Columbia EIP 2014 Forum

[Anonymous User]

Fried Frank ding email

Interviewer?

AGL

[Anonymous User]

Paul Weiss ding, with a bizarre "please contact us again in the fall if you are interested in speaking with us about permanent employment after you graduate" caveat. Probably a typical form.

I can't help being surprised since I have offers or CB's from all the similarly selective firms and my PW interview wasn't particularly egregious. You can't win em all!

Interviewer?

[Anonymous User]

Have Freshfield dings gone out yet?

Just wish they'd put us out of our misery...

I think they are snail mailers.

[Anonymous User]

Paul Weiss ding, with a bizarre "please contact us again in the fall if you are interested in speaking with us about permanent employment after you graduate" caveat. Probably a typical form.

I can't help being surprised since I have offers or CB's from all the similarly selective firms and my PW interview wasn't particularly egregious. You can't win em all!

Interviewer?

WM

[Anonymous User]

has anyone heard from A&P DC with AL?

[Anonymous User]

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[Anonymous User]

Any CBs from MoFo LA?

[Anonymous User]

Any Cahill movement?

[Anonymous User]

White & Case (CW)

Any White & Case JB?

[Anonymous User]

anyone who went to a proskauer or schulte CB hear anything?

nothing from either so far

the latter said 2 weeks FWIW

My understanding is that the Proskauer hiring committee won't meet until next week.

[Anonymous User]

PW callback wednesday. No news today. previous post said they found out the next day. So much for that dream.

[Anonymous User]

PW callback wednesday. No news today. previous post said they found out the next day. So much for that dream.

they haven't even dinged me from my screener yet haha.

[Anonymous User]

any late wed afternoon DPW callbacks hear back yet?

[Anonymous User]

PW callback wednesday. No news today. previous post said they found out the next day. So much for that dream.

they haven't even dinged me from my screener yet haha.

exactly. silence= de facto ding

[Anonymous User]

PW callback wednesday. No news today. previous post said they found out the next day. So much for that dream.

they haven't even dinged me from my screener yet haha.

exactly. silence= de facto ding

yes I know.

[Anonymous User]

PW callback wednesday. No news today. previous post said they found out the next day. So much for that dream.

they haven't even dinged me from my screener yet haha.

exactly. silence= de facto ding

yes I know.

For screeners where CBs have gone out, yeah, but not for a callback just because you didn't hear the very next day. Give it whatever period they told you

[Anonymous User]

Does anyone know how long Cleary takes usually for offers?

[Anonymous User]

Does anyone know how long Cleary takes usually for offers?

Today at my cb they said that they tell people a week, but its often much quicker. Its basically when they are able to get the materials compiled from each of ur interviewers.

[Anonymous User]

Does anyone know how long Cleary takes usually for offers?

Today at my cb they said that they tell people a week, but its often much quicker. Its basically when they are able to get the materials compiled from each of ur interviewers.

How did you like your cb? (not sure if this is an appropriate question)

[Anonymous User]

PW callback wednesday. No news today. previous post said they found out the next day. So much for that dream.

Also had PW wednesday and have not heard.

[enibs]

What is the policy for canceling scheduled CBs once booked?

Let them know ASAP, so that they can give the spot to someone else. 48 hours notice is preferable, but 24 is required. Within 24, go on the callback.

Please, please, please do not follow the advice in the last sentence. If you conclude you would not under any circumstances accept an offer at a firm where you have a callback, cancel the callback even if it's two minutes before it's scheduled to start!

I assure you that no lawyer wants to interview you if there's no chance you'll accept an offer at their firm. They will be very grateful to you for cancelling. And no firm wants to give you an offer that you are certain to reject. And if you let the firm make you an offer that you are certain to reject, you may be taking an offer away from one of your classmates who would be happy to accept it.

Obviously it would be better to cancel with more notice. But no matter when it is, if you decide there's no chance that you'd accept an offer from the firm, cancel the callback. Please.

