UChicago OCI 2014 Forum

[Anonymous User]

anyone meet Debevoise on Friday heard back yet?

[Anonymous User]

Declined two Chicago offers today from last week. So I'm hoping they go to other people ITT.

What firms?

One is MW&E.

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[Neal Patrick Harris]

don't make him angry. you won't like him when he's angry

[Anonymous User]

I posted "declined" too early. I tried getting in touch with them all day. I'll post tomorrow when I actually speak to someone.

[Anonymous User]

I posted "declined" too early. I tried getting in touch with them all day. I'll post tomorrow when I actually speak to someone.

Foley Chicago

[Anonymous User]

Dpw NY ding, CB on the 8th

[Anonymous User]

Sidley ding by phone lol fuck my life. Cb was the 9th

[Anonymous User]

Sidley ding by phone lol fuck my life. Cb was the 9th

So they actually called and said, "we will not be extending you an offer?"

[Anonymous User]

Sidley ding by phone lol fuck my life. Cb was the 9th

So they actually called and said, "we will not be extending you an offer?"

haha she was really nice about it and i kinda appreciated not just getting the letter in the mail since i had a good rapport with her throughout the process. It was just like "I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news but XYZ because ABC, i hope our paths cross again soon though" etc... You win some you lose some though

[Anonymous User]

Dpw NY ding, CB on the 8th

Sorry to hear that. Mail or email?

[Anonymous User]

Dpw NY ding, CB on the 8th

Sorry to hear that. Mail or email?

email

[Anonymous User]

lol I just now got a CB invite for S&C... after already having accepted another offer elsewhere.

Also, I finally just got a pre-CB ding via email from Sheppard Mullin (NYC). I think I only have a couple more firms I have yet to hear from since OCI until I am completely done.

[Anonymous User]

Still no formal ding or cb from Latham Chicago lol.

Do any 3L's know if it's possible to get a Sidley/Kirkland offer from 3L OCI? I know some of the NYC firms will come for 3L's but i wasn't sure if the Chicago firms did the same.

[Anonymous User]

Someone mentioned earlier they already had an offer from Katten. Anyone know Katten's post-CB offer/ding method?

[Anonymous User]

Still no formal ding or cb from Latham Chicago lol.

Do any 3L's know if it's possible to get a Sidley/Kirkland offer from 3L OCI? I know some of the NYC firms will come for 3L's but i wasn't sure if the Chicago firms did the same.

Kirkland did some 3L mass mail CBs, not sure about Sidley probably the same. It's a lot better to go into that process with a 2L summer post SA offer though.

[Anonymous User]

Irell LA offer by phone, CB was Monday

[Anonymous User]

Still no formal ding or cb from Latham Chicago lol.

Do any 3L's know if it's possible to get a Sidley/Kirkland offer from 3L OCI? I know some of the NYC firms will come for 3L's but i wasn't sure if the Chicago firms did the same.

Kirkland did some 3L mass mail CBs, not sure about Sidley probably the same. It's a lot better to go into that process with a 2L summer post SA offer though.

oooh okay thanks. yeah I have some offers now, but i really wanted one of those two. Just wanted to see if it was possible to switch after the summer

[Anonymous User]

Someone mentioned earlier they already had an offer from Katten. Anyone know Katten's post-CB offer/ding method?

They ding via snail mail. Obviously I don't know how they offer

[Anonymous User]

Still no formal ding or cb from Latham Chicago lol.

Do any 3L's know if it's possible to get a Sidley/Kirkland offer from 3L OCI? I know some of the NYC firms will come for 3L's but i wasn't sure if the Chicago firms did the same.

Kirkland did 3L hiring for Corporate and Restructuring this year (two very busy areas at the firm). As far as I know, little/less 3L hiring for lit.

[Anonymous User]

Debevoise ding by email, cb was the 12th

[Anonymous User]

As things start to wrap up - maybe a good time to start posting results for the benefit of future classes? Was reading the HLS EIP thread where they're now posting results, and thought it'd be a good thing to add to ours.

For me (K&E/LR/2y WE):
NYC: 6/8 screener -> CB, 4/6 CB -> offer (two still outstanding)
DC: 5/15 screener -> CB, 3/4 CB -> offer (declined one CB)
CA: 4/6 screener -> CB, 1/4 CB -> offer (three still outstanding)
Other (Houston, Chicago): 1/2 screener -> CB (no results either way so far, but probably gonna be a ding)
Didn't mass-mail because lazy

Don't underestimate how hard DC is, future 2Ls. I got butchered even with the grades and a pretty good (I felt) story on why I wanted to be there. The summer classes are small and a lot of the other K&Es targeted it.

[Anonymous User]

LR (below K&E), Midwestern ties

CBs/Screeners
6/7 NY
5/10 Chicago
3/3 Secondary

Don't underestimate how tough Chicago is either. Many of the "less grade selective" firms have tiny class sizes and can be very picky with their CBs. In retrospect, I bid rather poorly in that regard.

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[Anonymous User]

If we're doing this, I think it would be helpful to post for each market not only the CB->Offer rate, but also screener -> CB rate. So, for example, if you did NYC:

New York:
OCI: 25 Screeners -> 8 Callbacks -> 5 Offers
Mass Mailing: 5000 mailed -> 4 Screeners -> 2 Callbacks -> 1 Offer

Am the DC/NY/LA anon from above. I meant screener -> CB, not CB -> offer, as those are still coming in. But I'll add that so far and update as things change. But I agree overall that both sets of info are most useful.