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- A. Nony Mouse
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
Interesting. Definitely a better change than the "we'll push it back 2 weeks" thing. I doubt it will convince anyone not currently following the plan to adopt it, though (since so many of them will have hired by June 28).
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
Woah, and a 100-judge limit per applicant? Also interesting. I definitely know people who went above 100 applications last year.
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
Yeah, I think people will just not apply through OSCAR, and send paper apps.Tangerine Gleam wrote:Woah, and a 100-judge limit per applicant? Also interesting. I definitely know people who went above 100 applications last year.
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
Agreed. I'm sure it will have a meaningful effect on the number of overall applications, though. Printing, packing, and shipping hundreds of applications is going to be a pain.
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- A. Nony Mouse
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
Yeah, although because it's rolling, and because when you withdraw an application your slot opens up again, and because hiring is so all over the place, time-wise, I'm not sure people will send out that many fewer apps - they'll just add more as they get rejected, that kind of thing. (Which goes against what I just said about more paper apps! Oh well. Who knows what will happen.)
(I did paper apps, but I don't think I made it up to triple digits. So it's a pain, but doable.)
(I did paper apps, but I don't think I made it up to triple digits. So it's a pain, but doable.)
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
The 100 limit is an ACTIVE limit, not a total limit. That means you can only have 100 applications active at any one time. If you withdraw an application or a judge marks a position as filled, that opens up a new spot. It's not a very meaningful limit.Tangerine Gleam wrote:Woah, and a 100-judge limit per applicant? Also interesting. I definitely know people who went above 100 applications last year.
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
Ohhhhh, OK. Nevermind.
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How are people planning on asking for time off work as an SA to do interviews? Any thoughts on this? I wasn't planning on telling my firm that I plan on pursuing a clerkship unless I was asked directly or got an offer...
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
And on that note, will judges schedule interviews when they know we're busy with our SA's? Or will they wait until August or September anyway?Anonymous User wrote:How are people planning on asking for time off work as an SA to do interviews? Any thoughts on this? I wasn't planning on telling my firm that I plan on pursuing a clerkship unless I was asked directly or got an offer...
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
Will vary by the judge, but I don't think they're going to worry about your SA schedule - keep in mind a lot of firms see clerking as a good thing. But I highly doubt judges are going to wait till August or September now that the plan has changed. Those following the plan interviewed in September because that was the first date they could interview, not because it doesn't conflict with anything else over the summer, and those not following the plan interviewed in the middle of SAs all the time.badaboom61 wrote:And on that note, will judges schedule interviews when they know we're busy with our SA's? Or will they wait until August or September anyway?Anonymous User wrote:How are people planning on asking for time off work as an SA to do interviews? Any thoughts on this? I wasn't planning on telling my firm that I plan on pursuing a clerkship unless I was asked directly or got an offer...
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Re: New Plan Date: June 28th
Your firm is willing to pay you a 50k bonus to go clerk for a year, I suspect they'll be okay with you taking off days as an SA to interview for clerkships.Anonymous User wrote:How are people planning on asking for time off work as an SA to do interviews? Any thoughts on this? I wasn't planning on telling my firm that I plan on pursuing a clerkship unless I was asked directly or got an offer...
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