Remove for sure: Arnold & Porter, WilmerHale DCAnonymous User wrote:I'll go ahead and post my bid list to be critiqued. Strong ties to DC, plan on bidding DC/NYC exclusively. Also mass-mailing a secondary market I have ties to as well and have already lined up some pre-OGI callbacks there. GPA is 3.49, I'm not K-JD but have just one year of non-prestigious work experience between UG and law school. SA at a regional firm this summer.
1. Arent Fox DC
2. Kirkland & Ellis NYC
3. Akin Gump DC
4. Hogan Lovells DC
5. Skadden NYC
6. Venable DC
7. Schulte Roth NYC
8. Arnold & Porter DC
9. Davis Polk NYC
10. Fried Frank NYC
11. Gibson Dunn DC
12. Proskauer Rose NYC
13. White & Case NYC
14. Latham & Watkins NYC
15. WilmerHale DC
16. Baker Botts DC
17. Ropes & Gray NYC
18. K&L Gates DC
19. Dechert DC
20. Simpson Thacher NYC
21. Jones Day DC
22. Shearman & Sterling NYC
23. Weil Gotshall & Manges NYC
24. Debevoise & Plimpton NYC
25. Crowell & Moring DC
26. Wilkie Farr & Gallagher NYC
27. Sidley Austin NYC
28. Cahill Gordon NYC
29. Cleary Gottlieb NYC
30. Nelson Mullins DC
31. King & Spalding DC
32. Cadwalader NYC
33. Wiley Rein DC
34. Sutherland DC
35. Milbank NYC
36. Paul Weiss NYC
37. Clifford Chance NYC
38. Steptoe & Johnson DC
39. Pillsbury DC
40. Goodwin Procter DC
41. Winston & Strawn DC
42. Paul Hastings NYC
43. Bingham McCutchen DC
44. Holland & Knight DC
45. Wilson Sonsini DC
46. Allen & Overy NYC
47. Baker Hostetler DC
48. Hollingsworth DC
49. Sheppard Mullin DC
50. Cooley DC
Hail Marys: Hogan DC, Jones Day DC, Wiley Rein DC, Gibson DC (tempted to put this in "remove for sure")
Long shots: Steptoe DC, DPW NY, Simpson NY, PW NY, Kirkland NY, Ropes NY
There are also a number of small offices on this list that I don't feel like are the wisest use of a bid, but I wasn't going to categorize them in the above buckets because I don't think they're unlikely as a matter of your grades, I think they're unlikely as a matter of sheer numbers (lots of applicants, few positions).
Also, understand that "strong ties to DC" isn't worth much--if anything--if you don't have the grades. This is NOT true for many secondary markets, but DC isn't "many secondary markets."