You had me at "raising their billable requirement"

The way it was explained to me is that all firm work counts. My young associate friend's billables for the year basically just doubled. I'm not talking a few hours, I'm talking a several hundred hour jump over night for work that he had to do anyway. He described it as hitting the lottery, and he was doing pretty well with his hours for his class.

If that's true then that's crazy and now I'm more bummed than ever that I haven't got a Jenner CB yet.

I have a friend with offers at both Barack and Bartlit Beck—he turned both of them down upon learning about Jenner's new policy of allowing associates to work half as much for the same pay.

i hope he had an offer from Jenner then..

He didn't interview with them during OCI, but he figured that massmail chances with Jenner is better than a sure thing with Bartlit or Barack.

His billables doubled? That requires that he was working at least twice as many hours as he billed, or 4000 hours per year, or 13 hours per day, six days per week, with no vacation time or holidays. SIGN ME UP!!

doesn't sound like the best strategy ITE...

Kansas City Polsinelli CBs went out quickly, heard back in 3 days after screening. CB completed, but no offer (Yet?!) - anyone know how long they normally take to make offers? I think the KC class is larger, maybe 10+?

Some things that were said to me in my Heyl interview:
"When you walk into our firm, you're going to think 'Wow! There sure a lot of old white guys!'"
Some things about women not rising as frequently with the firm...
Some things about lack of a good work/life balance for women (in a small firm in Peoria? Really?)...

Maybe it was just my interviewers, but IMHO- sounds like a real winner.

You do realize that he may not have been on pace to bill 2000, right? And the follow up to that is, you do realize that "basically" would be what I call an estimation. The billable increase was quite significant.

They were probably just disappointed that they didn't work with Caruso.

lolci

Haha, ok, he's "only" working 3600 hours then. My bad. Where is the line to sign up again? There are probably several openings what with all the suicides and whatnot.

UIUC

Baker Daniels (Indy) Mass Mail CB.

stats?

Any Milwaukee firms movement?

Was this at a screener or CB? And if screener, where was this? At UIUC, I thought the interviewers actually seemed quite personable.

I interviewed with Caruso yesterday and didn't find him at all like you've described him here. Very laid back, very easy to talk to, and overall a pretty good guy. Lisa Watson actually asked the majority of the questions and probably spoke about twice as much as he did. I was expecting it to be a nutty interview, but it turned out to be very straightforward and uneventful. Definitely didn't live up to expectations.

U of Iowa - Ding from Nyemaster Goode via snail mail. Most awkward interview ever, so I was waiting for the ding. One guy was talking about how he concentrates his practice in one area, and I made a comment about how it must be rewarding to develop long-term relationships with certain clients. He responded with some rant about how at NYEMASTER they don't depend on just a few clients for business, and it's not like they are going to go out of business if they lose any one big client or anything. Listening comprehension fail.

3 dings in the mail today- Varnum and Mika Meyers Grand Rapids as well as Vedder Price. That makes me 0/6 at EIW so far. 10%/LR ND.

Were those call backs at Varnum/Mika Meyers, or screeners?

After screeners.

Are you kidding me???

My two friends at Jenner are scared shitless cause of this. They already make below market (remember Jenner only pays market for first years) and things are supposedly really slow.

+1... this kind of info isn't that helpful without stats