Anonymous User wrote:Three questions for the grown-ups:
1. When a firm has a single entry in Symplicity with multiple offices listed under that entry, does each office take up its own spot on a bid list? E.g. If Jagoff, Asshole & Douche is interviewing for NY, DC, Miami, and Anchorage, and I want to work in Anchorage, can I bid that at the bottom due to low demand for Anchorage, or will I have to bid higher to account for all the people that want to work for Jagoff's NY office?
2.Along similar lines, and dependent on the answer to the question above, do people have any idea of where firms go in the bidding when they don't break out their schedules by office and their offices might vary dramatically in demand? Places like Boies Schiller (11 offices from Hollywood to Armonk), Gibson Dunn (8 offices from DC to Dallas), Mayer Brown (Chicago and Charlotte on the same schedule)
3. Do people have some insight into where the elite DC firms went in the bidding last year? I'm talking Williams & Connolly, Covington, WilmerHale etc...
1. It's the same attorneys doing the interviews for all of the offices, and they have a fixed number of slots regardless of the locations people are interested in. If your example firm had 20 slots, it's possible that all 20 of them would go to people who bid it top 10 for NY. If a firm has a Chicago office, it won't be around at the bottom of the bidlist, even if the other location is Bumfuck, Nowhere.
2. See #1. The more offices a firm has listed the faster it goes generally, unless those offices are all smaller secondary markets. If a firm has multiple offices in major markets listed together, it's going to go really early.
3. Pretty low, I think, but hopefully someone else can give you more precise information. I know some DC firms (I recall Latham specifically) were available off the signup sheet.
