UChicago OCI 2016 Forum

[Anonymous User]

Got a Gibson LA Callback on Friday (8/12)

Got a Skadden LA Callback this morning Saturday (8/13)

I told employers that I'm interested in litigation fwiw

[Anonymous User]

Ropes SF call back

[Emma.]

Writing thank you notes for screeners is insane. You have too many and it's not going to make the difference. I still thinkthey are unnecessary at the callback stage, but there isn't 100% agreement on this point.

[Anonymous User]

Anything from Norton Rose Fulbright?

[Anonymous User]

Anything from Norton Rose Fulbright?

Screener & invited for dinner, no CB no ding

[Anonymous User]

A&O NY CB via email.

[skers]

Writing thank you notes for screeners is insane. You have too many and it's not going to make the difference. I still thinkthey are unnecessary at the callback stage, but there isn't 100% agreement on this point.

The decision on a candidate is usually made before the thank you note even arrives, or often even mailed. I got a thank you note last week from an interviewee a couple hours after I got the email she'd received her offer.

[Anonymous User]

Hey everyone, I'm wondering if I should be worried yet.

I'm primarily targeting LA, I have a 179 GPA, leaning litigation, I've felt that the screeners have all gone well, but I haven't gotten any LA callbacks yet. Besides one ding at Mayer Brown, it's been total radio silence.

[Eldon Tyrell]

No dings is better than dings. Plus you're still in the normal range of callback response time for California firms, especially for your Thursday and Friday interviews. Just keep chugging.

Do you have any feel for how your interviews are going? Have the attorneys responded better or worse to some of your answers? Do you have ties to California? Have you been selling why you want to be there and why the practice areas you're interested in work with that firm?

[Anonymous User]

Ropes & Gray New York CB this afternoon (phone call, then email)

[titusandronicus]

Writing thank you notes for screeners is insane. You have too many and it's not going to make the difference. I still thinkthey are unnecessary at the callback stage, but there isn't 100% agreement on this point.

The decision on a candidate is usually made before the thank you note even arrives, or often even mailed. I got a thank you note last week from an interviewee a couple hours after I got the email she'd received her offer.

I think we can agree that a thank you note is unlikely to be the difference between a callback and a ding. Nevertheless, it isn't "only for your own edification." It's just a nice thing to do. Sometimes it's ok to do things that are nice even when you get no tangible benefit from doing so.

[Anonymous User]

Anything from Skadden LA?

[Anonymous User]

Ropes & Gray CB this afternoon (phone call, then email)

Which office?

[Anonymous User]

Ropes & Gray CB this afternoon (phone call, then email)

Which office?

New York

[Anonymous User]

anyone heard from Shearman NY?

[Anonymous User]

Still too early to be worried about not hearing back from Chi offices for last week's interviews? I didn't think Chi took this long

[WheninLaw]

Hey everyone, I'm wondering if I should be worried yet.

I'm primarily targeting LA, I have a 179 GPA, leaning litigation, I've felt that the screeners have all gone well, but I haven't gotten any LA callbacks yet. Besides one ding at Mayer Brown, it's been total radio silence.

I would start to feel some concern, but not panic. Your GPA is good, but not good enough that you'll get on-the-spot CB offers. I think you'll get a few bites soon.

[Anonymous User]

Ropes & Gray CB this afternoon (phone call, then email)

Which office?

New York

Got a Ropes & Gray CB for Chicago in this same way

[Anonymous User]

Skadden Chi. CB this am (SR) initials.

[Anonymous User]

Skadden Chi. CB this am (SR) initials.

[Anonymous User]

Skadden Chicago CB +1
Interviewer: FP

[Anonymous User]

Shearman ding via email

[daedalus2309]

Is taking a CB on a Saturday in any way bad or worse than taking a weekday? I can do a Saturday this weekend or a weekday two weeks from now and I'd rather move quickly than slowly.

[Eldon Tyrell]

100% do Saturday.

[daedalus2309]

100% do Saturday.

Thanks for this and for all your help generally on this thread.