Anonymous User wrote:Would appreciate any last minute tips. I think I selected a good mix of firms, but I'm not really sure about the ordering (and may have missed some that I should be bidding on), so they're basically just ordered by amount of interviews divided by amount of bids from last year. I'm right at median, non-URM, secondary journal, no work experience, leaning towards litigation and labor/employment law, but not 100% set on it or anything.
1. Proskauer Rose
2. Shearman & Sterling
3. Sidley Austin
4. Arnold Porter
5. Kirkland & Ellis
6. Morrison & Foerster
7. Mayer Brown
8. Hogan Lovells
9. Gibson Dunn
10. Wilmerhale
11. Ropes & Gray
12. Paul Hastings
13. Jones Day
14. Kaye Scholer
15. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
16. White & Case
17. Morgan Lewis & Bockius
18. Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
19. Weil Gotshal & Manges
20. Holland & Knight
21. Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman
22. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
23. Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
24. Davis Polk & Wardwell
25. Chadbourne & Parke
26. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
27. Cahill Gordon & Reindel
28. Schulte Roth & Zabel
29. Dechert
30. Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Thanks!
-Stan Rizzo
Hey Stan!
Your comparative rankings (like, one firm to another) look good, but I think you're targeting too many bid-competitive firms. As it stands I don't know if you'd have much of a shot at anything below a certain mark because most of the firms you're bidding on are highly sought after.
Maybe you should pick some of the firms you really want from your top twenty, remove some of the others and shift everything up. (and then fill in the bottom with less popular firms) Doing so might help you pick up some more interviews.
-Ted "Theodore" Logan