UChicago OCI 2014 Forum

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[Anonymous User]

Ropes Chi CB… like 2 weeks after the screener.

[Anonymous User]

Winston & Strawn screener ding, email, just now. w/e bro

+1 (for Chicago), and they did it in the same douchey way as Schiff. Email with "Please see the attached letter regarding your candidacy at Winston & Strawn LLP." and then attached was a signed, scanned ding letter.

haha yes. my "letter" was literally three sentences long.

[20141023]

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[Anonymous User]

I love you reg.

Cleary DC offer by phone, CB was yesterday.

[Mal Reynolds]

I should have interviewed behind regulus. All of my answers could have been: at least I'm not that guy.

[Anonymous User]

STB Offer-- CB was yesterday (9/8)

[Anonymous User]

Is there a reason to try and "collect" offers? For example, can you use them to negotiate better terms like you can with acceptances during law school admissions? Or when you accept an offer to do an SA, do you basically just say "I accept" instead of trying to discuss salary, benefits (e.g., living stipends), etc.?

[skers]

lol. What firm is going to negotiate with some fungible, wet fart law student to come there for the summer? You might want to get a set of offers to evaluate, you know, where you'd like to work for 3-5 years at thousands and thousands of billable hours after law school. You can (and should) also be a fatass and hit up all the offer dinners.

[Anonymous User]

lol. What firm is going to negotiate with some fungible, wet fart law student to come there for the summer? You might want to get a set of offers to evaluate, you know, where you'd like to work for 3-5 years at thousands and thousands of billable hours after law school. You can (and should) also be a fatass and hit up all the offer dinners.

Yeah yeah that's what I figured but I just wanted to make sure I didn't not do something if it were a normal thing to do.

[Mal Reynolds]

Get them to bump your salary to 190!

[skers]

lol. What firm is going to negotiate with some fungible, wet fart law student to come there for the summer? You might want to get a set of offers to evaluate, you know, where you'd like to work for 3-5 years at thousands and thousands of billable hours after law school. You can (and should) also be a fatass and hit up all the offer dinners.

Yeah yeah that's what I figured but I just wanted to make sure I didn't not do something if it were a normal thing to do.

For reference: http://abovethelaw.com/2014/03/gunner-f ... questions/

[Anonymous User]

Skadden NY offer. 3 days 6 hours 40 minutes after CB

[skers]

Get them to bump your salary to 190!

Scared as fuck Debevoise recruiting committee--"this kid has a v15 offer! What can we do, offer some tote bags? Maybe a metropass?"

[20141023]

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[Crowing]

Perkins Coie (Seattle) pre-CB ding via email just now. I am pretty sure it is because I kept calling them "Coley" instead of "Coie" during my screener interview, and also because my answer to "Why Seattle?" was that I like rainy weather. Looking back on it, I probably shouldn't have picked up firms during open sign-ups simply because they were the only ones still open at that time.

Come on man Seattle isn't even rainy

[Anonymous User]

Dings from Sidley Palo Alto and Perkins Palo Alto/Seattle, via email.

[Anonymous User]

Paul Weiss offer about 15 mins ago. Callback last Thursday. One of the interviews went horribly, so I don't know how this happened.

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[WheninLaw]

Do you think a firm would care if I submit a receipt for a large pumpkin-cheesecake milkshake from Baskin Robbins?

No way. Go hog-wild!

[skers]

I expensed froyo.

[2014]

I had two $55 dinners one night and expensed them to different firms who were obnoxious about sharing costs. Expense everything no one cares.

[Anonymous User]

3L Here

Had lunch at the Palm, ordered $15 dollars of soft-pretzels at the airport, ordered salmon for breakfast via room service.

It doesn't matter what you get or how ridiculous it is as long as you stay under budget.

I think some firms give you numbers to demonstrate an example of what's reasonable. I forgot what it was--if someone has it, it'd probably help to share.

Generally--expense everything.

[Anonymous User]

3L Here

Had lunch at the Palm, ordered $15 dollars of soft-pretzels at the airport, ordered salmon for breakfast via room service.

It doesn't matter what you get or how ridiculous it is as long as you stay under budget.

I think some firms give you numbers to demonstrate an example of what's reasonable. I forgot what it was--if someone has it, it'd probably help to share.

Generally--expense everything.

I took CTA to and from the interview--NALP form for the $5?!

[Anonymous User]

STB Offer-- CB was yesterday (9/8)

Same here.