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smaug wrote:Y'all need to wash the WUSTL off of you and pick up on some social cues.

fkt18 wrote:Checking in! Bid list submitted, now let the mass mailing begin...

xael wrote:ok I don't like this and I don't like my bidlist it is scaring me

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Zuck is good people. Just more an on-topic poster.

rahulg91 wrote:

Pneumonia wrote:Houston is the biggest market in Texas by a long shot, and essentially the only market in Texas if you don't have ties here.

No.

Check out the NLJ Regional Report. Both Dallas and Houston have the around same number of NLJ 350 lawyers working in them. Targeting only Houston is silly. There's quite a few Dallas firms with large class sizes (Locke Lord, Haynes and Boone, Baker Botts, Thompson & Knight, etc.). Mass mail both.

fkt18 wrote:I don't have a timeline exactly, but I'm aiming to get all my mass mailing done by the end of the month since my EIW starts decently early in August. A lot of the offices I'm targeting have posted on my school's Symplicity so I can also follow their individual deadlines. Right now my biggest roadblock is editing my writing sample!

Does anyone else have a more specific timeline?

wiz wrote:

rahulg91 wrote:

Pneumonia wrote:Houston is the biggest market in Texas by a long shot, and essentially the only market in Texas if you don't have ties here.

No.

Check out the NLJ Regional Report. Both Dallas and Houston have the around same number of NLJ 350 lawyers working in them. Targeting only Houston is silly. There's quite a few Dallas firms with large class sizes (Locke Lord, Haynes and Boone, Baker Botts, Thompson & Knight, etc.). Mass mail both.

Stop giving horrible advice.

trebekismyhero wrote:

beepboopbeep wrote:

smaug wrote:

anyriotgirl wrote:Can we get some more thoughts on declaring interest in a specific practice area?

how specific is the practice area? do you have good reasons or just reasons?

I'm pretty sure I ended up with offer I ended up choosing because I had a conversation about a specific practice area with a partner who does that work—it can be a good thing.

But if you're saying something like appellate lit and you're not at the tippy top of your class, that could be a bad call.

If it's something like saying "I'm interested in Hedge Funds" to Sidley, I don't think that would be problematic.

actual attysfake attys should probably weigh in

the above is just based on people i know

Oh you wanted fake attorneys cool that's me, just a summer here

I had a similar experience as smog. Any time I expressed practice area interest it went over well. Just have to do your research and not be dumb about it. Maybe don't talk about doing telecom work or antitrust work or energy reg work at a firm that doesn't get any of that. Maybe only talk about cap markets if the office you're interviewing with only does cap markets. Maybe don't try to bullshit someone on their area of expertise if you know jackshit about it - at least get the lingo right, etc.

Firms definitely hide the ball on this stuff but it is figure-out-able. Possibly bullshittable but I'd imagine pretty easy to see through that from the other side of the desk.

Yeah, just a follow up. I am a summer as well, but I am 90% sure I got an offer at a firm that was above my grades because I said the practice area that I was interested in and that area happened to be super busy at the time.

Do a little digging and you can find out what areas are super busy at which firms. I have a couple fellow summers that said the same practice area and then switched after they got their offers.

Anonymous User wrote:anon:

I'm working in antitrust this summer. I'd stick to DC, personally, but keep NY in play too. Do you have the grades to make it here? Why afraid of leaving off SF? Pretty small/tough market.

ManoftheHour wrote:Honestly, I'm still a bit confused.

Let's say employers preselect 90% of the interviewees and the other 10% is lottery..

For the sake of argument, student A is #1 in the class and is a shoe in at firm X but doesn't bid on firm X. Does student A get an interview because he is preselected?

No right? Unless student A throws in even a low bid.