2011 GW OCI Thread Forum

[Anonymous User]

for WSGR, I'm assuming no one heard back for their DC office? ties to dc but said i wanted dc or ca office, now I feel like an idiot. hope to hear some news.

Nope. Interviewer said within a week. Today is one week.

This is the poster with CB in Palo Alto... I got a call last Wednesday from the interviewer (initials MF) saying that the Hiring Committee had met that afternoon to decide on callbacks. So, I have no way of knowing this for sure, but I sort of assume that they decided on all offices at the same time. Sorry...

Odd. I received an email yesterday from their national recruiter asking for my unofficial transcript. Wonder why if they had made all their decisions?

[Anonymous User]

for WSGR, I'm assuming no one heard back for their DC office? ties to dc but said i wanted dc or ca office, now I feel like an idiot. hope to hear some news.

Nope. Interviewer said within a week. Today is one week.

This is the poster with CB in Palo Alto... I got a call last Wednesday from the interviewer (initials MF) saying that the Hiring Committee had met that afternoon to decide on callbacks. So, I have no way of knowing this for sure, but I sort of assume that they decided on all offices at the same time. Sorry...

Odd. I received an email yesterday from their national recruiter asking for my unofficial transcript. Wonder why if they had made all their decisions?

Quoted anon here, and they may very well not have! I can't think of a reason why they would have asked for your transcript if they had already made their decision. Maybe they do decisions in waves or something, who knows. Or maybe they do it office-by-office, and D.C. takes longer since it's a smaller office. All we can really do is speculate and keep the faith, I guess.

[Anonymous User]

Someone who was in the hotel during the earthquake has to post what happened, I didn't have anything today but am SO curious . . . I probably would have started screaming in the middle of my interview and immediately been dinged for cowardice.

[Anonymous User]

just send the damn ding already...

[Anonymous User]

just send the damn ding already...

no news is good news.

[Anonymous User]

Kaye Scholer NY email ding.

[Anonymous User]

Kaye Scholer NY email ding.

Same here.

[Anonymous User]

Anyone hear from McKenna?

[Anonymous User]

McKenna CB on Friday; Bingham email ding.

Which McKenna schedule, litigation or gov't contracts (if you're willing to say)? Probably no difference, but just curious.

gov't contracts.

To answer the above question, this was from a few days ago.

[Anonymous User]

CB Fox Rothschild from Philly Regional

[Anonymous User]

Ropes & Gray CB

[Anonymous User]

CB Fox Rothschild from Philly Regional

Same.

[Anonymous User]

Any movement from Kaye Scholer DC? Supposedly they were planning on getting back to us about a week after the interviews.

[Anonymous User]

Ding today from McKenna (Gov Contracts) via snail mail.

[Anonymous User]

CB Drinker Biddle from Philly Regional

[KamaalTheAbstract]

CB Drinker Biddle from Philly Regional

Be sure to tell them about how good their apprenticeship model or whatever they're calling is. I didn't even know it existed until after my callback last year. Weird people over there though. And a stupid first year program where they end up paying you like 105k during the first year.

[Anonymous User]

When do we start assuming dings from last Tuesday and Wednesday's interviews? No news so far on TLS re: callbacks from so many of those early firms. I am still waiting to hear from seven of them. Assume ding, or are some DC firms just really slow?

I have trouble with accepting that they are just slow since my callbacks so far have come very quickly on the heels of my interviews.

[Anonymous User]

I've heard from 1 of 9 firms so far. That was a ding.

[Anonymous User]

Be sure to tell them about how good their apprenticeship model or whatever they're calling is.

Yup, made sure to talk about that during the initial screener.

And a stupid first year program where they end up paying you like 105k during the first year.

This sounds weird. Anymore info on that? Definitely sounds like a dealbreaker.

[KamaalTheAbstract]

Be sure to tell them about how good their apprenticeship model or whatever they're calling is.

Yup, made sure to talk about that during the initial screener.

And a stupid first year program where they end up paying you like 105k during the first year.

This sounds weird. Anymore info on that? Definitely sounds like a dealbreaker.

Something along the lines that they tout you have reduced billing requirements so you can take in your surroundings or some shit. But it also means you get paid less. I forget exactly what it is. Google search it and I'm sure something will come up. It definitely was a dealbreaker. I don't really trust firms that moved away from their traditional models during the recession in general.

Here it is

Salary of $130,000 to $145,000 firmwide; salary of $105,000 during first-year associate training program.

Kind of weird wording so I don't know what it comes out to. Just know its less than what you expected.

[Anonymous User]

Dinged by Crowell via e-mail.

[Anonymous User]

Anyone hear from Reed Smith from last Tuesday yet?

[Anonymous User]

Wondering if Vinson & Elkins made callbacks yet.

[Anonymous User]

Anyone hear from Reed Smith from last Tuesday yet?

No word from Reed Smith. Also nothing from Cooley (also Tuesday) or Baker Botts, Paul Hastings DC, Winston & Strawn, McKenna Long (all Wednesday).

Guessing ding letters are in the mail for all, but who knows.

[Anonymous User]

Anyone hear from more NY regional firms: Milbank Tweed, A&O, Seward Kissel?

I know a previous poster already heard from Linklaters.