angeles, CA) (all offices) (18)
33) K&L Gates LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (12)
34) Ropes & Gray (San Francisco, CA)
35) downey brand llp (Sacramento, CA) (18)
36) Fenwick & West, LLP (Mountain View, CA) (18)
37) Dechert LLP (Los Angeles, CA) (18)
38) Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (New York, NY) (18)
What should move up? What should move down? What should disappear completely?