Sure. Don't follow the advice that I gave that I got directly from the recruiting people who have to schedule interviews. Burn those bridges. Who cares?

I mean no disrespect to "the recruiting people who have to schedule interviews" - they are generally lovely people and we rely on them to make the trains run on time. But trust me, if you ask any attorney involved in the process, they'll agree with me.

Now I will observe that if it's an out-of-town interview and you cancel after you've already flown into town, you'll have a hard time convincing the firm on whom you've cancelled to reimburse your travel expenses. So as a matter of your own self-interest, that may be a bad idea. But from the firm's perspective, they'd rather you cancel on short notice or no notice than to waste their lawyers' time by interviewing when you've already decided you wouldn't accept an offer from the firm even if you received one.

[Anonymous User]

Let them know ASAP, so that they can give the spot to someone else. 48 hours notice is preferable, but 24 is required. Within 24, go on the callback.

Please, please, please do not follow the advice in the last sentence. If you conclude you would not under any circumstances accept an offer at a firm where you have a callback, cancel the callback even if it's two minutes before it's scheduled to start!

I assure you that no lawyer wants to interview you if there's no chance you'll accept an offer at their firm. They will be very grateful to you for cancelling. And no firm wants to give you an offer that you are certain to reject. And if you let the firm make you an offer that you are certain to reject, you may be taking an offer away from one of your classmates who would be happy to accept it.

Obviously it would be better to cancel with more notice. But no matter when it is, if you decide there's no chance that you'd accept an offer from the firm, cancel the callback. Please.

Sure. Don't follow the advice that I gave that I got directly from the recruiting people who have to schedule interviews. Burn those bridges. Who cares?

I mean no disrespect to "the recruiting people who have to schedule interviews" - they are generally lovely people and we rely on them to make the trains run on time. But trust me, if you ask any attorney involved in the process, they'll agree with me.

Now I will observe that if it's an out-of-town interview and you cancel after you've already flown into town, you'll have a hard time convincing the firm on whom you've cancelled to reimburse your travel expenses. So as a matter of your own self-interest, that may be a bad idea. But from the firm's perspective, they'd rather you cancel on short notice or no notice than to waste their lawyers' time by interviewing when you've already decided you wouldn't accept an offer from the firm even if you received one.

If you're saying that you're not one to hold a grudge, that's awesome, but I've seen people hold grudges for less. I'd rather go to an interview I didn't want to go on than burn bridges, especially because people move around, and you never know.

[Anonymous User]

I have only 1 cb so far, but I haven't heard back from 16 firms yet, including 3 from last week. Also, based on the info here, most of the 16 firms have not contacted people yet, at least for my interviewers. Should I be worried? Or should I keep cool until say Wednesday next week?

[Anonymous User]

I have only 1 cb so far, but I haven't heard back from 16 firms yet, including 3 from last week. Also, based on the info here, most of the 16 firms have not contacted people yet, at least for my interviewers. Should I be worried? Or should I keep cool until say Wednesday next week?

I don't think you should be freaking out yet, but a lot of callbacks have gone out at this point even if they have not been posted here (not everybody who receives callbacks posts here, I sometimes don't). You should start mass-mailing and prepare for the worst case scenario.

[Anonymous User]

I have only 1 cb so far, but I haven't heard back from 16 firms yet, including 3 from last week. Also, based on the info here, most of the 16 firms have not contacted people yet, at least for my interviewers. Should I be worried? Or should I keep cool until say Wednesday next week?

I don't think you should be freaking out yet, but a lot of callbacks have gone out at this point even if they have not been posted here (not everybody who receives callbacks posts here, I sometimes don't). You should start mass-mailing and prepare for the worst case scenario.

This. You won't regret mailing regardless of what happens, and all you need is one to convert into an offer.

I've done alright in New York but horribly in the secondary market I grew up and went to school in, as in one CB out of 16-17 screeners at EIP. I got four CBs in that region from mailing hard to CLS alumni/people I had a vague connection with the week or two before EIP. If I get an offer over there, it'll be because of that.